COUNTRY IS KILLING EVERYWHERE!
Smoking the charts up, driving music sales! While many artists in other genres are struggling with making money and selling albums.... Country music has GROWN and is achieving record sales numbers. With artists like Taylor Swift, young girls are discovering Country Music, sometimes for the first time, whether their parents are Country Music fans or not!
I suspect that a few things have helped make COUNTRY KING!
1) The continuing modernization of Country, has created MANY styles and offshoots of the genre, that are appealing to modern ears as well as those faithful to it's roots.... Some Country sounds like Southern Rock, Taylor Swifts songs sound like pop, but with a country twist and a southern accent... They have artists that work the stage like ROCK STARS in Country Music more than ever before... They have "out-there" Country Stars that could almost be a country version of Lady GaGa or Rick James.... with outlandish sparkly showy costumes and elaborate stage productions. So CHOICES and DIVERSITY I think are part of it... something for everyone!
2) The saturation of Rap and a few other genres over the last few decades, to me at least, has become mundane and BORING and begins to sound the same, as identical hooks get repeated, same effects, nothing that new and exciting. Has the saturation of "sameness" also contributed, to people looking for something more "earthy" and "real" again? A genre that actually TELLS STORIES about NORMAL PEOPLE'S lives, and not gangsta ballin' songs?
What are your thoughts?
1) WHAT HAS MADE COUNTRY KING? (I now hear more country stations than rock in many places)
2) WHY HAVE OTHERS RESISTED IT? (mock it - don't give it a chance)
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