Watch the vid and enjoy the laugh, fellas!

That just pisses me the fuck off.

sheeut..it's even more whacked out than I thought.

I just can't figure out who the hell actually likes this stuff? All the cliches - both musically and lyrically...it's just depressing.

Undoubtedly market-researched, cross referenced by demographic, and reduced to the lowest common denominator to achieve maximum appeal.

Oh, and...ART!

He who buys no music because they are broke from buying beer to listen to this shit.

Mixolydian....

This music makes me feel funny inside

Since country is pretty much the only thing that makes money anymore, they are grasping at the last straws available. I remember mashups like this in rock about a decade ago..

The truly sad part is this represents only the most commercial, self perpetuating junk music while there are so many seriously deep and innovative country, alt. country and Americana artists making incredibly good music. They're just not getting pushed by "country radio" and we keep hearing from the same old cast of characters year after year.

I don't know if it will be turn out the same, but in the late 60's commercial AM radio lost it's cool factor and FM began playing deep tracks and new innovative artists, and it was an avalanche of success. Hopefully, the same kind of thing happens here.

Gross.

When I first got into this business, there was an excitement about writing songs...there was the chance that you could "write yourself into a cut" - there was still a sense that the best song would win at the end of the day. Sure, some days, you wrote a mindless uptempo, but most of my days were spent attempting to write something that would rise above. Well, that is absolutely a thing of the past. The level of art has been so devalued that anyone could write these songs...literally anyone. (I call it 10th grade country, because most of it sounds like it was a 10th grade English class project and these were the best of them). There are no cuts available for songwriters (only the ones that already had tons of success, now the labels put those ten people in the room to write with their artist) because anyone could write this stuff - and they usually own the publishing on the majority of the song - and if they don't, it was because one of the other writers in 3-5 way is an established hit songwriter that lends some sort of "credibility." It's all sad and infuriating. The playing field is more un-level than it has ever been. Even with all that being said, this doesn't describe every song on country radio now - I'm sure there are some good ones and some exceptions that have slipped through - there always is - but I dont listen anymore so I couldn't tell you. I'm sure many would label me as a malcontent, washed up, bitter, no-talent, etc. But I'm not (I passed bitter a long time ago). I am so desperately wanting to share a craft I've worked years on - something I know others would enjoy - something that has content that is not overly complicated, but both empathetic and relatable. Something that I learned from listening to the incredible talents that came before me and is deeper than painted on jeans and discovering that, yes, the moon is bright. It is the reason I continue to do this and hang on as my salary dwindles every year. This isn't for money, it's for passion.