I've slammed a lot of hip-hop on this blog for being overly simplistic, overly crude, etc. In many ways it's overly stereotypical hip-hop This album is just as bad at being overly country.I was born in Alabama, raised in Kentucky. I worked my way through college on a farm picking squash. My parents grew up in small towns in Tennessee and my father ran his own business after working to put the first man on the moon. I think of my roots as being southern and thus country. I cannot tell you how much I hate music like this.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 0 out of 5 stars for Don't Like.
Back when country music fans really lived out in the country, they didn't spend so much time singing about how great the country is. Instead, they sang about tragedy and heartbreak and death. Now they mostly live in the suburbs and watch big-screen TV's, and so they want to go on and on about the greatness of the little towns they left behind.
ReplyDeleteI understand why they're doing this, but I agree with you that it's not very admirable.
One of the songs on this album "Guns" just makes me sick. It's not the sentiment, it's how the song is presented.
ReplyDeleteLove the no-video for 0-star records trend.
ReplyDeleteGiven that there's no video here, I'll go ahead and post the link to Godley and Creme's "Cry" here, too.
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