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by: donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator  OP 
~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 10:08am  
...crazy for a cutie pie country singer. Hoda Kotb is insanely in love with Blake Shelton and just oozes and ogles about him on the Hoda and Kathy Lee portion of the TODAY Show. I don't feel nearly as creepy about it now. Not stopping, but I just feel less like a creeper stalker. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 10:23am  
...crazy for a cutie pie country singer. Hoda Kotb is insanely in love with Blake Shelton and just oozes and ogles about him on the Hoda and Kathy Lee portion of the TODAY Show. I don't feel nearly as creepy about it now. Not stopping, but I just feel less like a creeper stalker.
 
@donnatella: "country singer" and "Blake Shelton" should never be used in the same discussion.  At least not without prefacing "country" with "Bro, pop, or ****ty".  George Strait, Willie Nelson, Roger Creagor, Mark McKinney, Josh Abott, Jerry Jeff Walker....those are country singers. ;-)
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 11:06am  
Removed By Request 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 11:37am  
I drool over Tim McGraw....  yummy 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 11:52am  
I love Blake Shelton too!  I also love Luke Bryan!  He knows how to move! 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator  OP 
~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 11:54am  
Country music makes my ears bleed.Thankfully Randall's stopped playing country music.  The last time I heard some song, If I were a pie, I'd be a cherry pie, I nearly embarrassed myself in public lmaoEmoticonBut if I had to listen to country music it would straight up be George Straight.
 
@Fallon:
I used to listen...fan of 90s country. Never stopped lovin' this guy.
 
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 12:03pm  
I agree with Fallon, as usual.  Except my go-to, hold a gun to my head, I'd listen to Dwight Yoakum.  I love the way he has gone creepy bald, and love him in "Under the Dome". 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 1:35pm  
This is exactly what's wrong with Nashville country today.  The comments on here are about how Tim McGraw is hot.  Blake Shelton is hot.  Luke Bryan is hot.  When actual talent by a musician is superseded by how good he or she looks in jeans it becomes pop.  Keith Urban is a good guitarist, Brad Paisley is phenomenal guitarist, Hunter Hayes plays 30ish instruments, and the Dixie Chicks are all 3 brilliant musicians.  That's about it.  Everything else you hear coming out of Nashville is studio musicians laying down sound tracks for "hot" guys and girls to sing auto-tuned tracks over.  Might as well be using a drum machine.
If I were a pie, I'd be a cherry pie
 @Fallon: "If Heaven" by Andy Griggs.  My wife's grandmother likes it so I play it on the piano for her.  I don't love or hate it.  It's not as good as a lot of the older country or the music on the current Texas country scene but it's 1000x better than the pop country that's being pumped out of Nashville today.  Wade Bowen's "Songs About Trucks" puts all that hot-trophy-girl-get-in-my-big-truck bull in perspective.Dang it...forgot the syntax on embedding vids.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAS-h0aFx0  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 1:46pm  
@shodan66 OK. But I just really want to give zac brown a hug. I dont think he is hot at all but I like his music and I want to cuddle with him. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 1:48pm  
@shodan66You just named my two other favorite country singers Keith Urban and Brad Paisley.   4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 1:55pm  
@shodan66 OK. But I just really want to give zac brown a hug. I dont think he is hot at all but I like his music and I want to cuddle with him.
 
@BooBear: Zac Brown gets a pass.  He's come out publicly saying basically the same things I've just said.  Nashville country is crap written by basically the same 5 writers.  I think Jamie Johnson is still based out of Nashville as well but he's also a huge proponent of playing real country music.
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 1:56pm  
oh geeez...it's all a matter of taste ..or lack of it. but face it, a lot of music and that includes 'country' music is a marketable commodity written by paid staff writers and churned thru their machine to hit a certain demographic in the wallet and vacuum those bills out. country music as a genre is no different than 'rock' music from the  50s and 60s, 'folk' music from the 60s, 'psychedelic' music from the 70s, disco from the 70s....it's a business with some artistic overtones but still a production and consumption model of generating income 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 1:58pm  
@shodan66You just named my two other favorite country singers Keith Urban and Brad Paisley.  
 
@calliecat: I didn't say they were singers.  ;-)  I saw Paisley at the rodeo and his vocals aren't all that great.  We have guys play at the local open mics (not me) every week that are better vocally and have a more pronounced vocal timbre than either of these guys.  Amazing guitarists, marginal vocalists...but both pretty enough for Nashville.
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 2:07pm  
oh geeez...it's all a matter of taste ..or lack of it. but face it, a lot of music and that includes 'country' music is a marketable commodity written by paid staff writers and churned thru their machine to hit a certain demographic in the wallet and vacuum those bills out. country music as a genre is no different than 'rock' music from the  50s and 60s, 'folk' music from the 60s, 'psychedelic' music from the 70s, disco from the 70s....it's a business with some artistic overtones but still a production and consumption model of generating income
 
@ProblemAgain: I would totally agree with you.  The exception that I...and those in my camp...take is that Nashville has held fast to the "country" tag while attempting to kill the original genre.  I completely understand that their brand is selling.  "Country" music has recently eclipsed Classic Rock as the most popular genre in the US.  Old guys in smokey bars are not prone to buy the latest hit on iTunes.  My daughter will, so they target her.  It's good for business.  If they would have relabeled country as "roots pop" or something catchy when it shifted their target market group then you'd hear no complaints out of me.  Recently I have heard some of the stations call themselves "new country".  I guess I'll have to live with that.
Now get off my lawn!!! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 2:17pm  
guess no one remembers that the record companies became less about music and more about 'product'' when it became big business as corporations bought the recording companies up. butit has been going on for years and years. the brill building was a hive of hired music writers in the 30s and thru the 70s...writers from irving berlin, neil sedaka, carol king, goffin et al wrote the big hits there on salary . nashville has the same thing with staff writers churning out formulaic songs....intro....chorus and catchy repeated hooks. but the record companies pay those writers rather well in comparison to them trying to write and perform for a living. years and years ago they were paying 50 k a year for a staff writer plus bonuses and per centages for big hits 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Aug 8, '14 2:19pm  
guess no one remembers that the record companies became less about music and more about 'product'' when it became big business as corporations bought the recording companies up. butit has been going on for years and years. the brill building was a hive of hired music writers in the 30s and thru the 70s...writers from irving berlin, neil sedaka, carol king, goffin et al wrote the big hits there on salary . nashville has the same thing with staff writers churning out formulaic songs....intro....chorus and catchy repeated hooks. but the record companies pay those writers rather well in comparison to them trying to write and perform for a living. years and years ago they were paying 50 k a year for a staff writer plus bonuses and per centages for big hits
 
@ProblemAgain:
Nope. I dont remember that. I'm too young. Emoticon
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