The Descent of SNL, Austin City Limits, & The Rolling Stone (A rant)
So on Saturday night, I get a phone call from a friend who knows I like pop country about as much as getting a splintered board shoved up my ass, telling me that the perfume peddling Timberly McGraw is...
View ArticleCountry Taking Submissive Role To Rap in Mono-Genre
With Kid Rock hosting the CMT Awards, with country rapper Colt Ford performing, and with Jason Aldean and Ludacris closing the show out with a rap song, you can make the case that 15%-20% of the 2011...
View ArticleJason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem” (Review & Roast)
Jason Aldean's country-rap breakthrough hit "Dirt Road Anthem" is climbing the charts, and after the recent release of the video and his performance with Ludacris at the CMT Awards, I suspect it will...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Must Lead, Not Follow with Hip-Hop
It usually takes 6-9 months for the bloated machine of Music Row to realize and catch up on trends, but no doubt that within the next few months, we will begin to see more and more hip-hop infiltration...
View ArticleThe Destruction of America’s Distinct Musical Dialects
When President Obama won re-election last Tuesday, he said in his speech that what makes America strong is not that it has the greatest wealth in the world, or because it has the strongest military, or...
View ArticleUggh…That Ain’t Country (A Pictorial Revue Vol. 1)
If you've found you're eyeballs affixed to these very words, you've likely found yourself at some point trying to explain that you like country, but not that type of country. Once many artists get to...
View ArticleHow Hip-Hop Stole Country Music: The Arrival of the Mono-Genre
All of a sudden hip-hop influences are dominating the top of the country music charts, asserting just as much influence, if not more than indigenous country influences, with a bevy of new country rap...
View ArticleMost Embarrassing Moments in Country Music History
When looking at the historical timeline of country music, many times it is big events that set the wheels of change in motion, for the good and the bad. Whether it is intrusion of pop or rap into...
View ArticleBrad Paisley Rebelling Against Sony Music? My Ass.
Brad Paisley has been making quite the spectacle on Twitter over the last two days, claiming to be leaking bits and pieces of his upcoming album Moonshine In The Trunk against the will of his label...
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