Country music, is it OK?
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Re: Country music, is it OK?
Can rap music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
Can pop music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
I like the song 'Over and Over' by Tim McGraw and Nelly.
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Yes, no and sometimes. Who is Tim McGraw and Nelly?Scott wrote:Can rock music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
Can rap music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
Can pop music ever be justified and, if so, under what circumstances?
I like the song 'Over and Over' by Tim McGraw and Nelly.
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That having been said, everything country since about 1948 is awful.
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You are obviously highly educated but, out of consideration for those of us who are not, could you stick to English please.Kepler1571 wrote:De gustibus non est disputandum.
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It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else.
Archibald Macleish.
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"Three chords, and the truth."
Country music is more than OK. It is the artistic pinnacle of our civilization. When Loretta Lynn sang:
"I was born a coal miner's daughter In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler"
It was because she really was born the daughter of a man with that particular profession in that particular location. When Leonard Cohen sang (in the song called "Tower of Song"):
"I asked Hank Williams, how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet, But I hear him coughing all night long, A hundred floors above me in the tower of song."
he wasn't actually in a tower occupied also by Hank Williams. He was singing metaphorically. Leonard Cohen was no country singer, but he recognized the elevated position of Hank Williams in the edifice of music.
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You can be an excellent musician and still play rubbish. I don't know anything about John Prine but I do know that the lyrics of most country music is over sentimental and false.Rederic wrote:Listen to some John Prine. Good musician, good song writer, & his words are sheer poetry.
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Dolly Parton looks so ridiculously, obviously false that she couldn't possibly be anything but genuine.
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Well, I suppose so, if you look at it that way.Steve3007 wrote:Country music lyrics can seem false because of the extraordinary lives of the people who wrote them. To a middle-class, cynical, English, atheist, arty-farty, namby-pamby liberal type like me whose never really done a proper day's hard graft in his life they seem like they couldn't be anything other than the most gooey, sentimental, schmaltzy pap. That's what proves that they're real.
Dolly Parton looks so ridiculously, obviously false that she couldn't possibly be anything but genuine.
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