Beyoncé announced two new songs — “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” — in an ad during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Both songs have a heavy country influence, a departure from the Houston native’s usual R&B style, but when a fan requested Oklahoma radio station KYKC to play “Texas Hold ‘Em,” the station refused.
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Not that it would make much difference with the pop country shit they play on the radio now.
The article isn’t accurate. The radio station was not aware that any country tunes from Beyoncé had dropped, nor had their distributor given the songs to them to play. The station manager had to call around to rectify it. I have a feeling they were released prematurely by the artist.
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This must be a request from all the leftist sanctuary cities: PLEASE HOLD ALL THE ILLEGALS WE INVITED IN YOUR STATE OF TEXAS".
ReplyDeleteAs you say, it wouldn't matter since few stations actually play country music anyway. This modern garbage seldom bears any resemblance to real country music.
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I stopped listening to so-called country music when the cowboy hat wearing bubblegum crap started. Florida Georgia Line, Jason the bitch Aldean, the dumbass from Oklahoma who's name escapes me but he was married to some whiney bitch for awhile who is another wannabe.. I also stopped listening to anything Willie Nelson after he came out in support for the beto bitch for senator....
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Jemimah ought’a stick to Swing Low Sweet Chariot elevator music.
ReplyDelete"Not that it would make much difference with the pop country shit they play on the radio now."
ReplyDeleteTry Willie's Roadhouse on SiriusXM. Patsy Cline, George Jones, Conway Twitty, Willie & Waylon . . .
Satellite stream and radio are the same like CDs and 8-tracks.
DeleteMuch like Willie now and Willie back 20 years, I made the mistake of taking in a concert 4 years ago. The wife and I loved Alison Krauss but I couldn't recognize 2 of the 6 Willie songs we stayed for untill the drunk and stoned boomers yelled out the chorus.
Guess we all have different tastes. I get half a dozen country channels on my satellite radio, and Willie's station is the utter pits. Very little on there that's less than 50 years old, most of it boring as all hell. I'll take the early 80s to very early 2000s reinvented country, which at least has some energy. Maybe recent country is just where rock and roll wound up, and I'm fine with that too. Throw in some fiddle, some banjo, some dobro or dulcimer, maybe even some accordion, and it sounds country. Add in some actual lyrics that tell a story in several verses and it becomes real enough. But don't try to make me think somebody like Beyonce is ever going to be actual country.
ReplyDeleteMost of what is called Red Dirt Road is pretty good, younger guys and gals picking up the reins and adding a modem sound....
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I went and listened to her tune. Don't know what a visualizer is, official or not, but it wasn't an actual music video. But what I saw was a loop of some mostly naked whore walking up from the dark dressed in shiny bits of metal , black leather vest and fishnet stockings. And a cowboy hat. She draws her finger guns from her holster and pops a couple off. Repeat loop. The lyrics are excessively simple, saying pretty much nothing. Yet somehow she's found the formula, so at least it sounds somewhat country. Overall, my reaction ... I felt insulted. Mocked.
ReplyDeleteJay Z & Bounce redneck AF.
ReplyDeleteElla Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby both sang "Don't Fence Me In" (voted one of the top 100 country songs of all time) but neither tried to pass themselves off as a country singer. Admittedly, there are few singers, country or not, who can hold a candle to Ella. She could probably sing a telephone book and make it sound good, just not on a country station.
ReplyDeleteBeyonce forcing radio stations to play her shitty 'country music' (and she gets PAID for it) or else they're RACIST. She learned this routine from Jesse Jackson.
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