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Post by Richard W on Jan 9, 2015 10:47:37 GMT -5
I've been saying it, and others here have been saying it, but this guy finally proved it. Erik, you will especially love/hate this:
"YouTuber Sir Mashalot has created a mix of popular country tunes that reveals just how formulaic the genre has become.
The mashup includes six songs, including ones by big acts like Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan, all of which performed strongly on the charts. There are indeed references aplenty to cars and beer and summertime, but what’s more striking is the nearly identical instrumentation and chord progressions. At one point, all six songs are overlaid on top of each other, and it’s a bit alarming how perfectly they fit together."
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Post by erik on Jan 9, 2015 10:59:29 GMT -5
Yes; and if you listen to this long enough, you'll also see that these songs are basically becoming self-parodies, since they all sound the same. Come to think of it, so do all of them "Boys 'Round Here"--generic, wanna-be hunks with a talent for barely concealed misogyny.
But what is most depressing is that the country music audience out there is either brainwashed or brain-dead enough to want to buy this s**t!
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Post by Richard W on Jan 9, 2015 11:17:30 GMT -5
When all 6 songs play at once, it almost takes your breath away—it's difficult to breathe and vomit at the same time.
You'd have reason to believe that all 6 songs were written by the same person, but they're not.
My partner's brother just eats this stuff up, much to my disgust. I love the guy, but when "Blue Bayou" came on the iPod on the boat during the family summer vacation, he cringed, like, "what is this crap?" He immediately followed that classic up with "Pontoon" by Little Big Town.
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Post by Dianna on Jan 9, 2015 12:40:48 GMT -5
wow.. what's funny I bet the same came be said for rap music.. I always hear the same song.
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Post by moe on Jan 9, 2015 12:56:47 GMT -5
Wow! this is amazing(ly) bad. First a lot of songs have a similar chord progression (traditional blues etc.) ,but manage to be melodicly and thematically unique. Seems that whomever wrote the first one has a copyright case on the other five-like anyone would claim this drivel. Second, I claimed not to like (read understand) hip-hop. After hearing this I think I need to be more open minded, although I don't really want to abandon melody just yet. Where are the supporters of true country music? George Jones is dead but (correct me if I'm wrong) Haggard, Willie, Loretta and many others are alive. These folks as well as great writers like Rodney Crowell should move to condemn this s&#$ as a affront to their great legacy.
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Post by Richard W on Jan 9, 2015 13:17:48 GMT -5
The guitar solos made me laugh.
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Post by erik on Jan 9, 2015 18:32:47 GMT -5
Quote by Richard W:
They'd make me laugh too, if they weren't so f***ing loud and samey. This is really just bad Southern arena rock from the 80s updated. That's what we used to call country has degenerated to (IMHO).
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Post by Dianna on Jan 9, 2015 20:03:10 GMT -5
I had to go back and listen as I don't know any of the songs. I couldn't differentiate the first from the second or when each song cut off and was the rhyming intentional?
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Post by erik on Jan 9, 2015 21:03:03 GMT -5
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I think it would be tough to differentiate, since these d***ed lyrics all sound the same after a while. There's absolutely no originality whatsoever in them (IMHO).
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Post by Goldie on Jan 9, 2015 21:34:26 GMT -5
I actually enjoyed that. Since I don't listen to music much I had never heard any of those songs but I like the beat and it is easy to dance to. I bet you could find this in any musical genre though. I often got confused when the intro of Blue Bayou and Billy Joel's An Innocent Man.
I bet you could mash up those two songs pretty easily. I have noticed how so many songs fit together over the years and wondered why this hasn't been done more.
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 9, 2015 22:25:52 GMT -5
Wow! this is amazing(ly) bad. First a lot of songs have a similar chord progression (traditional blues etc.) ,but manage to be melodicly and thematically unique. Seems that whomever wrote the first one has a copyright case on the other five-like anyone would claim this drivel. Second, I claimed not to like (read understand) hip-hop. After hearing this I think I need to be more open minded, although I don't really want to abandon melody just yet. Where are the supporters of true country music? George Jones is dead but (correct me if I'm wrong) Haggard, Willie, Loretta and many others are alive. These folks as well as great writers like Rodney Crowell should move to condemn this s&#$ as a affront to their great legacy. Amazingly bad is an understatement and I don't think a word yet exists that describes how truly awful this stuff is. In 60s vernacular, it might be considered "plastic soul" but there's no "soul" in this drek. There's a lot of plastic. I don't know if the person who wrote the first song would have a case for plagiarism. Chord sequences can't be copyrighted but it would be the melodies the songs where the cases could be made. But, what if the same person wrote all the songs? True, many old timers are still alive who could condemn it but my guess would be they'd get nothing but lip service from the country establishment, from record company executives to radio executives to the current crop of country performers. But, another point to consider would be how many old time country performers would counter they've had their moments of fame but their time has passed and the time now belongs to others, for good or bad? |
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Post by Dianna on Jan 9, 2015 22:36:40 GMT -5
I've heard when we get to the other side.. the after life..some have described the experience as a buffet for the senses..Music all simultaneous with no chaos.. i sure hope that mash up isn't what they're referring to. ha ha
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Post by Richard W on Jan 12, 2015 10:02:39 GMT -5
I had to go back and listen as I don't know any of the songs. I couldn't differentiate the first from the second or when each song cut off and was the rhyming intentional? I think that's the point of the mashup, Dianna. They have the lyrics floating by color-coded according to the song, but they all sound so much alike that differentiating them is a joke. To say nothing of the sameness of the vocals. Florida Georgia Line has to be the worst. If there's a level below them, I don't want to hear/see it. |
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Post by erik on Jan 12, 2015 10:41:24 GMT -5
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On that, I can't help but agree. But when you come down to it, neither one of "them boys" (sic) are better than the other. They're just all equally worthless (IMHO).
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