Why are all the new country artist fake?

Question

Back in the day, up until the 2000's, maybe even the 1990s the Country music genre was actually well, country..

Look up some old country singers like George strait, brooks & Dunn,Alabama, Alan Jackson, George Jones, hank Sr/Jr, etc.

These people were actually country, they were born in small towns and sang about what living in the country is like..

Now you have these new country singers like Taylor swift, Lady antebellum, Rascal flatts, Carrie Underwood Who are from huge cities and all they sing about is Breakups, Divorce, and they aren't even country is what gets me, why label your music as country when its really pop and you yourself aren't even country?

Ok my rant is over, I know i will get some little 12 year olds saying "JUS CUZ U LIV IN CITEE DOESNT MEEN UR NOT COUNTRY" Well, yes it does mean you're not country..

Answer 1

There are two reasons.



One, the people who are running the country music industry in Nashville, by their own admission, HATE COUNTRY MUSIC. They have been on a mission to destroy country music as it has been identified for nine decades. They re-define country music in terms THEY are comfortable with; hence, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Eagles (who had country-sounding songs, they are NOT a country band, and Glenn Frey made that perfectly clear in 1973), and Kid Rock are now labeled "country," while legitimately country songs are called "too country" and blocked from commercial airplay.



Two, loosely tied to the first, is money. Money drives the music industry. If you think the industry is about music you are incorrect. Modern commercial music is contrived, plastic, cookie-cutter, factory-produced garbage. Why? Because music, like your deodorant or detergent, is meticulously test-marketed and researched. And, sad to say, the "test audiences" are NOT music lovers (and not even COUNTRY music lovers). (I would never qualify as a "test marketer" because I bought more CDs last week than the "average" (read: ideal subject) person bought in the past two years.) They are people who listen to the radio for background noise on the way to work, on the way home, and maybe while at work. They buy less than five albums a year and attend two or fewer concerts a year. Those are the people radio is geared for, and, their research claims, these people want sameness in their background noise...er...music, so that's exactly why all the music sounds as though it was recorded the same day by the same person.



That is also why things such as internet radio, satellite radio, and independent labels are thriving: they allow country singers to be COUNTRY. It's out there, alive and well. You just have to search for it.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

......Today's country music is just a business.There is no heart or soul in the music. The people that sing these songs today are just entertainers and most can not sing.

The songs that are being played are nothing but "pop-and soft rock". Sure there is the debate about "new" or "modern" or " today's" country but it is the same beat and rhythm that "Loggins and Messina,James Taylor, Jim Croce, et al...." were doing in the 70's.

As I said another time. Some Recording Exec in Nashville or a producer out to make a profit is passing on "Glamor Shot" artist who can not sing and have no idea what the heart and soul of country is as a country singer. Well just because you stick a cowboy hat and boots on someone does not make them a country singer.

Answer 5

As far as today's Country Music is concerned, the best legit artist must be George Strait. Champion 'Fake' must be Taylor Swift. What we shall never know, is would Hank Williams have gone the same route as Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Glen Campbell, Sammi Smith, Lynn Anderson and other 'Nashville Sound' crossover artists?

Answer 6

"JUS CUZ U LIV IN CITEE DOESNT MEEN UR NOT COUNTRY"

And I copied a d pasted that and I'm not twelve. Learn how to spell or at least learn how most twelve year olds actually spell. This and your little rant just proves how narrow minded you are. And Taylor swift isn't even from a big city. She's from wyomissing Pennsylvania, a town you wool call small. As in this is a small town. And she moved to Nashville which by no means is a small town but is the center of country music. Music changes. Get a life.

Answer 7

One of the most important aspects of singing well involves correct breathing. Now you would think that we would already do this correctly. Try a site like https://tr.im/OFUUc which has the best vocal exercises



After all if we couldn't breathe we wouldn't be alive! But in reality many people have bad breathing habits caused by a variety of things including poor posture and our often frantic lifestyles. Learning how to control your breathing is one of the keys to improving your voice.



Singing requires that you are able to take in enough air quickly before you are about to sing a line and then let this air out in a regular and controlled way whilst singing the notes. The mistake many novice singers do is to take a quick shallow gasp of air into the top of the lungs. This results in there being insufficient air, to get you through the line you are singing, and you will end up dropping notes. I'm sure you can relate to this experience and can remember times when you have had to quickly take in more air half way through the line or note you are singing.

Answer 8

Just a correction, most of them aren't from big cities.



Taylor Swift is from Reading, Pennsylvania

Carrie Underwood is from Muskogee, Oklahoma

Rascal Flatts are from Columbus, Ohio.



Btw, what you call country music has been gone for a while. It was great, but country just isn't the same anymore and it most likely never will be in the near future.

Answer 9

These days the money and Corporate Greed are Overwhelming the

original music form.Churn out same sounding,boring product.Not

really too different than Main St s.across our great land having lost

local identity to Corporate Faced Box stores,all looking the same.

Answer 10

Well lets put it this way I've never ever liked country music, but ever since taylor swift came in the scene I still don't like country music but it has pique my curiosity a tad little, so.. What this means is the industry is trying to redefine country music and get more people to like it.

Answer 11

The answer to ur questin is, It didnt matter if the music sounded good as long as it was bringing in more money,..and the lust for world wide fame slowly killed tradition.,.and for that someone should hang. .These are some of the lyrics to the song,..Murder On Music Row,.by George Strait and Allen Jackson,..and This is the answer to ur question..

Answer 12

You dont have to be born in the country to sing country music. Country is just a genre not where you live. Country music is country music mostly because of how it sonds not where its from.

Answer 13

Producers and recording companies...desparate for money.

So they bring "anybody" into the "Country Genre". It is about

Money....not Tradition.... ( unfortunately)...

Answer 14

thankyou for all the answers!

Answer 15

They are country,just a different type of country :)

Answer 16

kill Nashville pop! thanks and remember to check your cinch.