[gcruse]

The music coming out now is for the kids who will buy the records. Country is for grown ups. You're showing your age. :)

[Wondervixen]

I didn't say I'm a country fanatic...I prefer the music of my grade school years like those I mentioned. Too bad that by the time of my high school years, this brand of Band music was being phased out by young turks in the music hierarchy.

Besides, where does the money these kids spend on this entertainment come from? ANSWER: The parents who are too busy trying to be their kids "best friends" rather than their responsible guardians.

[CatoRenasci]

Your quite correct that the music industry produces what it believes will sell, and when something does sell, it's imitated by a thundering herd of the talentless.

Remember in the '60s, the folk music which became popular grew by word of mouth and small labels for over a decade before it reached the critical mass that brought it to the mass audience. Likewise, the "San Francisco sound" acid rock bands were playing around the Bay Area for several years before they became popular enough, and received the exposure at places like the Monterey festival, to be picked up by the big labels. Even the then talentless Beatles were a garage and club band for several years before their big breaks and the Invasion of the US. Elvis, too, spent a number of years on the local ciruits in the South and Southwest before his national debut and fame.

[gunnedah]

The music coming out now is from the jungles and the major crime ridden inner cities.It surely carries a message and it is a form of brainwashing like this country has never seen.Between Hollywood,the press and the music industry we have become another Soddom & Gomorrah.
In the name of diversity we have destroyed America and she does not even resemble anything the founding fathers had in mind.
As long as we are a nation "ruled by lawyers" we will slide down this slippery slope until we become another third world country.

[E Rocc]

The music coming out now is for the kids who will buy the records. Country is for grown ups.

I guess I just refuse to grow up. >:) Once you get used to it a lot of the new stuff (even Eminem) is very good, and I can't stomach hillbilly music.

-Eric