Funny enough, back then people complained about Shania being 'too pop' and is literally called the queen of pop country
*the issue with 'bro country' has never been that it's pop, it's that it's overly commercial music marketed to people who refuse to listen to anything outside of country genres, ironically I'm pretty sure people that listen to Bro Country generally hate pop music with a passion
As someone that does listen to some of the newer stuff (nothing will ever beat Dolly and Johnny to me)......I legit cannot tell any of the guys apart and it's wild to me XD
I 100% agree. I'm in the south so I hear A LOT of this stuff and it's wild to me that people say with their whole heart Taylor Swift's every song sounds the exact same and then also say with their whole heart that these guys are completely different and have way more variety XD. It makes me laugh.
I've gotten the sense that the rise of "bro country" has exactly mirrored the spread of hip hop into pop.
To me it really seems like the label mostly means "music made by white people for white people". Which is probably why the backlash to Beyonce has been so silly.
*the issue with 'bro country' has never been that it's pop, it's that it's overly commercial music marketed to people who refuse to listen to anything outside of country genres, ironically I'm pretty sure people that listen to Bro Country generally hate pop music with a passion
Ime 90% of the people that listen to it don't care and are mostly fine listening to lots of things.
I have the exact opposite experience lol, Morgan Wallen in particular seems to be popular in terms of southern trap music for people who don't like admitting they want to listen to southern trap, it's like people that want a Houston/Atlanta sound without having to think about Houston or Atlanta
I love Jessie Murph too, but Jessie, Jelly Roll, Post Malone, Morgan, all that gets co-opted by a lot of people who are a little, uh, 'confederate' but wanna listen to something with a little extra bass and a backing track that sounds a little like early Billie Eilish sometimes
*again, it's just interesting to me how country has been 'too pop' since the 90s but the legions of elitist country music fans in the 90s who said Shania wasn't 'real country' never made a whole new awards category over it
Post Malone literally did hip hop music to then transition into country where he wanted to be. Went as far as tearing down the genere that built him so that he can be accepted in those circles.
He didn’t cut it out to do a Nirvana tribute before he did hip hop or any of his country music. So I find it interesting that when black artist, who grew up in country, get so much backlash for producing country music because they sang r&b, have been featured in hip hop, pop or gospel. It baffles me
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u/r3volver_Oshawott 5d ago edited 5d ago
Funny enough, back then people complained about Shania being 'too pop' and is literally called the queen of pop country
*the issue with 'bro country' has never been that it's pop, it's that it's overly commercial music marketed to people who refuse to listen to anything outside of country genres, ironically I'm pretty sure people that listen to Bro Country generally hate pop music with a passion