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iTunes: Download music and so much more
Itunes is one of the largest online music retailers. Last year, millions of people went online to download music from the store and organized their mp3 files with the iTunes Jukebox. Right now, the jukebox is free so anyone can use it to rip CDs,...
Morpheus is one of the most comprehensive file sharing applications on the web
It works pretty much the same way like Kazaa, Napster and some other more famous counterparts. The one big difference for Morpheus, It searches other file sharing networks. It’s truly a genius design. Now that the recording industry is striking...
MP3 Music Downloads--Your Guide to Creating Personal Packages
MP3 music downloads have taken the music world by storm. In 2004, legal music downloads, worldwide, increased tenfold to more than 200 million. With the ease of downloading your favorite tunes directly onto your computer and then burning your own...
Music 101: The Key To Pronunciation And Accent Reduction
"Without music life would be a mistake"
These are the words of the famous German Philosopher Frederik Nietzsche, and as a specialist in pronunciation and Accent Reduction for non-native English speakers, I can attest to this regarding the English...
Nashville Radio Personality to Speak at Indie Music Week
Nashville Radio Personality to Speak at Indie Music Week
Nashville, Tennessee - Indie Music Week has announced that Kelly Ann Monahan, news correspondent for Nashville’s HOT AC station, Star 97, will be participating as an Indie Music Week...
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Modern Country Music Lyrics still retain the art of storytelling
Country music lyrics are blasting on urban music stations as younger American trying to escape the emergence of bad pop and even awful pop music turn to this stable genre. Country music is currently gaining on rock as the second most popular music format on American radio stations. It is right behind hip hop in terms of people’s ability to identify a feel, a demographic, and a sense of rebellion when they hear the lyrics on many songs.
If you look back into early to mid 90’s it seemed that country music was on the decline. In fact, if you look at some of the popular hits from Shania Twain and even “I will always love you” by Whitney Houston, country music lyrics could only be heard by crossover pop artists. I’m sure that many in the industry thought this would be the end of great commercial successes for modern country artists.
Fortunately, the Nashville establishment held on to their traditions and developed a new set of country artists that would appeal to young urban listeners.
So why didn’t they stray and turn country music into a subgenre of crappy pop?
The answer lies in the lessons of the 1980’s. Country music went through a moment as the “it music” during the
early to mid 1980’s with detrimental results. There were more stars, doing more tours and making more money than ever before, but the most popular country music lyrics at the time did not reflect the geographic sensibilities of the south.
They became caricatures selling urbanites on the exotic possibilities of redneck culture and vain beauty queens.
The Nashville gatekeepers learned a very painful lesson.
Pop culture mangles, destroys, and makes fun of anything that comes in its path. They learned that:
1. You can still get country music lyrics played on urban radios, but you will need your own radio networks
2. You can compete with pop by developing younger artists like Sarah Evans and Faith Hill who can present a pop image with solid country music lyrics on their albums.
So where does this lead modern country?
Still on the forefront, experimenting with country-rock, and Rhythm and blues collaborations.
It certainly is a good time for country music and an even better time for country music fans.
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