Pistolero put out a fatwa on the new Country Music years ago, but I just figured you know how HE is. Man, was he ever right. Sir Mashalot puts five hit Country songs together at the same time, and they are all the same song.
3 guitarists, 1 solo. Heh.
Pistolero, let me say it here: you were right and I was wrong.
As a palate cleanser, let me offer a song that is authentic.
Heh, quite the mash up.
ReplyDeleteEver heard the Axis of Awesome's Four Chord Song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Pop makes New Country seem totes original.
That's scary. I knew they were similar, but hadn't heard them at all one time like this.
ReplyDeleteI got away from rock when disco came in, and started listening to country. Now it's the new country, and it's all the same. I'm going to have to start writing my own again.
You can sing There's a Long Long Trail along with Keep the Home Fires Burning, but it leads to melancholy.
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd see it my way eventually. ;-) That mashup was sheer genius!
ReplyDeleteThat was actually better than I thought it would be. The songs are virtually identical. Unlike one of the other four chord mashups, they didn't even have to change the key, so that some songs shifted their tonal range up or down.
ReplyDeleteMusic is an industry; like all industries it has things it does well and wants to keep doing. There's less variation between the five songs than between model years of a Chevy/Ford/Toyota. Musically, it's barely even slapping a new color paint on the same body and calling it a new model.
The thing nobody mentions is just how many songs that would fit this mashup fail to do well on the country charts. We saw five #1 songs that are essentially indistinguishable. Was it five out of five, or five out of 500? If the formula worked every time, every song would eventually sound that way. Which is to say it's not the industry that's stuck, it's that the listeners like that music and the industry is cranking out what the customers like.
Bottom line, though, is you can bet your butt that if the formula didn't turn out #1s, another formula would take its place.
Allow me to assist with some hick hop:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hWgwTHMvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDQHevsdA
the industry is cranking out what the customers like.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are and maybe they aren't, but do you have any idea how many No. 1 albums over the last couple of years have had virtually zero airplay on country radio?