...epitomized by the controversial track "Try That In A Small Town," which surged to the top of mainstream charts as critics argued it promotes violence.
"Don't come here and try to burn our shit down." REEEEE, calls to violence!
Morris...released two new tracks...both of which address her fraught relationship with Nashville since she became outspoken about the lack of diversity and inclusivity in the genre.
Oh, do fuck right off.
Morris' outspoken support for gender-affirming healthcare and addressing the lack of LGBTQ+ representation in country...
Darrius Rucker was/is pretty popular too. And while kind of niche, Cowboy Troy at least had a respectable following.
It is a lot like Black people in Metal. Its not that they are actively discriminated against, and they will even be popular. It is just that, due to the demographics of where it is popular, they are typically outnumbered by White people.
Exactly. People don’t understand this. Same goes for hobbies that appeal to more men than women or vice versa. I like Rucker and Chicken with the Train wasn’t bad. There was a black lady who sang country I liked until after the Floyd riots all of a sudden she couldn’t shut up about race when she never mentioned it before so I stopped listening to her. But like you said mostly whites listen to country and that is fine. I love old country and blues and it’s interesting to see how each influenced each other
Same goes for hobbies that appeal to more men than women or vice versa.
I wish it was this consistent. They don't give a shit if it's a female-dominated interest/career and such. In fact it's a good thing, and any men joining is something that must be stopped. Same goes for the racial thing; "black spaces" and all that. The less white people and men you have, the more Diverse™ you are.
True. I meant that it’s a fact that certain things appeal to more men than women but like you said if something appeals to men it’s a bad thing. Same with the race thing. I got downvoted on Reddit a while back for questioning the obsession with diversity in sci-fi/fantasy books. Not that many black people read them so I wondered why the need to bend over backwards. But you are right about what diversity means. The drop in entertainment should be enough reason to stop hiring activists
Yup. Frozen Crown comes to mind, which had a black and female guitarist. She wasn't lynched or otherwise driven from the metal scene. She must have just slipped through the cracks, I suppose, because obviously metal must be really racist and icky, right? I looked it up, she went on to join Angus McSix, too.
Yeah, and she is just as good in McSix as she was in Frozen Crown. If I had to guess, much like most members of Angus McSix, she joined because she wanted a band that wasnt going to tour a lot so she could have more home time.
Yeah, when I looked her up, it seems she's focusing on "content creation" and teaching music. Doesn't surprise me that she'd want to not tour a lot; that can be incredibly stressful.
Nobody in the industry makes that style of country anymore. I'd say it should make a comeback, but Nashville's certainly captured and won't try to sell anything that doesn't abuse the senses.
That guy who went viral because of "Rich Man North of Richmond" is a throwback. I think Sturgill Simpson, though a bit weird lyrically, has that old-time country feel. Dwight Yoakam was a really good traditional Country-Western guy in the Buck Owens/Bakersfield groove. but I don't think he's performing or recording anymore.
I hope more will understand that the "Richmond" guy is good, not only for his working-man lyrics, but for his old-timey sound. His dobro playing is OK (good enough for folk music).
I saw this and was very happy. I swear since 2016 it seems that people enter hobbies, music, entertainment with the sole intention of crapping on the fans. Stop trying to be inclusive country music!!! If someone is interested they will pursue it! My favorite country singer of all time is Hank Sr but Charlie Pride is one of my favorites and he grew up listening to it and didn’t get into country music because of some stupid diversity agenda.
I’m out of the loop with newer country but I’ll happily support those who don’t hate the audience and actually want to play country. Now I’m off to listen to some George Jones
I swear since 2016 it seems that people enter hobbies, music, entertainment with the sole intention of crapping on the fans
Nah, its older than that. The entire "fake geek girls" discussion in the 2000s was the same thing, girls entering the hobby to feel special and then shitting on anyone in said hobby for being a nerd. And that was just a single area.
But recently, its being done much more deliberately and with malice across all fields to destroy things "wrongthinkers" like.
That's why Lil Nas X was promoted to a name people know, despite that nobody gave a shit about him until he was able to be a gay Satanic "country" star for a single song. Its why Nascar was such a hotbed of removing every single form of iconography that its fanbase might have. Its why everything from your childhood is being remade with perverted warping built into the theme, with no care taken to make it good as long as it can piss you off.
Its never about "reaching larger fans." Its always about destroying what other people loved to demoralize them through constant browbeating.
Its never about "reaching larger fans." Its always about destroying what other people loved to demoralize them through constant browbeating.
It's kind of the same thing. If you want to appeal to everyone, then you can't allow anyone to have a niche. Each thing must be interchangeable. There must be nothing beyond the smallest possible visual differences between on base cultural unit and the next. That is the only way for something to be accessible to everyone.
As such, the powers that be in an industry will seek to "expand their reach" but will hit diminishing returns, cutting off their revenue. Growing in size past a certain point means the entire point of your growth is to fund what you've already grown past, making it inevitable that you will collapse. You start having to try and drag the audience with you, even through no one is asking for it. Those who resist need to be socially slandered, and those who are obedient need to be socially uplifted (I literally had a friend who was a Star Wars fan tell me that The Last Jedi was great because of how the writers explicitly threw away all of the fan theories and expectations). In order to expand as far as possible, you have to start attacking your own fans because they are becoming an impediment to your expansion, which you can't survive without because you've become to large and unwieldy.
If you want to appeal to everyone, then you can't allow anyone to have a niche.
In reality it's the opposite. The laws of physics do not permit "equity". You can never please everyone with one thing, but if you want more people to feel happy and included in something, you create as many niches as possible. As your company hits market saturation, you branch off and expand to new markets while also producing products exclusively for the old market. They are no longer doing that. This is how we know the industry is either retarded or only cares about demoralizing White men.
It’s from an album in the mid 90s called Rhythm Country and Blues and they combined country stars with o R&B singers for duets. George Jones and BB King was a good duet. Also the guy from Sam and Dave (Soulman) sang a duet with Conway Twitty. Rainy Night in Georgia.
Also there is a great Ray Charles album called Friendship from 84 and he does duets with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Oak Ridge Boys, and Hank Jr
"Don't come here and try to burn our shit down." REEEEE, calls to violence!
Oh, do fuck right off.
Ugh, these people are absolutely insufferable.
How many rap songs are about violence? How much violence has been cultivated by the culture rap creates?
Yet one country song about small towns defending themselves against that kind of shit is the one that gets branded violent.
Country music is not the genre killing blacks.
Acknowledging this would require them to have principles or actual standards.
Even high double digits.
But "Kill the Boer" is just a song, bro
Country had diversity ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnDR3w7IH44
And he had legit respect in the industry because he had an honest love for the music. Great song
Darrius Rucker was/is pretty popular too. And while kind of niche, Cowboy Troy at least had a respectable following.
It is a lot like Black people in Metal. Its not that they are actively discriminated against, and they will even be popular. It is just that, due to the demographics of where it is popular, they are typically outnumbered by White people.
Exactly. People don’t understand this. Same goes for hobbies that appeal to more men than women or vice versa. I like Rucker and Chicken with the Train wasn’t bad. There was a black lady who sang country I liked until after the Floyd riots all of a sudden she couldn’t shut up about race when she never mentioned it before so I stopped listening to her. But like you said mostly whites listen to country and that is fine. I love old country and blues and it’s interesting to see how each influenced each other
I wish it was this consistent. They don't give a shit if it's a female-dominated interest/career and such. In fact it's a good thing, and any men joining is something that must be stopped. Same goes for the racial thing; "black spaces" and all that. The less white people and men you have, the more Diverse™ you are.
True. I meant that it’s a fact that certain things appeal to more men than women but like you said if something appeals to men it’s a bad thing. Same with the race thing. I got downvoted on Reddit a while back for questioning the obsession with diversity in sci-fi/fantasy books. Not that many black people read them so I wondered why the need to bend over backwards. But you are right about what diversity means. The drop in entertainment should be enough reason to stop hiring activists
It must be weird for you; how often do you get called a Larry Elder-style black Hwite supremacist, just because you don't toe the progressive line?
Yup. Frozen Crown comes to mind, which had a black and female guitarist. She wasn't lynched or otherwise driven from the metal scene. She must have just slipped through the cracks, I suppose, because obviously metal must be really racist and icky, right? I looked it up, she went on to join Angus McSix, too.
Yeah, and she is just as good in McSix as she was in Frozen Crown. If I had to guess, much like most members of Angus McSix, she joined because she wanted a band that wasnt going to tour a lot so she could have more home time.
Yeah, when I looked her up, it seems she's focusing on "content creation" and teaching music. Doesn't surprise me that she'd want to not tour a lot; that can be incredibly stressful.
Nobody in the industry makes that style of country anymore. I'd say it should make a comeback, but Nashville's certainly captured and won't try to sell anything that doesn't abuse the senses.
That guy who went viral because of "Rich Man North of Richmond" is a throwback. I think Sturgill Simpson, though a bit weird lyrically, has that old-time country feel. Dwight Yoakam was a really good traditional Country-Western guy in the Buck Owens/Bakersfield groove. but I don't think he's performing or recording anymore.
I hope more will understand that the "Richmond" guy is good, not only for his working-man lyrics, but for his old-timey sound. His dobro playing is OK (good enough for folk music).
My fave is "Louisiana Man." Of course "Kiss an Angel Good Morning," his biggest hit, is great as well.
Diversity, shmeversity. If it's good, it's good.
His live version of Kaw-Liga is amazingly good.
Your speech is violence, their violence is speech.
I saw this and was very happy. I swear since 2016 it seems that people enter hobbies, music, entertainment with the sole intention of crapping on the fans. Stop trying to be inclusive country music!!! If someone is interested they will pursue it! My favorite country singer of all time is Hank Sr but Charlie Pride is one of my favorites and he grew up listening to it and didn’t get into country music because of some stupid diversity agenda.
I’m out of the loop with newer country but I’ll happily support those who don’t hate the audience and actually want to play country. Now I’m off to listen to some George Jones
Nah, its older than that. The entire "fake geek girls" discussion in the 2000s was the same thing, girls entering the hobby to feel special and then shitting on anyone in said hobby for being a nerd. And that was just a single area.
But recently, its being done much more deliberately and with malice across all fields to destroy things "wrongthinkers" like.
That's why Lil Nas X was promoted to a name people know, despite that nobody gave a shit about him until he was able to be a gay Satanic "country" star for a single song. Its why Nascar was such a hotbed of removing every single form of iconography that its fanbase might have. Its why everything from your childhood is being remade with perverted warping built into the theme, with no care taken to make it good as long as it can piss you off.
Its never about "reaching larger fans." Its always about destroying what other people loved to demoralize them through constant browbeating.
It's kind of the same thing. If you want to appeal to everyone, then you can't allow anyone to have a niche. Each thing must be interchangeable. There must be nothing beyond the smallest possible visual differences between on base cultural unit and the next. That is the only way for something to be accessible to everyone.
As such, the powers that be in an industry will seek to "expand their reach" but will hit diminishing returns, cutting off their revenue. Growing in size past a certain point means the entire point of your growth is to fund what you've already grown past, making it inevitable that you will collapse. You start having to try and drag the audience with you, even through no one is asking for it. Those who resist need to be socially slandered, and those who are obedient need to be socially uplifted (I literally had a friend who was a Star Wars fan tell me that The Last Jedi was great because of how the writers explicitly threw away all of the fan theories and expectations). In order to expand as far as possible, you have to start attacking your own fans because they are becoming an impediment to your expansion, which you can't survive without because you've become to large and unwieldy.
In reality it's the opposite. The laws of physics do not permit "equity". You can never please everyone with one thing, but if you want more people to feel happy and included in something, you create as many niches as possible. As your company hits market saturation, you branch off and expand to new markets while also producing products exclusively for the old market. They are no longer doing that. This is how we know the industry is either retarded or only cares about demoralizing White men.
True. I guess I just didn’t notice outside of the occasional whiny feminist complaining about comic books
Right on! Just yesterday I spun "Why Baby Why." One of my all-time favorites.
Cool! My favorite of his would be He Stopped Loving Her. Also if you have the time check out a duet of George Jones and BB King singing Patches
Holy crap! That I've got to hear.
It’s from an album in the mid 90s called Rhythm Country and Blues and they combined country stars with o R&B singers for duets. George Jones and BB King was a good duet. Also the guy from Sam and Dave (Soulman) sang a duet with Conway Twitty. Rainy Night in Georgia.
I'll look for this, thanks.
Also there is a great Ray Charles album called Friendship from 84 and he does duets with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Oak Ridge Boys, and Hank Jr
Literally who?
What do the 90+ comments say?
I’m getting so sick of how country music keeps crapping on its fans