Why is country always ripped?

[jacco vermeulen]

Originally posted by mateo88
Have any of you ever heard Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger album?

Willie Nelson is an icon........and scary !
I loved all of his movie performances, anyone remember the Billy Idol clip ?

[mercator]

SY inquired:

is kd lang Country Music?

I would say that anyone who rose to fame on the basis of having a voice like Patsy Cline would have to be considered country.

She would have to be considered an outlaw, though, since she has made a successful career in spite of alienating many of her hometown fans.

/Dave

[ocool_15]

For music I guess i would have to say that country typically talks about uninteresting things and younger generations(I'm 21 btw) have a harder time connecting to the music. Also it would be considered uncool I would think.I would say that my normal music would be rap(Lil jon alot) but for sonic performance my favorite CD as of yet is Leann Rimes-I need you.
When I have a stereo and i want to hear the performance of it I use this CD as a whole instead of selected tracks from a variety of artists. I found her self titled album to have too much of a country sound and not as much to my interests.

[sweet]

Originally posted by homer09
First of all, all you "i love everything except country music" are just full of crap. I just see it as such an arogant comment. Im sure there are tons of styles of music out there you've never even heard of (native indian music, death metal, funk etc) that you would also hate. what you should really say is "i listen to everything ON POP RADIO except country".

Second of all, to answer the question of the initial post, people say that, because country just isnt COOL to most groups of people. If i went around (20 year old) at school telling people i listen to country, they would mock me. If i did the same with hip-hop they would praise me. Music today is no longer about music, ITS ABOUT WHAT IS POPULAR AND COOL AT THE MOMENT AND LOCATION. I really despise that and is why i can't stand those pop stations, its all garbage formula music designed for your liking, to play on the radio 20 times a day and become the new "image" instead of the new "sound".

The music i listened to, almost exclusively, is made by bands/artists that make music THEY like, and want to make. They are not trying to please fans or sell more albums. This, is music. The rest is just an industry trying to make profit on the popular song of the day (which hasnt been country for a long time).

I couldn't have said it better

Originally posted by SY
Just a dumb taxonomic question- is kd lang Country Music?

Yes KD Lang is Country but she was shunned by Nashville for two reasons.
1) She is a Lesbian
2) She played her own style and would not conform to what they wanted her to play.

[timsch75]

Willie Nelson's "Red-headed Stranger" was mentioned. For anyone who says they can't stand country should listen to the forementioned album, and any other album willie put out in the 70's. Other artists from the same era such as Merle Haggard, Leon Russel, etc. should be listened to also. If you still think country music as a genre sucks, is formulaic, and/or has no emotion then so be it. Until then, it's probable that you've just heard the commercial puke that passes for country on the radio these days. Those albums from Willie in the '70's are some of the greatest music ever recorded. Also, there is alot of alt.country that will make your head spin. The Bad Livers play (actuallly past tense, since they've disbanded) "country" if they play anything, but I guarantee you it won't be like anything you've ever heard before. They're simply amazing musicians.

Definitely don't judge country music by the radio.