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Post by kcdawg13 on Apr 10, 2017 22:06:26 GMT -5
Sam Hunt should do a cover of "7 Years" featuring XXXTENTACION just to send this board into a mad scramble ha ha That actually sounds amazing. Btw, I don't hate 7 Years or XXXTENTACION. 7 Years always seemed bland to me, not too bad, not too good. I actually like XXXTENTACION, he's very heavy metal. I think he's taking music in a unique direction. |
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Post by Dylan :) on Apr 11, 2017 5:02:52 GMT -5
Noteworthy country moves this week:
#6 Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road (+6)
#38 Keith Urban feat. Carrie Underwood - The Fighter (+36)
#53 Thomas Rhett feat. Marren Morris - Craving You (NEW)
#54 Jason Andean - Any Ol' Barstool (+8)
#60 Lady Antebellum - You Look Good (NEW)
#66 Dierks Bentley - Black (+21)
#71 Florida Georgia Line feat. Backstreet Boys - God, Your Mama, And Me (RE)
#75 Miranda Lambert - Tin Man (NEW)
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Post by jtd Thee Stallion on Apr 11, 2017 8:23:05 GMT -5
Goosebumps reenters in its 21sf week, hopefully it stays a while
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Post by Leo ✔ on Apr 11, 2017 8:42:30 GMT -5
"The Fighter" should've sent to Pop Radio
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 11, 2017 9:06:18 GMT -5
As much s**t that Montevallo gets, House Party is easily the best off the album. I personally think Take Your Time is the best, though it's not good at all. It's at least sincere enough that I couldn't really hate it, the same way I feel about Sam Smith's music. Everything else he has released is complete garbage, IMO. Sam Hunt and Florida Georgia Line single handedly killed country music. Acts like Kelsea Ballerini making hits showcases a shift in the genre, where good country music is finally coming through again. Carrie Underwood is still great as well. Huh? Songs like "Dibs" and "Yeah Boy" are in no way good country music. I don't mind Sam Hunt music. Fun, laid back pop country. What about Sam Hunt's music is country? |
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Post by Au$tin on Apr 11, 2017 9:30:56 GMT -5
I personally think Take Your Time is the best, though it's not good at all. It's at least sincere enough that I couldn't really hate it, the same way I feel about Sam Smith's music. Everything else he has released is complete garbage, IMO. Sam Hunt and Florida Georgia Line single handedly killed country music. Acts like Kelsea Ballerini making hits showcases a shift in the genre, where good country music is finally coming through again. Carrie Underwood is still great as well. Huh? Songs like "Dibs" and "Yeah Boy" are in no way good country music. I don't mind Sam Hunt music. Fun, laid back pop country. What about Sam Hunt's music is country? They are very much country, just not good country. All songs mentioned wouldn't do anything else on any other format without major rework ( maybe some hot AC support because poppier country crosses over there sometimes). It may not be country in the sense that you love or remember from years past, but that is unfortunately the sound that dominates country airwaves now and has for a few years. (And I personally would not consider "Dibs" a shift in any direction because it's not much different from Sam or FGL.) There are still a few artists and songs that creep through with decent country music that resembles what the genre should be, but they are few and far between. And while we're on the subject, everything not called "Leave the Night On" by Sam Hunt is pure trash. That one song where he talks for half of it is the worst of them all. |
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Apr 11, 2017 10:54:10 GMT -5
I don't know if anybody else noticed, but Sign of the Times is no longer #1 in iTunes.
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Post by shoocoochoocoo on Apr 11, 2017 11:37:25 GMT -5
I'm so glad that it has been dethroned by the best song of the year so far, i want something just like this dododoo dododoo
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Post by imbondz on Apr 12, 2017 7:02:16 GMT -5
I personally think Take Your Time is the best, though it's not good at all. It's at least sincere enough that I couldn't really hate it, the same way I feel about Sam Smith's music. Everything else he has released is complete garbage, IMO. Sam Hunt and Florida Georgia Line single handedly killed country music. Acts like Kelsea Ballerini making hits showcases a shift in the genre, where good country music is finally coming through again. Carrie Underwood is still great as well. Huh? Songs like "Dibs" and "Yeah Boy" are in no way good country music. I don't mind Sam Hunt music. Fun, laid back pop country. What about Sam Hunt's music is country? Not much. Pure country fans hate the new pop country but I like it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 9:52:02 GMT -5
The "it's not country" argument seems commonplace if you're a pure country elitist, but I say so what? I feel like it's become tired and strangely territorial. GET OFF MY LAWN. That's what I compare it to. Everything evolves and/or expands. I don't need everything to play by the rules and fit in a box the way some others do. I either like a song and/or artist, or I don't. Things don't fit nicely inside boxes anymore, so why keep trying to hold onto something that isn't (and was never really) there? If you only like twangy country, good on ya, but I don't think anyone gets to define a genre for the next person.
"Country" is more of a label at this point, imo - a marketing tool in a struggling industry - and it isn't one thing and one thing only, never has been. Pop, to me, is just a label, too - not a definable genre. But I know there are those that disagree and that's a whole other often debated topic that doesn't belong in this thread I'm sure.
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"The Fighter" is cute and catchy and seems like a multi-format radio smash. I don't think it's too late for this to crossover to other radio formats. It takes me back to some of those hit 80s duets that defied genre. I think it'd sound great on pop stations. Good to see it in the top 40 of the H100.
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Post by jebsib on Apr 12, 2017 10:02:56 GMT -5
John Denver, Shania Twain, Toby Keith… Just three examples out of dozens of core country artists that - in their day - were not considered country, because the format gatekeepers of the time didn't feel their music was country enough. Sounds evolve. Look at Rock.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 10:06:32 GMT -5
John Denver, Shania Twain, Toby Keith… Just three examples out of dozens of core country artists that - in their day - were not considered country, because the format gatekeepers of the time didn't feel their music was country enough. Sounds evolve. Look at Rock. I feel you - it's nothing new. Kenny Rogers in the early 80s had both middle fingers up, slaying all formats. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 12, 2017 10:14:30 GMT -5
The "it's not country" argument seems commonplace if you're a pure country elitist, but I say so what? I feel like it's become tired and strangely territorial. GET OFF MY LAWN. That's what I compare it to. Everything evolves and/or expands. I don't need everything to play by the rules and fit in a box the way some others do. I either like a song and/or artist, or I don't. Things don't fit nicely inside boxes anymore, so why keep trying to hold onto something that isn't (and was never really) there? If you only like twangy country, good on ya, but I don't think anyone gets to define a genre for the next person. "Country" is more of a label at this point, imo - a marketing tool in a struggling industry - and it isn't one thing and one thing only, never has been. Pop, to me, is just a label, too - not a definable genre. But I know there are those that disagree and that's a whole other often debated topic that doesn't belong in this thread I'm sure. "Evolution" and "expansion" imply some degree of maintaining core values/elements of something, and that is why a lot of people are upset about a lot of what passes for country music now. A lot of it literally does not have any sort of element of country music (i.e. banjo, fiddle, mandolin, not to mention certain song structures or storytelling elements). It would be akin to Elvis Presley's "Trouble" being marketed as rap because he talks in it. And I don't think people liking 'labels' means they can't like more than one thing. I love songs and artists from pretty much all genres of music, but I also like certain kinds of music for different reasons; I like to run to certain styles of music, I turn to certain songs when I'm upset (or happy), etc. To that end if all music sounded the same in one big genre, it wouldn't satisfy me. Conversely, "labels" make it easier for me to find what I'm in the mood for. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 12, 2017 10:17:55 GMT -5
John Denver, Shania Twain, Toby Keith… Just three examples out of dozens of core country artists that - in their day - were not considered country, because the format gatekeepers of the time didn't feel their music was country enough. Sounds evolve. Look at Rock. That's a solid point except that objectively those artists still maintained elements of country music. Twain, for instance, still had country instrumentation in the foreground of her music. Purists scoffed at her image and pop hooks, but there was still country in the music. That isn't the case with most of the songs by acts like Florida Georgia Line; from an objective standpoint, there is literally nothing identifiable as country. To add to that point, look at something like Big & Rich's "Save A Horse." It brought in an urban influence to country music, but still maintained country elements in its production. Unfortunately I don't like the type of music that song led to, but in an of itself that song is an example of an evolution of country music where it brought in new elements but maintained traditional ones as well. |
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