Someone at a party tried to compare them to Brooks & Dunn. I about slapped the shit of of that kid right there. Florida Georgia Line isn't fit to shine Ronnie Dunn's boots.
+Vernon Parker Most likely. My personal opinion is country music has been on a downward spiral since the early 2000's. Hell you can't even pay a radio station where I live to play Alan Jackson.
I just thought of a new country song I used to live in a small town Where I met my girl I had a big truck I used to live in a small town Where I met my girl I had a big truck I used to live in a small town Where I met my girl I had a big truck I used to live in a small town Where I met my girl I had a big truck Had a big truck Had a big truck Had a big truuuuuuuuck
To me it lost it's feel. I miss the way that it was when it was great. Waylon Jennings would probably not like today's Country Music. It all seemed to start with Rascal Flatts back in 2000,yet still then Viacom did not ruin it totally then. Viacom owns CMT and before them it was owned by people who cared about true Country Music.
i'm a proponent of the idea that Rascal Flatts is one of the few real country acts left in the genre...I don't listen to country nearly as much as I did, but some of the artists shaped my musical taste at one point...I'm a rock and metal head now, but i still owe some of the country acts respect for being successful and giving me something to listen to...5 years ago, you could call it my favorite genre, but now it's a different story.
I live in West Virginia, so whenever I go for a walk I go by my local city pool where they always play modern country music. It is at that point where I put in my earphones and start up Reign In Blood.
About a year ago, I went with my brother to this country bar and starting listening to the music. I thought to myself, what the fk. happened to country music? The songs sucked. When I was younger, the songs and singers were better. They had personality. This generation sucks.
Country Best: Alan Jackson, George Strait, Clint Black, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Charlie Daniels, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks. Worst: Florida "NBA" Georgia Line, Luke "Joshua" Bryan, Carrie "Lisa Simpson" Underwood, Zac "Dirty Harry" Brown Band, Clarence "Gatepunk" Brown, Sam "Arrested for turning into pop" Hunt, Jason "Nothin' But Pop" Aldean, garth Brooks.
The country music you hear on the radio sounds more like pop than country. Now country is not my cup of tea but there are some artists I do like and those are not really known.
The storytellers are gone. That is the greatest shame. Country needs great wordsmiths like Haggard and Kristofferson, people who understand the technical construction of images that tell a story, just as rock needs the great wordsmiths like Knopfler and Waits. There is little in pop country now but assembly-lined cliches.
I think Today's Country singers took David Allen Coe's song 'You Never Even Called Me By My Name' too seriously. The verse about 'The perfect country and western song' has become the cookie cutter.
I tried listening to a country station here in VEGAS for a few weeks and I was amazed how every SONG did have only about 4 story lines for all of them! And add to that the singers were so similar in sound I could only take it a few weeks as to me hearing the same song over and over and the same sound over and over is so boring!
I know people who love modern country music and I try to explain why it sucks but they won’t listen to me. So I show them this video. But about 5 minuets in, they gave me my phone back
I think this is something you might be interested in. Zach Bryan is still new so it will not be a surprise if you never heard of him, but he has had some success on the country charts, but lets see how long that success will last now that he has spoken about the trans bud light commercial. He writes his own songs, and almost all are written by Zach Bryan alone. I just noticed that this was posted 8 years ago, so I have no expectation of getting a response. th-cam.com/video/lA8F9sIhGdg/w-d-xo.html
So true...but the reason for all of that is because people are stupid. If they make simple, cookie cutter music, people are going to buy it, and they are using music as a business, not an art. That's what's wrong with music today. Music should be about making music for the sake of making it, not to make money. If people weren't being fed this bullshit, maybe they wouldn't be so simple minded and actually branch out and discover new music that they like, and like it because they like it, not because it's today's hit song. Music shouldn't be about liking a song because it's popular, and following the majorities, music should be about liking it because it makes you feel good, and not giving a shit whether others like it or not. That's my opinion as a metalhead.
9:14 that can be solved by promoting the idea that people no longer need a mainstream record company or scene dictating to them. How easy is it to discover music these days via the internet? I can't wait for the day people realize the power they have at their disposal and finally learn to discern what talent is for themselves instead of looking to some outdated 20th century tool of letting a suit dictate their musical palette.
I'm familiar with greats like Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzel, & Waylen Jennings. But those Broke Back Cowboys of today's country music, I'm not familiar with. That's because when I do hear their music, my stomach starts to turn and I do what ever I can to get rid of it. Now, I can relate to Merl Haggard's "If We make it through December" as I remember when money was tight as a kid. If the wife and I are fighting, Hank's "Why don't you love me anymore" or "I'm so Lonesome I could cry." There's Lefty's "Cigarette & Coffee" or "If you got the Money Honey" and George Jone's "the Race is on." When I was 18, I was young and hoping to get a certain girl back and could relate to Brian Adam's "Everything I do, I do for you." When I was 30, I related to Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (despite all my rage, I'm still just rat in a cage), now I'm 42 married with a child, I can easily relate to Merl's "You don't care what I think, I'll just stay here and drink." Why the fuck do I give a shit about your pickup truck, I drive a VW Golf? I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul. I didn't grow up on a farm or live down a dirt road. I did live on a snow packed road for 4 months out of the year. I don't think you have to be a southern country boy to relate to "Lost Highway" or "The Bottle let me down."
If you look at the selection of music in 95% of music stores or chain stores like Best Buy and Target that carry music in most major cites, you won't find much country or Rock, instead, they clog their music sections up with shit like Justin Bieber, Little Wayne and other suck-ass musicians. That's why I do most of my music shopping online. This lack of Brick and Mortor availability of most genres is one of the major problems with the modern music industry, IMHO. My fav country artist is Charlie Daniels, but, much like the metal band Epica, most brick and mortors don't carry his stuff.
+James Hughey you're like any die-hard of a genre, then. You care about its history and growth and find things you love about both because it interests you and you like it. Nothing at all wrong with that in the slightest. Who are some of your faves from the modern crop?
country died and rock is dead too ive heard auto tune on both country stations and rock stations... considering they wont play any new rock on the radio its mind boggling how autotuned rap style rock made it on the air ..... all faith is lost.. rap culture has destroyed all genres
I agree that mainstream country sucks nowadays and mainstream rock has been pretty wussified, blame Onerepublic, 5sos, American Authors, The Script, Fun, new Maroon 5, and new Fall Out Boy. However, there's plenty of good new country musicians and rock musicians out there. You just have to look for them.
A lot of the best songs in almost every genre aren't played on radios so they end up drowned out by all the shit ones. It's really unfortunate and ruins the chance for modern music to get much better from the cesspool of garbage It's turned into.
I stopped listening to country radio when Taylor Swift showed up, she was the beginning of the end for country music. I don't even wanna know what it's gonna be like 10 years down the road
9 years later and country music has been completely destroyed for the most part. A few guys like colter wall, Zach top, Tyler Childers, and Zach Bryan to name a few are making some good music. Beyoncé just made a “country” album and good grief I think it’s the nail in the coffin… real country music is almost dead.
yeah, but they aren't getting the recognition they deserve. Chris Stapleton is the only one getting played on radio and heck...he rarely gets played on radio
Little story. Use to work with a couple guys in their 60s that would only listen to the same modern pop country station everyday. Of course it was the same 15 songs played over and over all day long. You know fgl, Luke Bryan, etc. A couple times when they left the room, I put it on classic country station that played 50s and 60s. Then they came back in the room they say, "what the hell is this crap!" And promptly put it back to modern station. This music has a brainwashing effect on some people. All they wanted to do was listen to the same 15 songs day after day.
I would like to see you review WeAreHarlot's first released track "Denial". Danny Worsnop (From Asking Alexandria if anybody doesn't know) is the singer and yes I can guess what your opinion is about him, but I want to hear your thoughts about this new band.
Brad Paisley is probably the coolest guy in country right now, even if he sometimes falls into the same cliche trappings as Aldean, Bryan, etc. Funny guy though, especially when he's on Prairie Home Companion, and several songs are clever. Jamey Johnson is also great. Listen to his double album The Guitar Song if you haven't
I agree 100% Country music these days sucks it’s all about attractive women, beer, pickup trucks and partying. That’s not Country that’s just trash being played on the radio stations
Hey man, before I watched this video, I like old and new country, but I've always like old country like 90s and back, but now I know why I did. and why I do like old country cause you are 100 percent right
Sturgill Simpson. He has two albums High Top Mountain and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Both are made outside of the Trashville machine and he is country. Perhaps, one of the few to possibly save Country music.
We can all mention bad artists, but at the end of the day, the problem is with the record labels. There are a few labels and they don't allow their artists to express themselves. This doesn't exist within any other genre the same way it does with country. Sturgill Simpson took a different route to getting where he is today and it shows. Hip-hop is becoming more and more experimental and almost anyone can find an artist or sound that appeals to them. Rock music has some amazing artists in the underground and there are several smaller labels that give them complete creative freedom. These opportunities don't exist in country music. Hip-hop and rock aren't as saturated because almost all of them sound completely different even if they're in the same sub-genre. Very few country artists can differentiate themselves from the pack and that's a problem.
These are the ingredients for a country music song of today: Pick- up truck, country girl, John Deere tractor, bails of hay, lake or pond, case of beer, bottle of Jack, fishing poles and a long dirt road. The final ingredient... auto tuner for your vocals.
Are you going to review the 5 Seconds of Summer's debut whenever it comes out? Because I will take joy in watching you rip it to shreds, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
But country music has always been the same!!! Lol you know what the old joke was right??? What happened if you play a country record backwards?? Your wife comes back you truck runs and your dog never ran away!! I just think its weird seeing city people do country music!! Its phoney!!
I totally agree with you. Im so sick of these "country artists" that just dont seem to care about music at all. The few artists nowadays that seem to actually give a shit and I enjoy are Zac Brown Band, Kacey Musgraves, Nick 13, Jason Isbell, The Drive By Truckers, The Lone Bellow, The Civil Wars, and Ryan Adams.
***** Dude no he's not. He sings what he feels. That's why he's old school country because he sings what he feels. Almost every song that he sings was written by him. How is that cookie cutter a guy who writes his own songs? There's no way no how that's freaking cookie cutter man.
The sad thing is John Denver even sounded a lot more Country than Country performers today. If Charlie Rich who burned his Award nomination in 1975 was still alive today he would have already left Nashville for Branson back in the late 1990's fed up with the new crap in Nashville that is called Country
i wasn't crazy about the late 1980's Country Music but it was still much better than Country Music since 1990. The same problem with Pop Music and Soft Rock Music since 1990. Every Global Genre Music Industry became ruled by Hip Hop sounding crap since 1990. Even Country Music sounds more Hip Hop and Rap crap today than Country Music.
When I was growing up listening to country on the radio, you could easily tell who was singing because the had their own distinctive style from one another. I was like "hey that's Alabama, hey that's George Straight, Garth Brooks, Terri Clark," and so on. Nowadays everyone is overproduced, overhomogenized, and overformulaic. Nothing is interesting anymmore.
Nailed it...and two years later, country is dead. It's all this dude/bro country about exactly what you stated...dead on. Sick of the "Smalltown Throwdown", tribal tattoos, drinking, daisydukes, etc...and putting on this "tough guy/alpha" bullshit (when they're really betas), and being "outlaws and rebels" with a pop and hick hop sound. It's sad and disgusting.
hey Mark, have you seen Dave Grohls documentary Sound City? and what do you think of Dave Grohl creating his own TV show for HBO in which he presents different record studios in the us and records new music?
it's funny how he talks about wanting Taylor swift to move away from country, and completely into pop, and in 2016, that's exactly what she's done. well predicted, well predicted...
Although not completely country, Whiskey Myers is a hell of a southern rock band. A southern rock/country band that actually evolves with each album...
Although some of these are good reasons. Only certain artists are hit by these. You said why "modern country sucks", a lot of modern country singers however, don't fit into these reasons.
Good point on people from different areas and different experiences circumstances giving their input on Country Music, ie. "someone who has had to live in the streets." All I've got to say is look at 'Gus Van Zandt' and the craft he left, but asking for an artist to emerge that is even half as sincere and 'real' is probably too much to ask for in today's Country music industry. Screw Nashville! Perhaps Memphis (home of the blues) needs to be built up as the 'Alternative' home for Country.
The one behind these artists admitted that he hated the true sound of Country Music. George Strait admitted that Nashville was ruining Country Music even in the late 1990's. I do like George Strait. Pre 2000's Country Music was better than today's Country Music.
You fixated for a bit on the various country music award shows, I'm curious, does your negative opinion of award shows for one genre extend to the Golden Gods?
I wouldn't want to go to a Chinese restaurant having my heart set on Chinese, and get a plate of half Chinese and half Mexican food.... That's what we get with country these days whether we ask for it or not. Put this little insert of rap in it and drive me nuts!!! Not that I don't like it from time to time... JUST DONT MIX MY CHINESE FOOD WITH MEXICAN!!!!!!
***** Folsom Prison and Ring of Fire are the only examples people can ever give me of songs they like, which shows me most of the people who defend his music just parrot what others say. I swear, it has become the "cool thing" to defend his music, but I have no clue as to why. It is just as twangy and hillbilly-ish as the rest of country music. Folsom Prison was just as lame as everything else he did. Two chord vamps are too simple for me. Country music as a whole is lame as shit....including Johnny Cash. I respect that he went the "dark" route (why he was considered dark is beyond me)....but even that is too lame for me.
+metaleer1979x I don't know if you'll respond to this or not, but "I Walk the Line" and my favorite Cash song "I've Been Everywhere" are songs that I recommend you check out.
I agree, and honestly it gives me a headache. It also seems to be popular that these fuckers are mixing a bit of hip-hop in their songs, i.e. Florida Georgia Line. Next thing, you know they will try to throw in some pathetic dubstep in their songs.
Country music has that popish blend in it because pop and others generally sell out fast then country so artist do anything for that money and so they get more fans
I'm 58..I was born in 1963 and grew up in Phoenix, Az so I grew up with the famous rock of the 60s, 70s, 80s famous "classic rock" but I also grew up with in the glory country years, too. Goerge jones, and Conway Twitty (whom I LOVED) Dolly, and Willie, and all the other famous country acts and I loved it all. I'd go from Bohemian Rhapsody to Momma Tried--There is little doubt I grew up in THE golden era of music. When I was born the Beatles were just about to hit--Ive lived threw it all. From Dion and the Belmonts to Black Sabbath....but NOW?? 2022?? WHAT CRAP!!!??!??!?!? Music is DONE, just like our country. All good things come to an end, sadly. I am a musician and I teach "The History of Rock n Roll" at a University (which is one if not THE most popular course on campus ( I have over 120 students a class with a waiting list) and every kid agrees. music SUCKS now. My theory is that there mathematical+there are only a finite amount of notes. You cant invent a new "A" or "C"--you cant invent the new "H" note. EVER--so what makes a song is how and where you place those finite notes in what is called a song. Well--I believe the "ideas" have been used up. There is no more "room" for a new song. So what do they do?? S#^%# like country rap and autotune in country. PUER CRAP--If it wasnt for The Weekend (foll needs to change that name--he played the superbowl and no one knows his name, lol) whom I like (because he is a 80s/90s throwback. How about the biggest COUNTRY star is from AUSTRALIA. How UN-AUTHENTIC. Know who was AUTHENTIC?? Merle haggard. Merle wasnt from India or Japan--Country is all about Americana. The fact that that frosted-tip australian rules country is a perfect example of how contrived and fake it is now. The first time I heard country rap--I almost took my own life--it's THAT BAD. Modern country is PURE CRAP
Country music , like all music from America, derived from black slave and rhythm and blues songs. Befor you go off and brag how the Carter family and Jimmie Rogers started it all, know this. They were only the first to "record" the sound, but learned the guitar picking, harmonizing and melodies as well as the moaning lyrics from black slave songs and blues. The bluegrass sound was in fact from Irish, Scottish and English folk songs, but the banjo aspect was brought into play from blacks (it is an African instrument) and as country became the sound we hear today, and especially over the last twenty years. The only sound close to country white immigrants contributed was from these three genres, because the music played in Europe and being brought over at that time was Baroque, Polka and maybe a small collection of folk genre from given countries, usually forgotten once moved though, aside from the Irish, which is how bluegrass was born. Country and rock both were born from the same thing, and many black artists were deprived of their music, or even given the recognition they deserved. People like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis admitted to learning how to dance, play and sing from going to black bars and nightclubs. Bands like Led Zeppelin, and even Elvis took black songs and made millions, giving the true artists nothing. Maybelle Carter claimed to be the first to play a guitar with a certain finger style(basic chicken pickin) which was learned from banjo playing by blacks when they began playing guitar, it may have been new to her, but was being done WAY befor she began doing it. American music today aside from classical, is all black rooted, and boy am I glad, it would have been boring if it was not.....
Music has been getting dumbed down for about 100 years now. Classical music was WAY more complex than anything put out in the last 70 years. Early jazz, country, rock. The chords structures were much more complex than todays music. Rap has reduced "music" to a bass guitar and a bass drum kicking your brain stem over and over and over. Exactly WHY would music regress in complexity? One would think the opposite would happen. That we would get bored and want MORE complicated arrangements. I really do not have the answer. One plausible answer is we require performers to be better looking today. Its like if you took a beauty contest and made the talent portion 60% of the final score, the contestants would get less attractive over time right? Well the reverse is true as well. Is it really the BEST looking performers that have the most talent? In reality better looking people tend to be more shallow, less creative as they have less reason to look deeper into themselves since the world is fixated on their appearance. This is not THE reason for crappier music, but likely part of it.
There's a duet with two skinny dudes one blonde with long hair and one brunet with short hair. I never heard such wantabe country music in my life. I don't know who these guys are, but man what a bunch of prissiness weird crap they sing.
He is easily one of the best reviewers on youtube
He seems like a real asshole, with the way he moves his head and seems annoyed... You're a self-important idiot.
The worst band ever is Florida Georgia Line
Someone at a party tried to compare them to Brooks & Dunn. I about slapped the shit of of that kid right there. Florida Georgia Line isn't fit to shine Ronnie Dunn's boots.
Finally someone agrees with me!
+Jack1979 Let me guess, he also listens to Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Jason Aldean, etc
+Vernon Parker Most likely. My personal opinion is country music has been on a downward spiral since the early 2000's. Hell you can't even pay a radio station where I live to play Alan Jackson.
you can flame me if you want, but i miss the Dixie Chicks. they were more country than these Florida Georgia Line and Sam Hunt twats
I'm in 5th grade and I love the old stuff like David allan coe and Johny cash
If you've heard one modern country song, you've literally heard them all.
Shaxuul basically
except for Hank 3
Old country = best country. RIP Merle :(
Dylan Furr Johnny Cash to man
Waylon was the man.
i still blame Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Cyrus for completely destroying Real Country Music from 1990 to Today.
5 years late, but at least Garth still has stories. Allot of them don't.
Yeah Garth Brooks started the downfall of Country.
imo country music died when john denver & alabama became less popular
The. Dixie chicks. Are. All. Assholes.
Jon.denver. was. A, crap. Head
All this pop country shit all sounds identical, its literally listening to the same exact song over and over and over and over and over on the radio.
+Jay Simons its better than having to rip my ears out every time i here country
I just thought of a new country song
I used to live in a small town
Where I met my girl
I had a big truck
I used to live in a small town
Where I met my girl
I had a big truck
I used to live in a small town
Where I met my girl
I had a big truck
I used to live in a small town
Where I met my girl
I had a big truck
Had a big truck
Had a big truck
Had a big truuuuuuuuck
That would make it on the radio.
Executive: You’re hired!!
To me it lost it's feel.
I miss the way that it was when it was great.
Waylon Jennings would probably not like today's Country Music.
It all seemed to start with Rascal Flatts back in 2000,yet still then Viacom did not ruin it totally then.
Viacom owns CMT and before them it was owned by people who cared about true Country Music.
i'm a proponent of the idea that Rascal Flatts is one of the few real country acts left in the genre...I don't listen to country nearly as much as I did, but some of the artists shaped my musical taste at one point...I'm a rock and metal head now, but i still owe some of the country acts respect for being successful and giving me something to listen to...5 years ago, you could call it my favorite genre, but now it's a different story.
JustForBrieLarson no it started with Garth Brooks
Favorite country band: Alabama.
Good choice.
I defiantly agree with that. Their way better than the oak ridge boys.
Love Alabama
Southern Rock...
EmperorTigerstar, Lord of Maps, I never thought I'd see you on Cover Killer Nation.
I still blame Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Underwood for ruining country. Whenever I see them in concert, I'll instantly freakin boo at them.
"honky tonk, badonka donk" wasnt that song like '04?
I live in West Virginia, so whenever I go for a walk I go by my local city pool where they always play modern country music. It is at that point where I put in my earphones and start up Reign In Blood.
listen to some modern metal pal.
today's country music = pop music
Sung by people with screechy stupid sounding southern accents.
Pop music with a fake accent.
This whole entire video is true as fuck 🤘🏼💯
Ryan Upchurch you right
Hell yeah brother
About a year ago, I went with my brother to this country bar and starting listening to the music. I thought to myself, what the fk. happened to country music? The songs sucked. When I was younger, the songs and singers were better. They had personality. This generation sucks.
Country
Best: Alan Jackson, George Strait, Clint Black, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Charlie Daniels, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks.
Worst: Florida "NBA" Georgia Line, Luke "Joshua" Bryan, Carrie "Lisa Simpson" Underwood, Zac "Dirty Harry" Brown Band, Clarence "Gatepunk" Brown, Sam "Arrested for turning into pop" Hunt, Jason "Nothin' But Pop" Aldean, garth Brooks.
Logo Film No, Garth Brooks isn't good.
@@johnathanjackson4074 change my correction, thanks.
Im a George Strait,Alan Jackson,Chris Ledoux and Brooks and Dunn fan and i agree with you.
The country music you hear on the radio sounds more like pop than country. Now country is not my cup of tea but there are some artists I do like and those are not really known.
The storytellers are gone. That is the greatest shame. Country needs great wordsmiths like Haggard and Kristofferson, people who understand the technical construction of images that tell a story, just as rock needs the great wordsmiths like Knopfler and Waits. There is little in pop country now but assembly-lined cliches.
We need more Alan Jacksons, Clint Blacks, Alabamas, etc.
More storytellers. More different tunes and lyrics
Check out Colter Wall
Guess where you can find the talented story tellers now? Underground hip-hop.
Don't forget Marty Robbins, he's my favorite country singer. I'm 14 and I think this current genre of music sucks.
Country Music has been slowly but surely selling out as a genre thanks to Taylor Swift
o you poor naive soul. it was sold out before that. "honky tonk, badonka donk" country was trash before her.
I think Today's Country singers took David Allen Coe's song 'You Never Even Called Me By My Name' too seriously. The verse about 'The perfect country and western song' has become the cookie cutter.
Only five reasons? Every Luke Bryan song is a new reason. Fifty years ago, he'd be a real country band's sissy britches.
Phillip Holmes hahaha, so you dislike Luke, eh? You're not alone.
Luke Bryan's a joke. I'll take Waylon,Willie,Cash,Coe,Haggard,Jones and Buck over that phony,any day.
Fuck you
+MrDarksword123 Luke Bryan ? I think I've heard her.
***** nothing good right?
These current country singers also have the most generic vocal inflections. They all have the same southern accent.
Yeah. And I can't stand hearing their vocals.
I tried listening to a country station here in VEGAS for a few weeks and I was amazed how every SONG did have only about 4 story lines for all of them! And add to that the singers were so similar in sound I could only take it a few weeks as to me hearing the same song over and over and the same sound over and over is so boring!
I know people who love modern country music and I try to explain why it sucks but they won’t listen to me. So I show them this video. But about 5 minuets in, they gave me my phone back
I think this is something you might be interested in. Zach Bryan is still new so it will not be a surprise if you never heard of him, but he has had some success on the country charts, but lets see how long that success will last now that he has spoken about the trans bud light commercial. He writes his own songs, and almost all are written by Zach Bryan alone. I just noticed that this was posted 8 years ago, so I have no expectation of getting a response.
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The profundity of this man is something to be in aw of. The age of commodity over novelty is at hand.
Irish country music is doing okay... I guess. Well Irish music is good overall.
Amen to that
So true...but the reason for all of that is because people are stupid. If they make simple, cookie cutter music, people are going to buy it, and they are using music as a business, not an art. That's what's wrong with music today. Music should be about making music for the sake of making it, not to make money. If people weren't being fed this bullshit, maybe they wouldn't be so simple minded and actually branch out and discover new music that they like, and like it because they like it, not because it's today's hit song. Music shouldn't be about liking a song because it's popular, and following the majorities, music should be about liking it because it makes you feel good, and not giving a shit whether others like it or not. That's my opinion as a metalhead.
Country music is basically pop music with a pickup instead of a sports car and you get the point.
I agree with you, I love Country Music, but cant stand today's country. a few artist is staying to the true Country. but never hear them on the radio.
True
9:14 that can be solved by promoting the idea that people no longer need a mainstream record company or scene dictating to them. How easy is it to discover music these days via the internet? I can't wait for the day people realize the power they have at their disposal and finally learn to discern what talent is for themselves instead of looking to some outdated 20th century tool of letting a suit dictate their musical palette.
Country music is probably the only genre I can't get into, I love johnny cash but everything else is....meh
Lol I'm the same way, but I still try to expand my mind into that genre.
Brenda Cole it's all about progressive rock/metal!! \m/
OfficialMondo Amen brotha \m/
Waylon jennings and jhonny cash is all u need
Waylon Willie Strait Alabama Cash Yoakam...good music not for everyone. But today is garbage.
I'm familiar with greats like Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzel, & Waylen Jennings. But those Broke Back Cowboys of today's country music, I'm not familiar with. That's because when I do hear their music, my stomach starts to turn and I do what ever I can to get rid of it. Now, I can relate to Merl Haggard's "If We make it through December" as I remember when money was tight as a kid. If the wife and I are fighting, Hank's "Why don't you love me anymore" or "I'm so Lonesome I could cry." There's Lefty's "Cigarette & Coffee" or "If you got the Money Honey" and George Jone's "the Race is on."
When I was 18, I was young and hoping to get a certain girl back and could relate to Brian Adam's "Everything I do, I do for you." When I was 30, I related to Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (despite all my rage, I'm still just rat in a cage), now I'm 42 married with a child, I can easily relate to Merl's "You don't care what I think, I'll just stay here and drink."
Why the fuck do I give a shit about your pickup truck, I drive a VW Golf? I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul. I didn't grow up on a farm or live down a dirt road. I did live on a snow packed road for 4 months out of the year. I don't think you have to be a southern country boy to relate to "Lost Highway" or "The Bottle let me down."
If you look at the selection of music in 95% of music stores or chain stores like Best Buy and Target that carry music in most major cites, you won't find much country or Rock, instead, they clog their music sections up with shit like Justin Bieber, Little Wayne and other suck-ass musicians. That's why I do most of my music shopping online. This lack of Brick and Mortor availability of most genres is one of the major problems with the modern music industry, IMHO. My fav country artist is Charlie Daniels, but, much like the metal band Epica, most brick and mortors don't carry his stuff.
Best country artist in the country: "Johnny Rebel"
Racist
Elijah' Mathews all of Johnny Rebel’s songs are about white supremacy lol.
Kermit The Frog I hate country lmao
i still to this day listen to "check yes or no" and i love it
90s , 80s and 70s blues based rock music !! And love it
I love old country I listen as a kid on old records
what if i enjoy listening to old country and new country?
+James Hughey you're like any die-hard of a genre, then. You care about its history and growth and find things you love about both because it interests you and you like it. Nothing at all wrong with that in the slightest. Who are some of your faves from the modern crop?
Same here
country died and rock is dead too ive heard auto tune on both country stations and rock stations... considering they wont play any new rock on the radio its mind boggling how autotuned rap style rock made it on the air ..... all faith is lost.. rap culture has destroyed all genres
I agree that mainstream country sucks nowadays and mainstream rock has been pretty wussified, blame Onerepublic, 5sos, American Authors, The Script, Fun, new Maroon 5, and new Fall Out Boy. However, there's plenty of good new country musicians and rock musicians out there. You just have to look for them.
Rap has ruined america
I agree! Rap influences have been leaking into every genre and it is terrible
A lot of the best songs in almost every genre aren't played on radios so they end up drowned out by all the shit ones. It's really unfortunate and ruins the chance for modern music to get much better from the cesspool of garbage It's turned into.
rap is the most influential genre, no surprise
I stopped listening to country radio when Taylor Swift showed up, she was the beginning of the end for country music. I don't even wanna know what it's gonna be like 10 years down the road
Same shxt, different day
9 years later and country music has been completely destroyed for the most part. A few guys like colter wall, Zach top, Tyler Childers, and Zach Bryan to name a few are making some good music. Beyoncé just made a “country” album and good grief I think it’s the nail in the coffin… real country music is almost dead.
anyone here like steve earle?
whiter417 love him
"Copperhead Road"!
Feel Alright.
Singers like Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Ashley Monroe and Ryan Bingham are the ones trying to save today's country music
+123rockfan kacey is the future of country music
also shes pretty hot :)
yeah, but they aren't getting the recognition they deserve. Chris Stapleton is the only one getting played on radio and heck...he rarely gets played on radio
Don't forget about Eric Church.
Angel of Death i think he has a few good songs, but I'd consider most of his music under the label "bro country"
what about sturgill simpson? he was amazing on snl recently
As mentioned, with Casualties of Cool JUST releasing, this is a pretty ironic time to be releasing this video. Devin Townsend strikes again.
I love listening to "Dreaming My Dreams" by Waylon Jennings and "Big City" by Merle Haggard. Both Fantastic albums that I can listen to anytime!
Little story. Use to work with a couple guys in their 60s that would only listen to the same modern pop country station everyday. Of course it was the same 15 songs played over and over all day long. You know fgl, Luke Bryan, etc. A couple times when they left the room, I put it on classic country station that played 50s and 60s. Then they came back in the room they say, "what the hell is this crap!" And promptly put it back to modern station. This music has a brainwashing effect on some people. All they wanted to do was listen to the same 15 songs day after day.
I would like to see you review WeAreHarlot's first released track "Denial". Danny Worsnop (From Asking Alexandria if anybody doesn't know) is the singer and yes I can guess what your opinion is about him, but I want to hear your thoughts about this new band.
Brad Paisley is probably the coolest guy in country right now, even if he sometimes falls into the same cliche trappings as Aldean, Bryan, etc. Funny guy though, especially when he's on Prairie Home Companion, and several songs are clever. Jamey Johnson is also great. Listen to his double album The Guitar Song if you haven't
Tiernan Flaherty he's good, but listen to Ticks, Alcohol, and I'm still a guy, they sound almost the same, my personal favorite is Old Alabama
I agree 100% Country music these days sucks it’s all about attractive women, beer, pickup trucks and partying. That’s not Country that’s just trash being played on the radio stations
The only way to make it into "country" music nowadays,is to be a pretty boy with a guitar.
Most male country singers today look like hipsters
Hey man, before I watched this video, I like old and new country, but I've always like old country like 90s and back, but now I know why I did. and why I do like old country cause you are 100 percent right
Here in year 2014 it's all about looks not how good you can sing.
Sturgill Simpson. He has two albums High Top Mountain and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Both are made outside of the Trashville machine and he is country. Perhaps, one of the few to possibly save Country music.
We can all mention bad artists, but at the end of the day, the problem is with the record labels. There are a few labels and they don't allow their artists to express themselves. This doesn't exist within any other genre the same way it does with country. Sturgill Simpson took a different route to getting where he is today and it shows.
Hip-hop is becoming more and more experimental and almost anyone can find an artist or sound that appeals to them. Rock music has some amazing artists in the underground and there are several smaller labels that give them complete creative freedom. These opportunities don't exist in country music. Hip-hop and rock aren't as saturated because almost all of them sound completely different even if they're in the same sub-genre. Very few country artists can differentiate themselves from the pack and that's a problem.
These are the ingredients for a country music song of today: Pick- up truck, country girl, John Deere tractor, bails of hay, lake or pond, case of beer, bottle of Jack, fishing poles and a long dirt road. The final ingredient... auto tuner for your vocals.
Are you going to review the 5 Seconds of Summer's debut whenever it comes out? Because I will take joy in watching you rip it to shreds, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
But country music has always been the same!!! Lol you know what the old joke was right??? What happened if you play a country record backwards?? Your wife comes back you truck runs and your dog never ran away!! I just think its weird seeing city people do country music!! Its phoney!!
I totally agree with you. Im so sick of these "country artists" that just dont seem to care about music at all. The few artists nowadays that seem to actually give a shit and I enjoy are Zac Brown Band, Kacey Musgraves, Nick 13, Jason Isbell, The Drive By Truckers, The Lone Bellow, The Civil Wars, and Ryan Adams.
Josh Turner should be in that list bro. I love his music because he sticks to country routes.
***** Dude no he's not. He sings what he feels. That's why he's old school country because he sings what he feels. Almost every song that he sings was written by him. How is that cookie cutter a guy who writes his own songs? There's no way no how that's freaking cookie cutter man.
bucky468 ok then what is he
bucky468 more like alt country
bucky468 ok so one of his songs doesnt sound country. Do u know his other songs
The sad thing is John Denver even sounded a lot more Country than Country performers today. If Charlie Rich who burned his Award nomination in 1975 was still alive today he would have already left Nashville for Branson back in the late 1990's fed up with the new crap in Nashville that is called Country
It sucks I live close to Nashville and everywhere I go this shit "music" is played. Proud to be a metalhead!
Connor Stringfield same here also the music in my area is a mix
i wasn't crazy about the late 1980's Country Music but it was still much better than Country Music since 1990. The same problem with Pop Music and Soft Rock Music since 1990. Every Global Genre Music Industry became ruled by Hip Hop sounding crap since 1990. Even Country Music sounds more Hip Hop and Rap crap today than Country Music.
When I was growing up listening to country on the radio, you could easily tell who was singing because the had their own distinctive style from one another. I was like "hey that's Alabama, hey that's George Straight, Garth Brooks, Terri Clark," and so on. Nowadays everyone is overproduced, overhomogenized, and overformulaic. Nothing is interesting anymmore.
your videos are literally every thought I have had about music lol.
ldo you consider Gordian Lightfoot country? i need a professional opinion.
The only country artists I like overall is johnny cash and hank williams
Older Country is pretty badass. Marty Robbins, and Johnny Cash are my favorites.
Anthony Rintala yea I like old country but never liked new country.
Metal Dude The new country artists only sing about Dip, Tractors, Cold Ones, Trucks, and Whiskey.
Anthony Rintala yep
+Metal Dude Mines... Are Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson's old country music.
Nailed it...and two years later, country is dead. It's all this dude/bro country about exactly what you stated...dead on. Sick of the "Smalltown Throwdown", tribal tattoos, drinking, daisydukes, etc...and putting on this "tough guy/alpha" bullshit (when they're really betas), and being "outlaws and rebels" with a pop and hick hop sound. It's sad and disgusting.
agreed
I absolutely agree with you on this topic. Ha! Ha! Country music today has become reduced to pop music sung with a twang.
Awesome video, every point hits the mark. :)
hey Mark, have you seen Dave Grohls documentary Sound City? and what do you think of Dave Grohl creating his own TV show for HBO in which he presents different record studios in the us and records new music?
I don't think that all country today sucks. There is some good alt-country out there.
Texas country is real country not that Florida gay line people like forget all the that crap to premadana for my blood
Isreal Meza Premadana? Do you mean "prima donna"?
I Don't Like Your Language In This Video But I Have To agree With You why Today's Country Music Stinks I Like 80s And 90s Country Music!
it's funny how he talks about wanting Taylor swift to move away from country, and completely into pop, and in 2016, that's exactly what she's done. well predicted, well predicted...
Although not completely country, Whiskey Myers is a hell of a southern rock band. A southern rock/country band that actually evolves with each album...
Although some of these are good reasons. Only certain artists are hit by these. You said why "modern country sucks", a lot of modern country singers however, don't fit into these reasons.
You are so right about dartboard lyrics. Its FUCKING terrible. Derivative to downright ripoff.
Good point on people from different areas and different experiences circumstances giving their input on Country Music, ie. "someone who has had to live in the streets." All I've got to say is look at 'Gus Van Zandt' and the craft he left, but asking for an artist to emerge that is even half as sincere and 'real' is probably too much to ask for in today's Country music industry. Screw Nashville! Perhaps Memphis (home of the blues) needs to be built up as the 'Alternative' home for Country.
i AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT COUNTRY MUSIC TODAY. BLAKE SHELTON STILL MAKES SOME MUSIC THAT IS INTERESTING AND COUNTRY VOICE.
what do you get when you play a country song backwards?
Jason Braun it's good
The one behind these artists admitted that he hated the true sound of Country Music.
George Strait admitted that Nashville was ruining Country Music even in the late 1990's.
I do like George Strait.
Pre 2000's Country Music was better than today's Country Music.
+JustForBrieLarson i may get flak for this, but i like the dixie chicks, especially their third album
You fixated for a bit on the various country music award shows, I'm curious, does your negative opinion of award shows for one genre extend to the Golden Gods?
I wouldn't want to go to a Chinese restaurant having my heart set on Chinese, and get a plate of half Chinese and half Mexican food.... That's what we get with country these days whether we ask for it or not. Put this little insert of rap in it and drive me nuts!!! Not that I don't like it from time to time... JUST DONT MIX MY CHINESE FOOD WITH MEXICAN!!!!!!
D s I'm a huge metalhead love band's like cradil of Filth, behemoth, Nile, septic flesh, Celtic Frost. but I do like shooter Jennings.
Country. Ugh. Never liked it to be honest. For me the title would have been "why country has always sucked."
I disagree. I think Jonny Cash was over rated trucker music. "Little Convoy?" What the hell was that?
***** Folsom Prison and Ring of Fire are the only examples people can ever give me of songs they like, which shows me most of the people who defend his music just parrot what others say. I swear, it has become the "cool thing" to defend his music, but I have no clue as to why. It is just as twangy and hillbilly-ish as the rest of country music. Folsom Prison was just as lame as everything else he did. Two chord vamps are too simple for me. Country music as a whole is lame as shit....including Johnny Cash. I respect that he went the "dark" route (why he was considered dark is beyond me)....but even that is too lame for me.
+metaleer1979x I don't know if you'll respond to this or not, but "I Walk the Line" and my favorite Cash song "I've Been Everywhere" are songs that I recommend you check out.
I agree, and honestly it gives me a headache. It also seems to be popular that these fuckers are mixing a bit of hip-hop in their songs, i.e. Florida Georgia Line. Next thing, you know they will try to throw in some pathetic dubstep in their songs.
I like the old country in the new country music
(Texas Music Scene) Turnpike Troubadour's "Down Here" :-)
Country music has that popish blend in it because pop and others generally sell out fast then country so artist do anything for that money and so they get more fans
I'm 58..I was born in 1963 and grew up in Phoenix, Az so I grew up with the famous rock of the 60s, 70s, 80s famous "classic rock" but I also grew up with in the glory country years, too. Goerge jones, and Conway Twitty (whom I LOVED) Dolly, and Willie, and all the other famous country acts and I loved it all. I'd go from Bohemian Rhapsody to Momma Tried--There is little doubt I grew up in THE golden era of music. When I was born the Beatles were just about to hit--Ive lived threw it all. From Dion and the Belmonts to Black Sabbath....but NOW?? 2022?? WHAT CRAP!!!??!??!?!? Music is DONE, just like our country. All good things come to an end, sadly. I am a musician and I teach "The History of Rock n Roll" at a University (which is one if not THE most popular course on campus ( I have over 120 students a class with a waiting list) and every kid agrees. music SUCKS now. My theory is that there mathematical+there are only a finite amount of notes. You cant invent a new "A" or "C"--you cant invent the new "H" note. EVER--so what makes a song is how and where you place those finite notes in what is called a song. Well--I believe the "ideas" have been used up. There is no more "room" for a new song. So what do they do?? S#^%# like country rap and autotune in country. PUER CRAP--If it wasnt for The Weekend (foll needs to change that name--he played the superbowl and no one knows his name, lol) whom I like (because he is a 80s/90s throwback. How about the biggest COUNTRY star is from AUSTRALIA. How UN-AUTHENTIC. Know who was AUTHENTIC?? Merle haggard. Merle wasnt from India or Japan--Country is all about Americana. The fact that that frosted-tip australian rules country is a perfect example of how contrived and fake it is now. The first time I heard country rap--I almost took my own life--it's THAT BAD. Modern country is PURE CRAP
Country music , like all music from America, derived from black slave and rhythm and blues songs. Befor you go off and brag how the Carter family and Jimmie Rogers started it all, know this. They were only the first to "record" the sound, but learned the guitar picking, harmonizing and melodies as well as the moaning lyrics from black slave songs and blues. The bluegrass sound was in fact from Irish, Scottish and English folk songs, but the banjo aspect was brought into play from blacks (it is an African instrument) and as country became the sound we hear today, and especially over the last twenty years. The only sound close to country white immigrants contributed was from these three genres, because the music played in Europe and being brought over at that time was Baroque, Polka and maybe a small collection of folk genre from given countries, usually forgotten once moved though, aside from the Irish, which is how bluegrass was born. Country and rock both were born from the same thing, and many black artists were deprived of their music, or even given the recognition they deserved. People like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis admitted to learning how to dance, play and sing from going to black bars and nightclubs. Bands like Led Zeppelin, and even Elvis took black songs and made millions, giving the true artists nothing. Maybelle Carter claimed to be the first to play a guitar with a certain finger style(basic chicken pickin) which was learned from banjo playing by blacks when they began playing guitar, it may have been new to her, but was being done WAY befor she began doing it. American music today aside from classical, is all black rooted, and boy am I glad, it would have been boring if it was not.....
That stuff they have today all sounds alike nothing like George Jones and Merle Haggard both good but different
I love country, being someone raised in Texas, I completely agree with you.
you remind me of a version of Ozzy Osbourne that sits in his room all day playing WoW xD
Music has been getting dumbed down for about 100 years now. Classical music was WAY more complex than anything put out in the last 70 years. Early jazz, country, rock. The chords structures were much more complex than todays music. Rap has reduced "music" to a bass guitar and a bass drum kicking your brain stem over and over and over.
Exactly WHY would music regress in complexity? One would think the opposite would happen. That we would get bored and want MORE complicated arrangements.
I really do not have the answer.
One plausible answer is we require performers to be better looking today. Its like if you took a beauty contest and made the talent portion 60% of the final score, the contestants would get less attractive over time right? Well the reverse is true as well. Is it really the BEST looking performers that have the most talent? In reality better looking people tend to be more shallow, less creative as they have less reason to look deeper into themselves since the world is fixated on their appearance. This is not THE reason for crappier music, but likely part of it.
You hit the nail on the head. I mean like direct hit. Absolute truth!
Right on, Coverkillernation ♪♪
clicked on your channel. seen a Warbringer shirt. subbed \m/
There's a duet with two skinny dudes one blonde with long hair and one brunet with short hair. I never heard such wantabe country music in my life. I don't know who these guys are, but man what a bunch of prissiness weird crap they sing.
By any chance are you referring to Flordia Georgia Line?
Roark Tenjouin Haha I might be. If they sing mostly about dirt roads and trucks then it's them.
yep, It's Florida Georgia, can't really think of anyone else that does that.