“I want to thank country music for making my dreams come true,” Combs said, dedicating the award to his wife and newborn child. His win came after a performance-packed three hour show that honored country icons and new voices.
LIST OF WINNERS HERE on the off chance you're interested
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I've never even heard of most of the 'artists' mentioned here, and the only ones I've ever heard sing is Chris Stapleton and Alan Jackson.
I am pretty sure most of them do not know who Hank Williams or Merle Haggard were. Minnie Pearl? Grand Ole Oprey or Hee Haw? Cowboy boots with rubber souls and the stupid square toes most likely...Fakes
ReplyDeleteCountry Music peaked in the 1960's and died sometime around 1980. There were some great, talented people in the business back then and the audience included more than just the cliche country fans, the songs were well known and liked over on the "pop" music side too. Country Music now is a pasteboard presentation of unremarkable formulamatic material delivered in exactly the same way across every song and by every artist. The artists all sound exactly the same and they all present themselves as cowboy larpers. It does not appeal to anyone except those fans that are larping along with it all as part of some imagined country/western lifestyle where pretending the like this stuff is central to the fantasy.
DeleteYou forgot the Oak Ridge Boys.
DeleteOn behalf of the KTSFC (Knuckledraggin Taylor Swift Fan Club) you should file a protest. We could get a petition going.
ReplyDeleteI would totally sign it.
DeleteBack in 75 when John Denver won entertainer of the year and couldn't be bothered to attend the award ceremony and Charlie Rich showed his disdain. Thats when country pretty much became pop music. My opinion
ReplyDeleteDaryl
I grew up with my dad listening to Jimmie Rodgers. I was trying to comment on what goes for Classic Country on a local station but it was turning into a book.
ReplyDeleteWhile we will all miss Loretta Lynn, it is for the best that she is now gone, never to again have to listen to the drivel that the no talent hacks try to pass off as country music. With the BS auto tune they use today, the so called singers don't even have to have any ability to sing on key, to make it in the business. They just have to have the ability to act, or rather perform.
ReplyDeleteI came across a youtube video once, where they had a number of singers in concert, with their vocals separated from the rest of the music, so you actually got to hear what they really sounded like. It was pretty impressive, to find out who could sing and who could not. While I don't like most of them, the ones who could really sing stuck out. Lady Gaga? She can sing like nobody's business. Pink the same thing. Adriana Grande can sing like a house afire, as can Jennifer Lopez. Madonna, sounds worse than the worse bar singer that I ever heard. Brittney Spears is also piss poor. There are a lot of videos that you can watch on youtube that show pop singers in concert, to see if they can sing or not.
I love music of most any kind, from 70's of all kinds, to real country, to radio hits from the 80's and forward, until around the 2000's, and even some good gospel. And of course, the people from the 40's and 50's like Bobby Darin, Julie London, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and their peers. I even like some big band jazz, with Dexter Gordon being my favorite. The thing is, all of that music that I love had real people, playing or singing from their heart, maybe making a mistake at times, but that was fine, because they were giving their all to express emotions, and not trying to make a buck.
My favorite musical group of all times, would have to be Sade. Their lead singer was Helen Folasade Sade. Also known as Sade, she had a unique style that she didn't care if she missed the note at the beginning, she would always eventually get there. And for the type of music they made, it worked, without the need to autotune it to achieve some engineers idea of perfection. Taylor Swift, she obviously would not "get" Sade's music. She does make a lot of money, from idiots who don't know real music even if it bit them on the face.