Posted on 06/13/2021 2:14:03 PM PDT by rktman
Buddy Brown became a country music star on his own terms, but it wasn’t by choice.
The singer behind “Rowdy Side” and the viral smash “We Gotta Be Less White” went to Nashville to pursue his music dreams. That’s what the rule book says, and he eagerly followed the blueprint … until the industry held up a “stop” sign.
He was too political, the right-leaning Brown tells The Babylon Bee podcast. So he went rogue, building his career without the traditional support structures.
Country Music Television doesn’t mind getting political. The long-running channel recently teamed with the “Wear Orange” campaign to support National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The effort is part of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety’s gun control campaign.
There’s a sizable overlap between country music and gun culture, something CMT found out via a blistering social media backlash, according to Fox News.
Earlier this year, country music sensation Morgan Wallen got caught using the n-word during a private conversation with friends. He didn’t target a black person with the word, though, and Wallen later intimated he had been drinking at the time.
Wallen apologized without hesitation, but powerful forces in the country music scene punished him severely.
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CMT = CBS Viacom = National Amusements = Shari Redstone.
She has served on the Board of Directors of Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
Next: an attempt to degenderize Hank William’s or the Oak Ridge Boys.
Much of the new stuff is crap anyway.
Nothing Roy ever sang sounded like Rap with a twang.
Barbara and Irlene.
Definitely “or more.” If you look at a map of who’s listening to country on Spotify etc. per-capita, it’s very much a red-state thing. And even within those states, it’s reasonable to assume that those listeners skew white and conservative.
As long as the fans buy the schlock why would they ?
American pop and rap is a musical dumpster fire. Comparing trailer park meth lab trash like Miley Cyrus to someone like Floor Jansen of Nightwish is like comparing a rat to an angel.
No. and neither do its fans, judging by the absolute utter garbage that industry has been making since the mid 90s. They keep consuming it.
He should have talked to Johnny before he died to learn just how crooked the CM industry is.
“Bad Rock with a fiddle” is how Tom Petty (RIP) described it.
For me, it began to suck with Billy Ray and his Achy Breaky mania and a lot of Garth Brooks’ stuff. It also would have been much better had Keith Whitley not died when he did (May 1989 from alcohol poisoning).
You know it brother!
Floor, Annete, Tarja, Sharon den Adel, Elize Ryd, Tatiana Schmayluk, Alyssa White-Gluz, each have more talent and skill in their morning shower songs than the cumulative total available to the skanks currently being promoted on American airwaves. It’s disgraceful.
No they don’t care..
Play “Murder On Music Row” and that will explain a lot. We only listen to classic country music none of this rock band crap they’re passing off as country music today.
No. and neither do its fans, judging by the absolute utter garbage that industry has been making since the mid 90s. They keep consuming it.
Exactly!!!
I used to listen to country radio stations years ago.I switched to xm or digital music collections because of the pure crap coming out of Nashville. I love ‘70s country.
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