I have to correct you on a lot of things you clearly don’t know anything about music. They’re not trying to hide anything. The fact that country music tries to box artist into one it’s just crazy. The style of music is obviously pop, which is what they were trying to go for on the album. Also, it’s pop country. If you want to add to it, they’re not trying to hide the fact that this is a pop album, which is perfectly fine with me.
As someone who grew up riding shotgun of the pickup with my dad and grandfather I hate the current state of country music and find it hilarious how it's considered "racist" just look at Charley Pride who's one of the best country icons from the'70s or Neal McCoy who had multiple hits in the '90s. We also have Stoney Edwards, Howdy Glenn, Darrius Rucker who was massive for the genre in the 2010s and even Ray Charles who was accepted and collaborated with Willie Nelson for one of the most popular country songs ever.
Well my spotify auto-generated country list includes Noah Kahan so who am I to argue? More seriously I think the instrumentation on Stick Season is a big part of what makes it such a strong album but still solidly folk more than anything else. There are moments when it gets close, from some of the banjo or bass lines or an occasional yowl in his voice. That said the auto picks Spotify selects work really well in between a random Tyler Childers or Turnpike Troubadours track so I'm not losing sleep over it.
& why are we still talking about the popularity of Oliva Rodrigo. You know that There’s beef going on with her & Taylor Swift on Nuemous situations…1.)both Taylor Swift & Oliva Rodrigo hated each other(over plagiarism) 2.) some Taylor Swift fans like some Oliva Rodrigo music but again Oliva Rodrigo fans are trying to break records By telling Swifties to not only listen to a artist that’s been around for 17 years versus a artists that’s been around for not even 5 years..having multiple resources for these 14-21 years olds listen to music that’s sounds horrible. I mean Oliva Rodrigo is even worse than Ariana Grande(but Ariana Grande has been my favorite since 2014) there’s a lot of people swapped fanbase from Swifties to Oliva Rodrigo fanbase over commercial success & it just sounds like we will have bigger problems in the future for when anyone is trying to win Grammys & other awards becuase Oliva Rodrigo sings about midlife crisis & too many people are going to think one day that Taylor Swift will go away someday & Oliva Rodrigo will be famous in which it’s not true you have people stealing one fan base to the next so that the other artist records would decrease & they are doing this because other people think Taylor Swift is overrated with success. In which it’s hypocritical because almost the whole world loves Taylor swift & selling out arenas so people are going to tell me that we have to listen to more of the same music for every half hour on the radio because they are doing all of this for money. I don’t listen to wannabes
100% dude, so I’ll be honest I learned about Morgan wallen when whisky glasses would always play in NY on 94.7, but then I did listen to the dangerous album front to back multiple times so I kind of became a fan right BEFORE I could of been considered a “casual” and I understand exactly what you are saying. No songs on the new album really hits like “865”, “neon eyes”, “seven summers” etc lot of hits. This new album was forgettable as fuck lol
Red is the best album of all the albums she has been part of i really enjoyed all the songs and i still remember back in 2012 me and my crush use to listen to her songs in MP3 player. ahhh those days man amazing life
As a black American who likes genuine country music, the TV series sounds like window-dressing from people who see change as an inconveniece. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I listened to this album the other day, and it is EASILY the absolute WORST album I've ever listened to, and THAT'S saying something. I did NOT have the high ground listening to this
I think it’s funny how he described it as a focus group and that big loud would make more rap and hip hop inspired music, and then big loud has Charles Wesley Godwin making family ties
Although I 100% get where you're coming from with all this, but I think there's a key difference between genre as intended, and what people consider to be in what genre. You can look at genre as a marketing analyst and say 'we want to appeal to these people so we're going to market ourselves like this and sound like that', but that's not all that music is. Prime example, the lead singer of The 1975, Matty Healy, has cited in several interviews that 'country' is at the core of a lot of their music. Sure, it's a massive reach, but subjectively, there is an argument to be made that there are country roots in their music. Would you market The 1975 as country? Of course not, but could you include a handful of their ballads in a country playlist? Absolutely, because those same sounds sonically scratch the same itch. Conversely, the members of My Chemical Romance kept adamantly insisting that they weren't 'emo' and and wanted nothing to do with the genre, but most fans consider the band at the forefront of that genre. What I'm trying to say is it's hard to draw straight lines in art and plug everything into a specific box because at the end of the day, it's not up to any one person what defines each genre, especially in a genre that's so wide reaching as country.
Wallen just has a good voice, but his music melodies are generic and weak and his lyrics are elementary. Zach's stuff is way deeper than Wallen could ever dream to be.
The black and white photo you that you show 100 times in the video is eric church. Not Walker Hayes. I cannot stand Walker Hayes and I had to go see him live. It was terrible. But get your stuff right in your video if you are gonna talk Sh!!t about someone.
