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April 11, 2013, 02:44:33 PM
Watched a touch of the ACM Awards and I swear I neither saw nor heard ANY Country music.  The Award winners that I caught news clips of are no more Country than the man in the moon.

So tell me, when did the definition of Country music become simply talking/singing with an outrageously exaggerated accent and/or wearing cowboy boots/hat and pegged jeans/t-shirt blah, blah, blah...

All I see is a bunch of fakes doing 50's, 60's, and 70's rock and roll badly while singing with a t-wa-ang.

Phooey!!!
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Henry Hawk

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April 11, 2013, 03:07:21 PM
It HAS changed, THAT is for sure.  IMO, it is all about "looks".  Voice and talent is secondary.
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followsthewolf

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April 11, 2013, 03:28:21 PM
Quote from: Y on April 11, 2013, 02:44:33 PM
Watched a touch of the ACM Awards and I swear I neither saw nor heard ANY Country music.  The Award winners that I caught news clips of are no more Country than the man in the moon.

So tell me, when did the definition of Country music become simply talking/singing with an outrageously exaggerated accent and/or wearing cowboy boots/hat and pegged jeans/t-shirt blah, blah, blah...

All I see is a bunch of fakes doing 50's, 60's, and 70's rock and roll badly while singing with a t-wa-ang.

Phooey!!!

Amen, brother.
Ignorance and fanaticism are ravenous. They require constant feeding.

Y

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April 11, 2013, 04:16:35 PM
Quote from: Henry Hawk on April 11, 2013, 03:07:21 PM
It HAS changed, THAT is for sure.  IMO, it is all about "looks".  Voice and talent is secondary.

That's it.  Creativity, ability, and experience mean nothing.  Being a viable product they can 'market' to their niche demographics - such as 14 y.o. girls - is everything.  Matter of fact, the industry prefers to have the lowest common denominator because then if the 'product' becomes stale or unusable then they can just shuffle in another no-talent version of the product to market to us po' consumers.

I hate being nothing more than cog in the great American capitalist marketing machine!   :mad:
©  Whamma-Jamma - all rights reserved

Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.  ;)

"You've probably noticed that opinion pollsters go out of their way to include as many morons as possible in surveys ... I think it's dangerous to inform morons about what their fellow morons are thinking. It only reinforces their opinions. And the one thing worse than a moron with an opinion is lots of them." -- Scott Adams

In other words: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  ;)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

"Hitler is gone, but if the majority of our fellow citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue." -- S. I. Hayakawa

Y

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April 11, 2013, 04:17:15 PM
©  Whamma-Jamma - all rights reserved

Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.  ;)

"You've probably noticed that opinion pollsters go out of their way to include as many morons as possible in surveys ... I think it's dangerous to inform morons about what their fellow morons are thinking. It only reinforces their opinions. And the one thing worse than a moron with an opinion is lots of them." -- Scott Adams

In other words: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  ;)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

"Hitler is gone, but if the majority of our fellow citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue." -- S. I. Hayakawa
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