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Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:08:49 AM

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I was and am of the impression that Keith Urban as you see him on American Idol is helping to coffin nail CW music as it was known.

He has pushed those artists who are country to apply themselves to Rock but he did not push the rockers to adapt to more pure or older forms of Country Music when it was their turn to sing CW.

Why is taht? Because Rockers first really cant sing, but rather thinking screaching for the high notes is appealing to the ear. Give me a break.

It does seem to me that Rock has always tried to inflict itself on every other form of music style and change it to become more Rock in nature.

I recall a few years ago at on a Christmas TV special rockers tried to sing traditional Christmas songs, and sucked at it. They could not sing so as to be pleasant to the ear, they did not know how. Get Rock out of CW and short sheet any CW singer who tries to bring in Rock into their music or get them out of CW completely.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:14:25 AM

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...Because Rockers first really cant sing, but rather thinking screaching for the high notes is appealing to the ear. Give me a break.

And I think all of CW in exactly the same light. It should be banned.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:19:15 AM

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And I think all of CW in exactly the same light. It should be banned.

you
And when you are 99 years old, and sitting in your rocking chair, the music
blaring you'll say to your better half, "Honey turn off the stupid power saw so
I can hear the words to the music."

She will say, "Listen, old man, that is the music you listened to since you were a little
tyke That you can't understand the words now is because you helped to kill that
music you could have enjoyed now if you hadn't been the way you were back then."

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:25:16 AM

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I don't know who Keith Urban is, but if he is facilitating the death of country music, he is my new favorite person.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:28:00 AM

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I don't know who Keith Urban is, but if he is facilitating the death of country music, he is my new favorite person.

I'd love to see the death to noise that is called rock, where you can't understand what is being sung , whatsoever. You call listening to screaching music?

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:31:22 AM

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She will say, "Listen, old man, that is the music you listened to since you were a little
tyke That you can't understand the words now is because you helped to kill that
music you could have enjoyed now if you hadn't been the way you were back then."

Ummmm.... Nope!
None of my friends, nor my parents or their friends ever liked Country & Western shit.
My kids and none of their friends like it either.
I never had to endure that rubbish when I was younger and I have no plans to do so when I get older either.

If you like it... Good for you.
But don't tar everyone with the same brush.
My tastes are much different to yours.

ETA: Incidentally, most of my "rock" is instrumental, so no screeching.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:37:23 AM

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yes Buddy Holly or jazz or bluegrass or big band, or opera as you don't have to know words to appreciate the greatest vocals in the world.

But modern rock, there hasn't been a song that would ever be considered memorable in any sense of the word.

Oh, forgot about Peter Paul and Mary,
It seems Folk has gone down as well as Rockers do not want people to understand or enjoy or have a fond memory but filled with hate.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 11:53:25 AM

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yes Buddy Holly or jazz or bluegrass or big band, or opera as you don't have to know words to appreciate the greatest vocals in the world.

I hate vocals of any sort.
And.... I particularly hate all of those genres you mentioned.

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But modern rock, there hasn't been a song that would ever be considered memorable in any sense of the word.

Tell that to the billions of people around the world that followed it (and many still do) from the late 50's to the modern day.

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Oh, forgot about Peter Paul and Mary,
It seems Folk has gone down as well as Rockers do not want people to understand or enjoy or have a fond memory but filled with hate.

Not hate. Just a different PoV for liking different sounds.

If you don't like rock, that's your thing. Go for it.

But don't assume that everyone else has the same taste in sounds that you have.
I deliberately didn't call it music because, quite frankly, your particular taste in sound is such a god-awful noise in my ears that I don't consider it "music" at all.

Viva la difererence!!

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:02:17 PM

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Viva la difererence!!

Understood, it would be boring to understand the words and when you are 99
, in your rocking chair, just turn on the circular saw, same difference. smiles and
enjoy the screaching in your hearing aids

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:39:06 PM

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Viva la difererence!!

Understood, it would be boring to understand the words and when you are 99
, in your rocking chair, just turn on the circular saw, same difference. smiles and
enjoy the screaching in your hearing aids

I wouldn't have that problem because I don't listen to your type of sounds.

And my sounds don't have words to worry about!

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:42:10 PM

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I was and am of the impression that Keith Urban as you see him on American Idol is helping to coffin nail CW music as it was known.

I think it was that bastard Chamberalin personally.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:42:15 PM

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And my sounds don't have words to worry about!

Well, in that case, "Fingers, Chalkboard, Scratching," don't have words either.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:45:20 PM

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I think it was that bastard Chamberalin personally.

Let's see, coffin nail, or dead as a door nail, that is an idiom from ages past used by
a 'Brit', named Dickens, so

It is the Dickens to me who killed CW music. There worked his name into a sentence in a metaphorical type of sense.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:50:05 PM

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And my sounds don't have words to worry about!

Well, in that case, "Fingers, Chalkboard, Scratching," don't have words either.

And that would be music to my ears rather than the catawailing you call music!

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 12:57:11 PM

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And that would be music to my ears rather than the catawailing you call music!

This song is for you rockers

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 1:11:06 PM

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CW music as it was known has been dead since the 70s.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 1:14:39 PM

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yes Buddy Holly or jazz or bluegrass or big band, or opera as you don't have to know words to appreciate the greatest vocals in the world.

But modern rock, there hasn't been a song that would ever be considered memorable in any sense of the word.

Oh, forgot about Peter Paul and Mary,
It seems Folk has gone down as well as Rockers do not want people to understand or enjoy or have a fond memory but filled with hate.

Rather, large commercial radio took over what was until the 70s an artist-driven medium.

There are plenty of creative musicians -- just not outlets willing to play them, preferring a much smaller, predictable playlist.

Add to that two generations raised on such mediocre and stale "selection," and they don't know the difference anymore.

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 1:27:24 PM

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Rather, large commercial radio took over what was until the 70s an artist-driven medium.

I thought Alan Jackson wrote some of his early stuff but

On Nashville Stars each contestant was to perform a song they actually wrote
I thought Buddy Jewell Wrote This

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 1:44:00 PM

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Good for you. Enjoy!

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RE: Is Country Music Dead, Is Keith Urban help to kill it? - 5/12/2014 1:51:44 PM

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Good for you. Enjoy!

My point is, I should have made clear is, Jewell did not write that song.

But This Guy did write several he performed on Nashville Stars and seemed to be the real deal.

Plus, his smile, his personna was genuine compared to Buddy's. In my Humblest Opinion.

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