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Jay Horton's avatar

Yep! How about "Bro Cuntry" -say what???? My country has an O in it....

Anyway, to each his own. It's just a shame that a lot of really good artists never get a chance. There were a bunch of good acts in the early '90's that never got the label backing that it takes to fly. Label money was put into your aforementioned mentioned category.

Later Jay

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Special Ted's avatar

Entire music industry is just like Hollyweird...fake and engineered to control. You can pay the right people for 'advertising' and place your song on any chart. Or you can become a superstar like Swift or hugely successful like 'Diddy', but you have to pay with something else.

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RU's avatar

TBH, I'm not very familiar with modern country. I did happen to hear one "artist" performing as part of a pre-game show for some sporting event (I can't recall which). It was kind of on in the background and it sounded like the usual saccharine/all-the-same stuff...then, all of a sudden, it turned into the worst karaoke performance I'd every heard. I had to stop what I was doing to watch the horror show. IDK what happened - someone turned off the autotune or someone accidentally turned on the live mic instead of the recorded track - whatever it was it went from passable but obviously fake to OMG this is terrible. Kind of reconfirmed for me that I don't need to pay much attention to that genre.

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