Is it me of why country muziek only appeal US and Canada and regular muziek and not populair music? Why country muziek worldwide release only appeal pop muziek release door country artists like Florida Georgia Line pop muziek and crossover like Lady Antebellum’s Need u Now? That’s all people listening to country muziek worldwide does these days. Pop muziek released door country stars like Leann Rymes pop muziek and crossover like The Band Perry’s If I Die Young.
Not only that, populair muziek does not appeal country muziek like Miranda Lambert and u have to use other populair muziek like pop muziek to use people listening to populair music.
Worse, populair muziek like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country muziek like Brad paisley these days.
It appears that country muziek did not survive the populair muziek curse and u have to use regular muziek like video game muziek to hear country muziek like Tim McGraw.
Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country muziek comes from being from its origin. u have to use mainstream muziek like Taylor snel, swift to listen to populair music.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor snel, swift only appeal pop. Her muziek does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. u have to use computer and albums to hear country muziek door her like Ours. Not only that, country muziek don’t care about Taylor snel, swift like Red and u have to use Taylor Swift-less country muziek to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor snel, swift use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor snel, swift only appeal pop like Love Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country muziek are not mainstream country. Her country muziek are pop music. u have to use pop muziek to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor snel, swift are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor snel, swift only appeal pop and not going door different genres like country.
Worse, country muziek is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor snel, swift (and only since the Red era) and before her u have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If u showed 100 random Brits a pic of George Strait, u probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.
There are some UK Country muziek singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.
The only real markets for Country muziek are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).
The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor snel, swift because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country muziek in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country muziek in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to muziek on the internet don’t care about country muziek and they only listen to mainstream muziek like rock and regular muziek like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country muziek is suppose to be populair muziek because country are populair music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Europe and populair muziek quickly prefer mainstream muziek as their populair muziek course like R&B and rap.
It's true that country muziek is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 top, boven 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song of it's Taylor Swift.
I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.
Major US Country acts can come and do a concert in London but those attending will be fans because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a sjees, gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!
The internet makes it easier for international fans to follow US Country muziek Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie of Miranda of Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country muziek radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.
A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is populair here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.
I would like Country muziek to be meer successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. Singing about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country muziek into the mainstream and u have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country muziek and populair muziek only appeals country music-less populair muziek like hip-hop.
So I think it has to do with country muziek being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country muziek artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a meer local industry, so its artists are generally meer local.
And I can't at people on a pop muziek forum (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country muziek trash when country muziek fans think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop muziek like Justin Timberlake over country muziek like Kelsey Ballerini.
That’s why country muziek only appeals country tastes like CMT and not populair muziek tastes like Vevo because country muziek is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop fans only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country muziek is boring.
Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to muziek with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is meer interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to muziek only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to populair muziek don’t seem to care about country muziek like Hunter Hayes of good pop muziek like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.
But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get meer criticism. But hip hop is meer global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.
Casual listener perceives country muziek as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country muziek are not mainstream music. Mainstream muziek is country music-less populair muziek like rock and R&B.
I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years geleden during a speak activity about muziek in my English class, I zei that country is very populair in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time geleden and I really love Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves of Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because muziek at least door those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.
As I zei I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where u ride on your horse of something.
The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their veilig zone (the US).
AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Japan and ster Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Europe and America repeats like America films are meer populair than America like country muziek because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?
Well there is a person from Central Europe and honestly, people in Europe had never heard of Garth before one person became meer interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.
Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor snel, swift but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.
But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are meer common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable of appreciate. Need u Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma of wherever.
Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't kruis over to other countries just like their regional muziek doesn't kruis over WW because other countries like Japan don't relate to singing about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country muziek is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.
I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor snel, swift is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And u Belong With Me is a smash.
What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced door mixing the country sound to pop songs.
So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.
But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock of rock sometimes. For example, Need u Now.
Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country muziek at all despite country muziek videos exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I love country muziek until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country muziek can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when u cut through the stupid artists of country, u realize how great it is.
Let’s face it, populair muziek hates country music. Plain and simple. Country muziek doesn’t use populair muziek like electric gitaar which country muziek does and only use regular muziek like twang despite country muziek are not regular music. So why US hates country muziek and US only wants other populair muziek like pop muziek and Beyonce? Why US does not play country muziek and the only way is country stations like CMT?
What are your thoughts on country muziek struggle in the populair muziek industry?
Not only that, populair muziek does not appeal country muziek like Miranda Lambert and u have to use other populair muziek like pop muziek to use people listening to populair music.
Worse, populair muziek like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country muziek like Brad paisley these days.
It appears that country muziek did not survive the populair muziek curse and u have to use regular muziek like video game muziek to hear country muziek like Tim McGraw.
Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country muziek comes from being from its origin. u have to use mainstream muziek like Taylor snel, swift to listen to populair music.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor snel, swift only appeal pop. Her muziek does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. u have to use computer and albums to hear country muziek door her like Ours. Not only that, country muziek don’t care about Taylor snel, swift like Red and u have to use Taylor Swift-less country muziek to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor snel, swift use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor snel, swift only appeal pop like Love Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country muziek are not mainstream country. Her country muziek are pop music. u have to use pop muziek to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor snel, swift are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor snel, swift only appeal pop and not going door different genres like country.
Worse, country muziek is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor snel, swift (and only since the Red era) and before her u have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If u showed 100 random Brits a pic of George Strait, u probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.
There are some UK Country muziek singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.
The only real markets for Country muziek are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).
The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor snel, swift because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country muziek in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country muziek in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to muziek on the internet don’t care about country muziek and they only listen to mainstream muziek like rock and regular muziek like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country muziek is suppose to be populair muziek because country are populair music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Europe and populair muziek quickly prefer mainstream muziek as their populair muziek course like R&B and rap.
It's true that country muziek is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 top, boven 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song of it's Taylor Swift.
I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.
Major US Country acts can come and do a concert in London but those attending will be fans because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a sjees, gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!
The internet makes it easier for international fans to follow US Country muziek Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie of Miranda of Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country muziek radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.
A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is populair here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.
I would like Country muziek to be meer successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. Singing about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country muziek into the mainstream and u have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country muziek and populair muziek only appeals country music-less populair muziek like hip-hop.
So I think it has to do with country muziek being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country muziek artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a meer local industry, so its artists are generally meer local.
And I can't at people on a pop muziek forum (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country muziek trash when country muziek fans think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop muziek like Justin Timberlake over country muziek like Kelsey Ballerini.
That’s why country muziek only appeals country tastes like CMT and not populair muziek tastes like Vevo because country muziek is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop fans only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country muziek is boring.
Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to muziek with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is meer interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to muziek only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to populair muziek don’t seem to care about country muziek like Hunter Hayes of good pop muziek like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.
But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get meer criticism. But hip hop is meer global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.
Casual listener perceives country muziek as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country muziek are not mainstream music. Mainstream muziek is country music-less populair muziek like rock and R&B.
I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years geleden during a speak activity about muziek in my English class, I zei that country is very populair in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time geleden and I really love Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves of Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because muziek at least door those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.
As I zei I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where u ride on your horse of something.
The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their veilig zone (the US).
AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Japan and ster Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Europe and America repeats like America films are meer populair than America like country muziek because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?
Well there is a person from Central Europe and honestly, people in Europe had never heard of Garth before one person became meer interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.
Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor snel, swift but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.
But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are meer common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable of appreciate. Need u Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma of wherever.
Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't kruis over to other countries just like their regional muziek doesn't kruis over WW because other countries like Japan don't relate to singing about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country muziek is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.
I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor snel, swift is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And u Belong With Me is a smash.
What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced door mixing the country sound to pop songs.
So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.
But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock of rock sometimes. For example, Need u Now.
Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country muziek at all despite country muziek videos exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I love country muziek until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country muziek can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when u cut through the stupid artists of country, u realize how great it is.
Let’s face it, populair muziek hates country music. Plain and simple. Country muziek doesn’t use populair muziek like electric gitaar which country muziek does and only use regular muziek like twang despite country muziek are not regular music. So why US hates country muziek and US only wants other populair muziek like pop muziek and Beyonce? Why US does not play country muziek and the only way is country stations like CMT?
What are your thoughts on country muziek struggle in the populair muziek industry?
I know what your all are thinking I must be crazy right? Well No I;m Not and here's a good reason why He has good songs but he just needs meer radio airplay if and only if this happens then I truly feel that vlaamse gaai, jay can surpass Eminem as Rap's Biggest star. I mean Think about it he came on the scene right around the same time as Em yet people have ALWAYS called Em the biggest out of them two. I get that Em has had better success but still vlaamse gaai, jay has been just as successful yeah sure Em get all the airplay but come'on Jay's married to one of if not THE most successful female artist of the last decade. So shouldn't that warrant AT LEAST some airplay I think so.
