I like all three of the Hank Wlilliamsenses, The Man in Black, I like Zac Brown sometimes, and Brooks & Dunn at least made "Hillbilly Deluxe". It blew up in the 90's but there was good as there there was bad if you were into it. But this sequin and skinny jeaned sugar-shaker faggotry I see EVERYWHERE can go straight to H-E-Double hockey sticks. And it's popular as fuck. Niagara Falls has three country bars within a two block stretch. Now that town get shitloads of southern Americans but if you go to the bars it's mostly Ontario/NY kids. There's no "culture" like that here but it's a culture music, like Punk. I'm doing a wedding in October that wants their reception packed with this "type" of country that fuckfaces like Rascal Flatts started. I mean, it doesn't all suck. Keith Urban is widely known as a gifted live performer, Garth Brooks put on HUGE shows back in the 90's but I watched one of their award shows, and no word of s lie it was just pop music with either a banjo, or a fiddle, or both. They have back up dancers. You think Waylon is spinning in his grave?
I had a conversation with an idiot in church this morning. In her words, "there's no such thing as this global warming crap. It's just that the crops are so hot that their souls are sweating. And the sweat is the humidity in the air." Welp. I can't argue any of that. Because you're clearly insane.
Crops have souls? I work with a lot of people who don't believe in global warming, I mean it snowed last winter so it's obviously fake, but the crops having souls is a new one. Most the guys I work with are even farmers.
Thats Kesha? I kind of don't know who that is, but its one of the most touched up photos ever. I started my image search by looking up slutty country girls, didn't expect so much porn to pop up in the results.
Appropriate... I had a girl i went on a few dates with mock me like EDM, even after I played her a new Eric Prydz track that was 8 min long and ridiculously layered and complex, because "its not real music". Then I ask the last 3 concerts she'd been to and it was Rascal Flatts, Florida Georgia Line, and some other blatant pop country. Needless to say that faded quick. Going back to the Police, Sting was and still is a pretentious fool sometimes, but he's an incredible songwriter and had some really interesting literary themes to his songwriting. And their transformation from a lightweight punk band to the reggae rock and experimental sound they went to was impressive. They are probably my fav band that people never realize I love. While his band has never been as creatively talented and adventurous, Chris Martin reminds me of Sting a bit. Another very talented songwriter but too full of himself. And he doesn't have 2 stubborn and opinionated virtuoso musicians behind him like Sting did in the Police, so you get this haughty bland white bread music that Coldplay seems to make with occasional flashes of brilliance. I'm also convinced Coldplay is the way they are cause they never really struggled as a band. 4 upper middle class white dudes meet at a good university in London, make a band, and are signed the week after they finish exams as seniors and immediately become popular.
My gauge now for whether music I grew up with has stood the test of time is if my kids like it. They love Sting and the Police. "Synchronicity" is one of the great albums of all time. There are few true musicians around anymore like those guys.
Yeah, and Bruno Mars admittedly took their sound for Locked Out of Heaven. If a current artist is borrowing from something you did 35 years ago, you got it right.
Eh, I've never been the biggest fan. They have a few songs that I like but I have to take them in small doses. If you watch the documentary, "Who the F*ck is Arthur Fogel?" there's a really interesting segment on their revival tour. Essentially their manager and Live Nation had to treat Sting and the drummer like children to keep the tour on the rails, because they fought that badly.
I have never been that into Sting/The Police. My dad was more of a Stevie Ray Vaughan type. I am so conflicted by her type, because I love the boots and shorts but at the same time she looks like she'll fall for a guy because of his shiny jacked up truck. Would much prefer to see some mud than sequins on the boots.
Stuart Copeland hated Sting so much that he would arrange his drums before every show to make sure he didn't see Sting in his line of sight while playing. This wasn't on their reunion tour, this is while they were the biggest band in the entire world. And they broke up as the biggest band in the entire world because of their childish infighting. Once during a live interview Copland chased Sting off camera, trying to beat him up. They fucking HATED each other.
Was it an ego thing? Because it seems like that's a lot of the root causes for musicians that get famous.
FTFY, because it appears nothing has changed. The base player said in an interview, "We're having trouble because one of the drummers and one of the lead singers don't get along."