Is it me atau why country Muzik only appeal US and Canada and regular Muzik and not popular music? Why country Muzik worldwide release only appeal pop Muzik release sejak country artists like Florida Georgia Line pop Muzik and crossover like Lady Antebellum’s Need anda Now? That’s all people listening to country Muzik worldwide does these days. Pop Muzik released sejak country stars like Leann Rymes pop Muzik and crossover like The Band Perry’s If I Die Young.
Not only that, popular Muzik does not appeal country Muzik like Miranda Lambert and anda have to use other popular Muzik like pop Muzik to use people listening to popular music.
Worse, popular Muzik like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country Muzik like Brad paisley, dubai these days.
It appears that country Muzik did not survive the popular Muzik curse and anda have to use regular Muzik like video game Muzik to hear country Muzik like Tim McGraw.
Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country Muzik comes from being from its origin. anda have to use mainstream Muzik like Taylor pantas, swift to listen to popular music.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor pantas, swift only appeal pop. Her Muzik does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. anda have to use computer and albums to hear country Muzik sejak her like Ours. Not only that, country Muzik don’t care about Taylor pantas, swift like Red and anda have to use Taylor Swift-less country Muzik to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor pantas, swift use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor pantas, swift only appeal pop like Cinta Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country Muzik are not mainstream country. Her country Muzik are pop music. anda have to use pop Muzik to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor pantas, swift are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor pantas, swift only appeal pop and not going sejak different genres like country.
Worse, country Muzik is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor pantas, swift (and only since the Red era) and before her anda have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If anda showed 100 Rawak Brits a pic of George Strait, anda probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.
There are some UK Country Muzik singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.
The only real markets for Country Muzik are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).
The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor pantas, swift because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country Muzik in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country Muzik in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to Muzik on the internet don’t care about country Muzik and they only listen to mainstream Muzik like rock and regular Muzik like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country Muzik is suppose to be popular Muzik because country are popular music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Eropah and popular Muzik quickly prefer mainstream Muzik as their popular Muzik course like R&B and rap.
It's true that country Muzik is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 bahagian, atas 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song atau it's Taylor Swift.
I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.
Major US Country acts can come and do a konsert in London but those attending will be peminat-peminat because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!
The internet makes it easier for international peminat-peminat to follow US Country Muzik Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie atau Miranda atau Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country Muzik radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.
A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is popular here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.
I would like Country Muzik to be lebih successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. Singing about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country Muzik into the mainstream and anda have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country Muzik and popular Muzik only appeals country music-less popular Muzik like hip-hop.
So I think it has to do with country Muzik being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country Muzik artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a lebih local industry, so its artists are generally lebih local.
And I can't at people on a pop Muzik forum (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country Muzik trash when country Muzik peminat-peminat think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop Muzik like Justin Timberlake over country Muzik like Kelsey Ballerini.
That’s why country Muzik only appeals country tastes like CMT and not popular Muzik tastes like Vevo because country Muzik is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop peminat-peminat only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country Muzik is boring.
Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to Muzik with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is lebih interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to Muzik only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to popular Muzik don’t seem to care about country Muzik like Hunter Hayes atau good pop Muzik like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.
But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get lebih criticism. But hip hop is lebih global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.
Casual listener perceives country Muzik as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country Muzik are not mainstream music. Mainstream Muzik is country music-less popular Muzik like rock and R&B.
I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years lalu during a speak activity about Muzik in my English class, I berkata that country is very popular in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time lalu and I really Cinta Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves atau Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because Muzik at least sejak those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.
As I berkata I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where anda ride on your horse atau something.
The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their selamat, peti deposit keselamatan zone (the US).
AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Jepun and bintang Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Eropah and America repeats like America Filem are lebih popular than America like country Muzik because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?
Well there is a person from Central Eropah and honestly, people in Eropah had never heard of Garth before one person became lebih interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.
Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor pantas, swift but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.
But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are lebih common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable atau appreciate. Need anda Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma atau wherever.
Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't menyeberang, cross over to other countries just like their regional Muzik doesn't menyeberang, cross over WW because other countries like Jepun don't relate to Singing about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country Muzik is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.
I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor pantas, swift is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And anda Belong With Me is a smash.
What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced sejak mixing the country sound to pop songs.
So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.
But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock atau rock sometimes. For example, Need anda Now.
Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country Muzik at all despite country Muzik video exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I Cinta country Muzik until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country Muzik can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when anda cut through the stupid artists of country, anda realize how great it is.
Let’s face it, popular Muzik hates country music. Plain and simple. Country Muzik doesn’t use popular Muzik like electric gitar which country Muzik does and only use regular Muzik like twang despite country Muzik are not regular music. So why US hates country Muzik and US only wants other popular Muzik like pop Muzik and Beyonce? Why US does not play country Muzik and the only way is country stations like CMT?
What are your thoughts on country Muzik struggle in the popular Muzik industry?
Not only that, popular Muzik does not appeal country Muzik like Miranda Lambert and anda have to use other popular Muzik like pop Muzik to use people listening to popular music.
Worse, popular Muzik like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country Muzik like Brad paisley, dubai these days.
It appears that country Muzik did not survive the popular Muzik curse and anda have to use regular Muzik like video game Muzik to hear country Muzik like Tim McGraw.
Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country Muzik comes from being from its origin. anda have to use mainstream Muzik like Taylor pantas, swift to listen to popular music.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor pantas, swift only appeal pop. Her Muzik does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. anda have to use computer and albums to hear country Muzik sejak her like Ours. Not only that, country Muzik don’t care about Taylor pantas, swift like Red and anda have to use Taylor Swift-less country Muzik to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor pantas, swift use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor pantas, swift only appeal pop like Cinta Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country Muzik are not mainstream country. Her country Muzik are pop music. anda have to use pop Muzik to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor pantas, swift are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor pantas, swift only appeal pop and not going sejak different genres like country.
Worse, country Muzik is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor pantas, swift (and only since the Red era) and before her anda have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If anda showed 100 Rawak Brits a pic of George Strait, anda probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.
There are some UK Country Muzik singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.
The only real markets for Country Muzik are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).
The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor pantas, swift because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country Muzik in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country Muzik in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to Muzik on the internet don’t care about country Muzik and they only listen to mainstream Muzik like rock and regular Muzik like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country Muzik is suppose to be popular Muzik because country are popular music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Eropah and popular Muzik quickly prefer mainstream Muzik as their popular Muzik course like R&B and rap.
It's true that country Muzik is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 bahagian, atas 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song atau it's Taylor Swift.
I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.
Major US Country acts can come and do a konsert in London but those attending will be peminat-peminat because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!
The internet makes it easier for international peminat-peminat to follow US Country Muzik Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie atau Miranda atau Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country Muzik radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.
A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is popular here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.
I would like Country Muzik to be lebih successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. Singing about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country Muzik into the mainstream and anda have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country Muzik and popular Muzik only appeals country music-less popular Muzik like hip-hop.
So I think it has to do with country Muzik being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country Muzik artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a lebih local industry, so its artists are generally lebih local.
And I can't at people on a pop Muzik forum (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country Muzik trash when country Muzik peminat-peminat think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop Muzik like Justin Timberlake over country Muzik like Kelsey Ballerini.
That’s why country Muzik only appeals country tastes like CMT and not popular Muzik tastes like Vevo because country Muzik is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop peminat-peminat only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country Muzik is boring.
Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to Muzik with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is lebih interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to Muzik only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to popular Muzik don’t seem to care about country Muzik like Hunter Hayes atau good pop Muzik like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.
But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get lebih criticism. But hip hop is lebih global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.
Casual listener perceives country Muzik as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country Muzik are not mainstream music. Mainstream Muzik is country music-less popular Muzik like rock and R&B.
I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years lalu during a speak activity about Muzik in my English class, I berkata that country is very popular in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time lalu and I really Cinta Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves atau Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because Muzik at least sejak those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.
As I berkata I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where anda ride on your horse atau something.
The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their selamat, peti deposit keselamatan zone (the US).
AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Jepun and bintang Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Eropah and America repeats like America Filem are lebih popular than America like country Muzik because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?
Well there is a person from Central Eropah and honestly, people in Eropah had never heard of Garth before one person became lebih interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.
Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor pantas, swift but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.
But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are lebih common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable atau appreciate. Need anda Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma atau wherever.
Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't menyeberang, cross over to other countries just like their regional Muzik doesn't menyeberang, cross over WW because other countries like Jepun don't relate to Singing about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country Muzik is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.
I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor pantas, swift is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And anda Belong With Me is a smash.
What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced sejak mixing the country sound to pop songs.
So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.
But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock atau rock sometimes. For example, Need anda Now.
Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country Muzik at all despite country Muzik video exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I Cinta country Muzik until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country Muzik can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when anda cut through the stupid artists of country, anda realize how great it is.
Let’s face it, popular Muzik hates country music. Plain and simple. Country Muzik doesn’t use popular Muzik like electric gitar which country Muzik does and only use regular Muzik like twang despite country Muzik are not regular music. So why US hates country Muzik and US only wants other popular Muzik like pop Muzik and Beyonce? Why US does not play country Muzik and the only way is country stations like CMT?
What are your thoughts on country Muzik struggle in the popular Muzik industry?
