This beat is killing country music
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2018
- Country music has been taken over by snap tracks, and it's killing the whole vibe. Hence this video, made with LOVE for country music, in which I argue why I think this percussive emphasis is doing the genre a disservice.
Keep in mind -- I like a handful of these songs, but the pervasiveness of this exact same beat is suffocating.
(And go easy on me -- I've never made a talk-through video essay before. Trying to step up my video editing game.)
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Literally the best comment I've ever seen
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xxxsanyeo you’re right. I’ll change it
It is pop music with a southern accent.
True that
But rlly even there, I live in the south always have, and I have always been told I have a very heavy accent by people. This isn’t a southern accent, it’s a fake attempt that makes them sound like squidward
Why is this too accurate
Oh god, this!
My thoughts exactly
That forced southern accent sound also drives me nuts. If you dont have the accent then dont fake it, it sounds way too exaggerated
Especially when he says kitchen like keeatchennn
OH WOW!!!!! Thank you!!!😂😂😂😂😂👍 I HATE HOW FAKE IT IS.
Yessss!!!!!
SIMPS. sorry hopeless SAPS
Kain Brown...
ive never given a shit about country music but the youtube algorithm recommended your channel to me and now here i am deeply invested in it
To me at least, listen to Johnny Cash first. You'll get hooked with country pretty damn soon.
Top songs to recommend
-Kris Kristofferson: Sunday Morning Comin Down.
-Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr: The conversation
-Townes Van Zandt: Waitin around to die
-Billy Joe shaver: Good Christian Soldier
-Waylon Jennings: Rose in paradise
-Highwaymen: Desperados Waiting for a Train
-Waylon and Willie: Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
-Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Hero’s
These are just some of my favorite ones. Maybe you will enjoy them too. Really focus on the lyrics.
Whiskey lullaby by Brad Paisley an Alison Krauss, he stopped loving her today by George Jones, the chair by George strait, i’m so lonesome I could cry by Hank Williams Senior, where were you when the world stopped turning by Alan Jackson, and the moon song by Conway Twitty.
If you’re looking for new stuff check out the album heartache medication from John party.
Yes
Douchy-sounding guys singing is the best description of pop-country I've ever heard. My god, do I ever hate pop-country. Just painful
You people hating on this act like y’all grew up on a farm or some shit when you just sound like uppity queens!
@@djsurferdude fun fact: you don't have to grow up on a farm to like old country music....also new pop-country honestly is just so shallow (not saying that pop isn't but at least if the lyrics are shallow in pop, the mix of the song sounds nice or vice versa). I could listen to the country station all day and I will still think I've only heard like two different songs because they all sound the same. With pop, I can hear Billie eillish, Lizzo, Ariana grande, maroon 5, and The Weeknd and they all have completely different sounds. We are loosing a lot with this country pop era.
@@Bee-kv5tx - I just get sick and tired of (rojo) necks hating on Kenny Chesney, Kane Brown etc because they’re so called not country. It’s all about political bs. They’re too liberal for them. I mean honestly you have to be a real pussy if you have to carry around a fire arm everywhere you go. Talk about fucking snowflakes.
Pop Country is my favorite genre when done well(Taylor Swift’s Fearless album, for example). But it’d be a lie to say that it doesn’t sound the same on the radio. It’s so insanely oversimplified and it ruins everything.
@@Bee-kv5tx i don't listen to country a lot but those artists you mentioned earlier have DIFFERENT genres. ariana grande has r&b influences, lizzo is more likely a funk-pop, billie eilish has melancholy pop and indie pop sounds, the weekend staple himself with r&b soul. they have a very different genre with a "pop" umbrella for being popular.
Pop is pop. Mainstream country is just Pop with southern accents and cowboy costumes. True originality is completely gone at that level.
Fake Southern accents...
Most of these dudes singing mainstream arent country they are pretty boys playing dress up
I've said for years that all new country stars get their accents from mail-order catalogs.
I still love chris Stapleton
Facts
The fingersnap beat is killing all genres, really.
Not Metal, not yet....
Yeah moments like these I’m proud to be a TOOL fan.
@@nojton3053 metal wouldn't allow it, too soft
Not or ska or reggae
Just imagine Gojira using finger snaps at 300 beats per minute, that would be a spectacle... :P
I blame Florida Georgia Line - Cruise. I feel like that was the beginning of the shift in country music, realizing they can make country/pop and make it mainstream but still technically call it country.
That song is my villain origin story
Cruise is, at its core a hip hop/rap song
The downfall started way before then.
I think it was Taylor Swift honestly, she started as pure country back in 2007
They are copying reaggaeton.
Country used to be really great back when every country artist shot at least one person
Is this some kind of achievement you have to get to unlock the country skill tree?
@@veterayt6800 basically, to complete the first level you have to get addicted to cocaine. Second level is shooting someone
"But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." - Johnny Cash
@@lilgarbage3796 third level is pills with your cocaine
@@dylangrigsby3904 final level is downing a bottle of whiskey in 6 seconds flat
Current country is just pop music with a cowboy hat.
Or neon cowboy boots
And mullets
Rock music with a twang, R&B/Rap with a twang, it should not be called 'country' at all
I stay away from anything called 'Nu Country'
true dat
It actually has a genre. Derived from the words Country and Rap. We here at the studio like to refer to it as CRap.
I fuckin love how true that is
Thank you! Sombody understands!
@David Tucker tractor rap, classic!
Aiden Macleod this...this is it 😂
Im CTFUUUUUU lolol
Been listening to bluegrass lately for this very reason. The instrumentalists and vocal harmonies make the music.
That's cause bluegrass ironically keeps to its root while country is just a template for pretty people to use for easy money. I mean doesn't it feel like you could replace any current pop country artist for some random guy from Austin or North Carolina and not notice anything different?
I can’t actually tell male country singers a part. At least female artists are more likely to have a personality.
True, the sad thing is while its more likely its never *guaranteed*
I agree. They do all sound the same with the exception of guys like Justin Moore. If you want to know when pop country actually started, its the 90s. Late 90s with the likes of Lonestar post John Rich and what a lot of people don't want to accept or admit is the biggest name that started the drift towards pop country... GARTH BROOKS.
Yeah but then when a male country singer is different, he’s completely different from the rest. (Colter Wall is one)
ME TOOO. I always just assume it’s someone named Luke Bryan or something
Me too. It's great when they go on stage with half their personality hanging out of their shorts.
I respect women I promise. They do actually belt it out sometimes and really show some character in their music.
Country now days is Tractor Rap
oh yeah yeah
Thank you for this comment
In other words...
*_T R A P ?_* Eh?
@@JazzyUnderscoreTrumpeter :0
Ikr, it doesn't even sound like country music anymore. It abandoned it's roots and now it sounds like a cheap version of pop music.
My dad calls a lot of the new country “hick hop” it’s so true and sad..
"Hick hop" 🤣🤪 what a wonderful description
There's already a hick hop artist. His name's Cowboy Troy.
Music for cunts
That is so good. I lol’d
Soy country. John Wayne was still alive would put all of them over his knee for being such fake cowboy hat wearing pussies.
And that’s why I like artists like Johnny cash, Marty Robbins, and Waylon Jennings.
Yes! The only country I can tolerate
Named some good ones
Yess!! I love them. Especially Marty’s songs.
Never been a country music fan but the 90s was the last bearable decade for popular country music. We used to have Waylon, Willie, etc singing about addiction, hard living, and mistakes. Now it’s just “Drinking a pitcher of beer, I wanna stay here. girl we are in the fields, rolling down the windows, your hair and smile blowing in the wind and blowing my mind. Lighting a bonfire, girl we’re getting higher. Sanging countries songs with friends all night long. Yea!” 👏 👏
P.S. i made up these lyrics in less than 30 seconds to show how easy and talentless these people are. Seriously, 30 seconds and I could 100% see this being in a country song on the radio.
"Country music today is hip hop for people who are afraid of black people"
- Steve Earle
Holy shit
Steve Earle is part of that group of artists who I'll still happily listen to anytime.
@@vladimirpolak5203, you have the grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation of a 1st grader. FOH
Your comment is bad and you should feel bad.
😂
so damn true
A lot of country music *USED* to be storytelling. Take, for example, "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins or "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell.
Yeah I really miss those storytelling songs. Especially the ones that at least in part don't involve singing, like the last verse in "Son Don't Go Near The Indians" (I see Star Wars ran with that idea later)
But it had rhythm and creative vocal phrasing.
You know, people gave Taylor shit about her country sound back in the day, but damn, at least her storytelling was eloquent and she knew what kind of instruments fit in a song and which didn't. At least when she ditched it, she went full in. And no one can try and tell me Love Story, You Belong With Me, Picture to Burn, or Our Song sounds less like country than whatever Nelly and Florida Georgia Line spew out.
TS is talentless and only where she's at bc she name-dropped Tim Mcgraw when she was a country-music poser. Leftist-Communist
The snap killed half the universe too
Choossy Yt Taylor Swift is inevitable
Ha! I see what you did there. ;)
Lmafo
I scrolled past this comment and then went back to it and understood immediately
Ah, yes, a timely reference. Very relatable.
People today who say they can't stand country, this is what they're thinking of. Can't even blame em at this point
Old country is great, new country sucks so bad. If they actually had a real accent when saying, “yee haw”, well, they would say, “yee haw.” But instead, they say, “YEA hAwhrrr.” This is coming from a Texan, so take it seriously.
I hate country music but give me Big Iron On His Hip anyday
Old country is great.
good country doesn’t have electronic instruments, or in the very least uses it sparsely. country is supposed to make you feel like you’re up in the mountains, or sitting by the barn, or dipping your feet in the creek, things like that. i’m speaking as both a musician and a country dweller. i listen to (good) country with my family because it brings me back to my roots, and i’m sure that’s the reason why lots of people listen to it on their lonesome. with such a dramatic change in the genre, there’s barely any touch with its roots, which makes it sound. watered down. and unpleasant.
Actually those people who say that (which I know a lot of people who do) are talking about old country, they’re in to pop, and the snap tracks are more of a pop thing.
I shouldn't have watched this video. Before I would just kinda brush past the "snaps" but now I'm going to be hyperaware of them every time I listen to any music, especially country. xD
Have never had any interest in country music at all, but coming from the hip-hop (specifically UK) and grime side of things, you've gained a new sub bc this was super interesting, well put together and shows we're not too different after all : )
It's all about keeping it real - respect and love from Aus!
shit, now i need a bakersfield/grime crossover
I'll be honest. I'm an EDM/Metal artist who doesn't even like Country that much. But it still saddens me to see it imitate pop.
@Justin Blevins That's kind of the gist of it. I've been working for a few years trying to figure out the dynamics of it all. Making both styles blend together is a lot harder than I originally thought it would be. I also do a lot of experimental with metal, hip-hop, and edm influences.
I'm still learning my scales, but trust me, I don't settle for the easy stuff. When I make music, it needs be meaningful in both lyrics and instrumentaion.
Thanks for the artist recommendations! I will definitely check them out! Btw is there a place I can check out any music you do?
Aye man do you have any music on here or any other sites?
If ylu are a fan of metal ylu might alsp like bluegrass. Its like country musics metal counter part but with all acpustic instruments. Also psychobilly and gutter punk might be u fucki your alley
Check out the maker by goddamn gallows live version and get back to me
@@DBL304 I have one song, but it's not not metal. "Dresser" by Vividity (my artist name).
It's pop and hip hop against everyone else these days...pop and hip hop seem to be winning.
It’s just pop music with an overly exaggerated accent
Shhhh don't let them know it's all the same
@@imchipjames I hadn't listened to mainstream country in years, (never was a huge country guy) and was a little blown away when I heard all this stuff. I made that literal comment.
@@EricLS i can't comment about music without writing paragraphs so I'll just agree :D
Makes you wonder how many of these buffoons are just playing a role and embracing every trope necessary to appear "country".
@@TheJollyMisanthrope Every single one of them.
If anyone wants to hear a modern band do more classic country, I recommend the album “Long Lost” by Lord Huron. The album was made with a great love and passion for what country once was and this passion really shows. Great instruments, great vocals, and great stories in the lyrics.
Not familiar with Lord Huron, but I just previewed and bought this album. Love it!
Never considered them to be "country", let alone "classic country", but I do love them. I especially love their steady, "train chuggaluggin", percussive element that tends to serve as the backbone driving the songs along.
@@McPickleness Oh certainly, the band as a whole would be considered "indie folk," probably, but they like to draw inspiration from all sorts of older music, mixing everything from folk, rock, rockabilly, country, and etc. into some really great songs. Their most recent album is the one that is most heavily inspired by older country music, but it is still new take on things and not a 100% recreation of the old genre.
I do think that was kind of the point of this RUclips video essay, though - that experimentation is fine, if it has passion and creativity behind it. But what "country" is currently doing lacks any passion and creativity.
Carrie Underwood has not gone down to this either.
Old video but you make a good point about the drums. My father was a banjo player in a bluegrass band. There was rarely ever a drum and if it was there, it was usually just a snare played with brushes. It was the job of the bass player to keep the time and add a click slap when they wanted a beat tick. I never really noticed the snap/clap thing and will probably not be able to unhear it now. It reminds me of the millennial whoop. Once you hear it and notice it, you find it everywhere.
All the lyrics sound like a 10 year old wrote them.
No, it sounds like it was wrote by an 8yo who has grew up in the city and saw a corny Christmas movie and said, “Yes, that’s how love works.”
Body like a back road is a whole metaphor about sex
Meant to be is used by pandering to people who think everybody has a “Significant other” and love doesn’t have to actually grow
it boils down to backroads, neon lights, trucks, beer, and girls. Atleast like 90 percent of it, or seems so atleast
It's written for 14 year olds who think they know what love is
When rock was king, mainstream country sounded like rock with a twang. Now that hip hop is king, mainstream country sounds like hip hop with a twang.
this is fantastic.
Makes perfect sense. Well said.
it seems like its all about sales, and hypocrisy. blame it on the devil.
HAIL SATAN!
You're not wrong.
Nailed it. This should be the top comment.
I've been making fun of my girlfriend for listening to this on the radio. Been saying the same thing. I miss the old school country
Yeah, top40 Country sucks ass. But, there's still excellent country music out there. Check out : Tyler Childers, Ryan Adams, Neko Case, Limbeck, Luke Doucet, Nikki Lane, Margo Price, Sturgil Simpson, Justin Townes Earle, The Old '97s, [early] Wilco, Jade Jackson, Kathleen Edwards, Traceyanne & Danny, Katy J. Pearson and Amelia Curan
whats sad is some of them have good voices.
its no insult to sing like dolly george tammy or marty
you dont need to change somthing that was already great
The men, in particular, don't really even sing anymore. They sing talk, just talking in tune. Country music today is completely unlistenable for me. So terrible that I cannot turn it off fast enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if the politically correct modern society would call for the hanging of any artist who sang songs like the olden days. Look at songs like Baby It's Cold Outside.. Political correctness has killed modern music just as much as anything else. A music video like Garth Brooks did for Thunder Rolls would NEVER fly in modern society with the MeToo movement and such.
They literally took the beat from 2000s hip hop and R&B, waited til most people forgot about it, then added a little twang guitar and some pandering, "good ol' boy" lyrics, then mass produced it and injected it into the radio bloodstream.
NeoTenic so trueeee
And passed it off as completely organic
Exactly
And this is exactly why I say that Old Town Road is just as much country as anything else on mainstream radio. It's all just pop and rap with a little twang and drawl. The only real difference is that Old Town Road is by a black dude.
@@SynthApprentice exactly
I can't lie, I don't automatically hate these songs but ever since I first heard you mention the snap track I can't unhear it.
Noooooooooo
same
Each snap screams for my attention now, as if I was plugging in headphones while wearing them.
Head to cody jinks....sturgill Simpson and tyler childers.
Well you're a moron so...
Not exactly a country fan but I’m glad someone said it. I live in a small town where modern country is suuuuuper popular. Very few people around here notice how formulaic it truly is.
I kinda feel like Florida Georgia Line is like Nickelback. They release the money maker singles but the majority of the rest of the albums are decent country. They get too much hate.
Big facts
Country version of Nickelback?
People just want something to hate to feel better about themselves. Doesn’t matter if they deserve it or not
Having purchased the first Nickelback album in ‘01, they get the hate they deserve. There may be some “catchy tunes”, but they are “artists” like my dog is a connoisseur. Same for FGL.
None of this is country music....
They just have southern accents, that doesn't make it Country lmao
NJOverclocked music genres evolve I guess
Thank you. New country is garbage.
Most country listeners aren't known for their discerning tastes.
@@simonjohnston9488 You don't know what you're talking about. This garbage exists because young women buy it.
NJOverclocked country music is a wide era that the music ranged from
It's gone from country to Hick Hop
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Brilliant! Can I use that? Hick Hop!!!!!!!!
😂😁😄😅😃
Actually hick hop is Country Rap. Such as Upchurch.
Oh fuck no 😂😂😂
I had the honor of playing pedal steel in a traditional country band. It wasn't until later in the band's life that we allowed the drummer to use anything other than a kick, snare and hat. Used sparingly, a full kit was allowed, but we never played anything newer than a few choice 80s country covers and our audience loved everything we played. Even the younger fans loved us! Country isn't dead, it just smells funny (modified quote from Frank Zappa on Jazz). I'm hoping the snap beat is cyclical and Country will go back toward its roots...the sooner, the better.
my favorite country tune is Just To See You Smile, and I cannot even comprehend it having such a lifeless beat. That song kicks my heart in the teeth every time I listen to it.
1:00
“Wheels rolling on an *old* Toyota”
*shows a brand new Toyota*
🤨 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Could have easily used "the" instead of "an"
Or willie or Waylon
胡david but why?
@@jch8175 because it doesn't have to mean the Toyota is physically old. "The old" or "the ol'" means familiar, so maybe the owner has driven it a lot
It doesn’t even sound like country anymore.
reaper. It sounds like Christian music with the holy words taken out.
You just need a too talk about a truck with a southern accent that's all you need for country
Not fun to 2 step to this shite.
One of the greatest songs I've ever heard recently was Dick in Dixie by Hank 3! It is the biggest f*** you to pop country ever and I love it!!
SACRAMENTO LOST LIKE TWO STATIONS CUZ NO ONE LISTENS ANYMORE
And this is why I listen to real country in Orville Peck...dude is full old school to the core with a killer voice
So glad somebody actually adresses this.. I have Misophonia, a condition that makes certain sounds irritate me beyond reason, and this snapping or fingersnapping or however you want to call it is making me go crazy, I just have to change the song immediately. I wish they would stop it and go back to using you know, an actual musical instrument? I agree that it's a disgusting trend, not only in country music, in all generes.
What about the over-redundant use of unoriginal lyrics and the same words like: neon signs, tailgate, dirt road, etc.
And they are all the same chord progression.
Country always seemed like the most pandering of all genre.
@@joesickler5888 I think it is just the culture who listens to country has changed. They are emotionally immature and less intelligent. They can't handle the strong emotions that country used to make you feel. They have no attention span. And, aren't intelligent enough to relate to the deeper meanings and stories that were about something real and had heart and meaning.
Tyler Brandon Ok
Goin down a dirt road chasing neon lights. Sittin on my tailgate drinkin ice cold Bud light......
Every country song here lately. I haven't listened to country music since 2002. It sucks so bad now.
Modern country music: Pop music doing a bad country accent.
Exactly! So pisses me off when someone says they love country and then are like did you hear Florida Georgia Lines new song? Ughhh!!!
Hyperatek you are exactly right brother.
I was just going to comment something similar. Country music isn't really country music anymore.
@@Pineappleparty when music lost its soul, this is where you go. I don't understand how this can be labeled as "country". Money and fame are the only obvious motivations here.
More like pop music with trucks instead of lamborghinis, cowboy hats instead of gucci, and nashville instead of Los Angeles
I don't have a problem with some of these songs individually, but I definitely feel overwhelmed by how much of it there is. I think my main issue is that country music seems to have a habit of everyone doing the same thing at once
You’re reminding me what I used to love, and really miss, about country music
How to fix it? Easy. Replace every snap with cowbell. Need more cowbell.
most of it sounds like pop rnb anyways so that woulf br a great differantiator
that's still not enough. needs more cowbell.
I've got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell.
@@mundih bayonetta said something like that
@@royal3rabeats637 ok, I was quoting Christopher Walken ;) (don't know who bayonetta is)
Johnny Cash would die again watching this.
he used it.
Johnny Cash was pretty open minded. Hell he covered Nine Inch Nails.
Johnny cash stole music from others and acted like he wrote it. Shame
@@thegreenwave6741 can't steal music, you also can't steal enlish or chinese
It's so sick and disgusting I could not listen to it all
Haha love you. This is an on-going discussion/debate in our house. Completely agree it’s not traditional country but this country girl loves both. I wholeheartedly respect and appreciate traditional country but also dig new country or maybe better called country-pop.
Your video just made my partner’s day :)
I rewatched this video for the first time in a long time and...I must say....I love the energy. I literally laughed out loud when you said "here's some suggestions to help this" and its a vic firth drum tutorial hahhahahaha
Hick-Hop
Yup
Not really hick hop is more hip hop with country elements while this country music is more counrty music with hip hop production. And elements
LMFAO! I'm totally using this term from now own
Adam Calhoun and Ryan Upchurch are hick hop. Not this trash
93OakTrees agreed more like Hick Pop
Country music died years ago. This is a completely different genre hiding under a cowboy hat.
Well said
Garth Brooks was the first strike.
There are some great guys in country right now with Cody Jinks, Tyler Childers, and Sturgill Simpson. They aren’t popular, but they’re on the right track as far as country evolution goes.
The very nature of modern music is that it changes rapidly. There's still "traditional" country being produced today you're just to close minded to see it.
dont forget the far right political leanings.
Do you remember when you used to put on an album and be excited to hear each musician pour their heart and soul into a song? remember being excited for each part of a song like a movie with twistd and turns and highs and lows? The guys have had the country station on for the last two weeks at the shop and there is absolutely zero excitement with the new country songs. I was never a huge country fan but i could get behind brad paisley shredding on his tele and any REAL musician doing what they love!!
Amen! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I’ve been feeling this for 10 years. I grew up on country music but man the music on country radio today is so very shallow. I miss those Reba story songs that left you feeling all kinds of emotions.
Country roads
*snap*
Take me home
*snap*
oh no
Lmfao that is priceless😂😂
lmao good lord
To a place
*snap*
I belong
*snap*
@@jdm2626 i said ohhhh nooo
then clicked show comments....
Maybe Thanos was trying to warn us about the snap to end country music.
Yeah lol 😂
Lol 🤪maybe
Nah it’s thanos snapping his fingers to the beat
Best comment ever
I love you!
not a country fan but i stan dolly parton forever 😍😍
i love the way you analyze music. your videos are interesting even to people who might not be regular country music listeners.
I really want to say thank you. This is the best video on RUclips. I miss country music and I’m exhausted of people saying “I thought you liked country music”. Thank you for this video
I believe it was Tom Petty who said there is no more country music anymore, just bad pop music with banjos.
He's right.
But, but, Kacey Musgraves :(
Anything that is remotely good is called "folk" to avoid the radiation of the country genre
Now it's bad pop music with SAMPLES of banjos.
Tom Petty was right on. Country music has been dead for around 35 years.
Finally, someone being honest about the decline of quality country music. This new wave of country pop is pretty cheesy and cliché.
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Its not even country bro
Same shit happened in Rock and look where it is now. I'm glad there is a solid backlash but it's still a damn shame the mainstream hasn't caught up with it yet.
Sean7 microwaved. The thing of the day
I don't know about you guys, but I listen to music that sounds good, and that I like. I listen to everything! I love metal, and jazz, blues, country, rap, pop, hip hop. Anything that sounds good. Who cares if it's not "traditional" the very nature of modern music is that it changes and it changes fast! Shut up and enjoy it.
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I listened to Rock and Roll for over 30 years until it disappeared, my wife has always liked country and over the last ten years I've gotten used to liking country music, to me? it's patriotic music and most of it's easier to play with a acoustic guitar, but I agree, the famous artists of today need to decide who they want to listen to them. It sounds like they want to pull in all of the hip/hop, (C)rap, funk music. If I liked that kind of music, I'd be listening to it on a station that plays that kind of music. For all you country music fans like me, that want some beautiful acoustic guitar with lyrics that mean something instead of repetition ad nauseam. People that don't like it can get it back the way they want it, how ? don't listen to it on the radio, don't waste your money on concert tickets and quit buying music you don't like, if this movement gets big enough, we'll get the kind of music we want back. My mom gave me great words of wisdom, "If you try to please everybody, you're going to piss somebody off". She was right.
I've felt this about contemporary country for quite a while. Your articulation in this video of what I've felt for years is perfect. Pop with a fake southern accent. Yup.
2019: Mainstream country producers discover early 00's R&B beats.
Exactly those drums are damn near 20 years old haha
Dead ass...you nailed it
Sickening with fake cheesy Southern accents...dooshbags in skinny jeans..horrible
Americana and Bluegrass is where it’s at, until everyone else find out.
Get into 50s blues rockabily!
Gotta show some love to the Outlaw Oldies👍🏻
Yep! Love me some John Prine, Colter wall, Blaze Foley, Townes, etc...
Billy Strings is the good shit!
May I suggest Charlie Poole
He put that ✨👏🏻 bottle to his ✨👏🏻head and pulled the ✨👏🏻trigger
And finally ✨👏🏻drank away her ✨👏🏻memory
We found him ✨👏🏻 face down in the ✨👏🏻 pillow
With a note that ✨👏🏻said I'll love her till ✨👏🏻 I die
And when we ✨👏🏻 buried him beneath the ✨👏🏻 willow
Brad P. featuring Alison K. AKA 'Ali from the block' yo yo yo...🤠
your stuff is a good man. You have a great communication style. I don't know a lot about the country. I am this way about musical theatre stuff. I will tend to comment on that the way you are with country. Look forward to seeing more stuff.
I think the bigger issue is the fact that every country song contains the words 'pick up truck", "whiskey" and at least one US state.
Has to be a flyover state or it doesn’t count.
This is the perfect country song. ruclips.net/video/Sco_eBvXGTQ/видео.html
Saying that you should take into consideration that most of these people y’all look at as “country” their ancestors helped build this country or faught in a war
Jackie Kerr Ha ha! I knew it! 😀👍👏 Lol!
Mubble Mann don't forget "road" dirt road back road etc
I don't even listen to country, but I agree with this guy.
@@fnchrstphr I may not be a fan of country, but I can still understand how some instrument choices are better than others. This guy was nice enough to offer great examples of country music that sounded better but either used regular drum sticks, drum brushes, string instruments mimicking percussion, or no percussion at all. Very well presented video. Thumbnail and title are what got me to watch.
@@fnchrstphr - Also, JJtoob doesn't have to *know* it's true, to agree with the gent in the video. He also never implied that what was said in the video was true. Just that he agrees.
@@fnchrstphr it's a comment section,people can reply if they want
@@fnchrstphr someone that replied to you
fnchrstphr seems like you care for some reason 😂
I agree with this, especially the lyrical simplicity, but there's another thing to consider. Drums take the most space and the most mics to record properly and big studios have been hurting and closing for years, and this started well before 2020. The fake drum beats can be created in a bedroom.
I completely agree with you! The snap tracks take so much away from the mood and lyrics of the song!
Me: doesn’t even listen to that much country music
My recommendations: 🤠 🤠🤠
Nice pfp. Deku is a fucking GOOD BOY.
Don't even listen to it and I got this -- it's pretty annoying otherwise.
I hate country music and I got this recommended aswell
Ame Son same
So this is the "Mumble Rap" of Country music?
A Perez more like the “rap” of country music..
@@thealmighty6650agreed it is my favorite genres but you only need half a brain to make mumble rap
i was gonna say it’s the trap of country
No like mumble rap has been "ruining" rap music. I guess this "pop country" is "ruining" country overall. An Analogy
Yea my friend, I'm afraid it's true
I totally agree with you hun it makes me cry at times what they have done to country music. Please can you tell me who gave them the right to do this in the first place??? Love your clips keep them coming appreciate your time and effort thank you ❤️😘
I want to thank you for this excellent, stellar video!! You get it!! That's awesome!
There still are some great country singers out there, Mo Pitney for example. Btw the great Ernest Tubb brought drums to the Grand Ole Opry at a time when they were frowned upon! There's actually a drum on Your Cheatin Heart Hank Williams classic song. Btw YCH was done in one take, imagine that!
I love fiddle,steel,dobro, mandolin. Before drums in country music,the bass and the lead guitar would keep the rhythm. Bring Back Country Music Please!
Again great job, stellar video and keep up the great work!!
This isn't even country. It's pop with a southern accent.
You are correct.
Twangy pop
Country is hip hop for folks who are afraid of black people.
I thought so too.
I get that I mean take away the accent add autotune and you got lot of radio "indie pop" that doesn't have "the vibe" na mean
I don’t classify these songs as country. I honestly think the songs aren’t put into the correct genre. Its pop songs with a southern twang and accent.
That what I've been saying 😂😂
Precisely! I refer to it as souped-up Nashville pop. That's all it is, and I'm sick of it.
Southern pop
For sure!!!
Sadly, these songs are making up the country music history of the era.
Argue, if you must, but it's not gonna change anything.
May I suggest staying away from the pop charts, and dig deeper into alternative country music or maybe bluegrass.
And then there is the old legends which you can listen to almost anywhere.
ngl Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean got me hooked in 2014, but god damn you're so right, snaptrack bro country is soooo played out now
He is so correct! Now I can not stop hearing it. Ugh
I've been producing music in Nashville for 25 years. I own The Rukkus Room studios. I am completely invested in Nashville. I'm here because the musicians are the best in the world. This video says everything I've been frustrated with for the last decade or more.
Thank you for making such a succinct case. I will share this video at every possible opportunity.
Real musicians are not valued anymore.... Shameful
Real musicians are not valued in Southern Gospel either.
Yes but how does it change? Consumers have to show that they want something else, a different sound. Hopefully it happens, but idk, people seem content to listen to the same shit over n over for eternity. Same shit has happened in rock.
I agree, but it started more than a decade ago... I'm 78 years old and was brought up with country music. I have seen the changes over time and they follow the culture, look at the culture in the 40's and look at it now, I am not trying to be judgmental, but point it out as I have seen it. How many of our current song writers have experienced such as some of those who grew up in the depression era.. Have they ever shoveled cow manure, milked a cow, do they even know at one time we milked cows by hand not with machines? Most farming and ranching that I grew up with is a thing of the past, local property taxes made it impossible to make a living off the land any longer... So the land was sold and developed into subdivisions and the NEW country generation was born, never having milked a cow. I have kin in Nashville writing songs and singing backup for popular singers, they follow the money.. Who is giving this music the ratings, the current generation... nothing has changed. I gave up on country years ago.. It's your choice follow the trend or move on..
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I never noticed the snap tracks, all I knew is I couldn't stand country radio suddenly.
I grew up on country in the 80's and 90's, I can't handle the new stuff!
Yeah exactly
My mom forced me and my siblings to listen to country growing up. It wasn’t so bad because it was Dolly, Tammy, Loretta, Johnny Cash, George Jones, and all the rest of the greats. It was even good in my childhood in the mid 90s with Reba and the good 80s/90s singers. She shocked me the other day when she told me she’s going to have to get used to different music because she doesn’t like the new country music. I moved away from country many years ago. I still listen to the oldies, but I hadn’t realized there had been such a decline.
Thank you for identifying what it is I don't like about most current county music specific to mid tempo 4/4 timed music. Trying to do a country two step to this junk is next to impossible. I think there is a shuffle rythm to them also as opposed to just a straight beat like old songs by Hal Ketchum, Randy Travis, etc.
Did you do a video on how all movie trailers all use the "power down" BWOOOOOOOM sound? This video reminds me of that.
This is straight up early 2000s hip hop lmao.
Country from the 2000s was just pop from the 90s with the odd fiddle or banjo thrown in.
Punkyagogo I’m guessing I’m 10 years we are going to get country songs that sound like the 2010’s.
Early 2000s hip hop was WAY better than this.
Clearly you don’t listen to hip hop, it sounded nothing like this poppy crap with country accents. The shitty country songs he showed sound like the pop music of today with country accents.
In 2069 country will sound like trap and hip hop in 2018
Hey country music! Welcome to the 2004 hip hop! 😂
Haha, just what I was thinking!
Mystikal is looking for a agent to get his first Country Album off the ground
@@kingcoheed1208 mystikal need t worry about his hls charges
Laffy Taffy *snap*
@@jasonharris996 I despise that song. 😂
I couldn,t agree more. Many artists have gone to Virtual instruments and though some are tracks recorded and compressed, tweeked... by real musicians with real instruments, it takes away from the organic feel of live music at minimum in my opinion. Thanks for speaking out!
“Body like a backroad??” That sounds like it would mean lumpy and overgrown.
I don't even listen to Country Music. Why am I here?
Still a great video though!
lol same
me to, lol
subscribe to t-series.
Lol good one
Same. I hate country music.
@@luminous6969 Yeah I've never really liked it too much. Nonetheless it sucks to see people's favorite genres becoming more and more washed away
This isnt country. Its one never ending beer commercial.
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There was no use in pretending
No magic left to hear
All the music gave me
Was a craving for lite beer
As I walked out of the arena
My ears began to ring
And money became king
-RIP Tom
This most be your best video over all, do you think it has gettin better?
Mayby a new video on the same issue!?
Thank you for good work!
This first step is to listen to the sweet tenor sound of Randy Travis.
The second step is to make your friends listen to him.
You’re welcome
I cant un-hear this! I'm hearing snaps in everything now
Me too. I'm going to kill myself to stop the snaps
@@justice7788 somehow, this cracked me up completely
This has been a complaint of mine for a few years
I'm taking solace in the faith that Tyler Childers and Colter Wall are gonna blow UP😍
Listening to Music is for stupid people. Playing and writing music is another story. Follow the money. Understand the root of the problem. Education...
Some of these songs just sound like early 2000s R&B with different accents.
Not really it just sounds like the pop music today with country accents. The early 2000’s pop was stuff like Britney Spears.
The only good country is old country. We still have Shooter, Chris Stapleton, and Jamey Johnson at least. Those guys will never sell out. The rest of these hick-hop no talents can go fuck themselves.
@@ChrisM-bn5vrthey said rnb, NOT pop
Now that you pointed it out, I really can't unhear that snap. It's everywhere.
I liked the snap between each segment. Perfect👌
I'm really getting tired of the claps and the snaps in every damn song. It's true all what you said.
thats why i mainly listen to the old stuff
New county be like " I got a gurll and a truuuck"
@Ami Thomas don’t forget the dirt road.
great joke 👏 very clever
@Cool dude of course. Good country music anyway.
@@banditothedorito7082 *rural noun, simple adjective*
@@Cnut_the_grape The Bo Burnham classic.
Ok Grady I'll give your channel a shot this video was very informative and interesting plus on point pretty much it's almost like catching the Applebee's commercial the date night one
Great video!! I love the “bro tailgate party” comment.