Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community

Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community

  • Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 years ago

    There are a lot of types of country and a lot of different singers. Radio USA certainly doesn’t represent all of it.

    It’s like saying you have to be a punk or a lower-class African American to enjoy rap. Rap is surprisingly varied, done by basically all nations and ethnicities, and more-often-than-you’d-think political or otherwise intelligent. Linkin Park (and the spin-off project Fort Minor) is my favorite band, for example; and most of their rap is about politics, introspection, dealing with mental illness, or putting down bad relationships— and the latter can be angry, melancholy, resolved-and-hopeful, forgiving, and anything in between. But I digress.

    A genre is just a genre, and any genre can be smart, skillful, and all-around good.

    • tallwookie@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      yes I suppose that’s true, there are a lot of generalizations used when it comes to art - in all of its many forms and flavors. country music just has these specific connotations associated with it - crooning about broken trucks, sad laments for the girl that got away (because she was your sister), limited acoustical and rhythmic harmony, etc

      • Arotrios@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        You’re thinking primarily country pop, and I agree with your assessment - most of it’s crap. That being said, if the only country you know is what you’ve been exposed to on the radio, you’re missing out on some amazing musicianship. Since I dig sharing music that breaks (or makes) a mold, here’s some country pieces that you might dig:

        “Lee Highway Blues” - Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper

        Jolene - Dolly Parton

        The Highwayman - Wayland Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoffersen

          • Arotrios@kbin.social
            8·
            2 years ago

            Glad you liked! You should check out more bluegrass if you like what Cleveland was playing. If you dig the style on the Highwayman, check out more Johnny Cash - he built an amazing legacy of work, and wasn’t afraid of genre jumping - here’s him doing a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt.

        • Temp008735@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          @Arotrios Going to piggyback here and also recommend an artist called Jelly Roll. Started as a rapper, but has branched into a country/rock sound recently. Vocally very strong, and is open about his issues and how he goes about trying to fix his life up for the better.

          I like his older sound better, but he is still a respectable artist even with the more mainline sound. It has however gotten him radio play, for better or worse.

          @stopthatgirl7 @tallwookie @orphiebaby

      • Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Yee, the most common versions of things aren’t the only versions of those things.

        There’s something called the “animation age ghetto”. It’s a phenomenon where most people assume that animated movies and shows are for kids only; and it has held back the medium a whole lot. Animation is just a method of getting the art out there, and it can have a lot of variation and be very sophisticated. Most of all, it can be about whatever— or for whomever— you want.

      • sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 years ago

        Nah there’s definitely more variety to country music than that, but you have to dig for it (try Woody Guthrie for instance). Much like pop music, you have to go past whats popular to find the good stuff

    • sik0fewl@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Wow, that was a really well thought out and well-constructed comment just to say you’re inbred.

      • Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 years ago
        1. Here, have a trophy for winning at internet arguments
        2. With that kind of charisma, you must have a ton of friends
        3. I was born in the suburbs of Chicago and I don’t listen to country (except Neil Diamond, which I argue is partially country even though others disagree)— not that it should even matter. But I say it just to help drive my point home about your stupidity
        4. Check my profile and see how stupid I am, I dare you
        5. If your goal was to look cool to random strangers on the internet, you failed
          • Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
            6·
            2 years ago
            1. When a person is saying “all people who like country music are inbred”, they are drawing upon the stigmas of the deep south. Duh.
            2. At the risk of sounding kind of lame, the fact is that you don’t know anything about me or my situation. Yeah, there are ways for me to make money. But online freelancing is really competitive, and all local businesses are too stingy to hire a proofreader/editor unless they have journalism experience. How about you go find a way to make $4000 in a single month in a small town in the US when you have cerebral palsy and sensory integration disorder? Go outside, touch some grass, and consider not insulting and alienating every random person you see on the internet.

            Also, good job cherry-picking the most vulnerable thing I said even though it has nothing to do with “whether or not I’m inbred (a.k.a. ‘dumb’)”. Says a lot about what your goals are

    • sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      yes thank you, I’m so sick of hearing “rap is crap” from people who’ve only heard a few gangsta rap songs on the radio in the 1990s and assumed that was it. That was all rap had to offer