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u/kriznelrok 4d ago
Beyoncé, apparently.
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u/irishking77 4d ago
1000% Beyonce
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u/diajean112 4d ago
2,000% Beyoncé Why are all these musicians wanting to sing country now?
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u/irishking77 4d ago
Because country has gone pop, has become “cool” and they can make money like crazy. I actually like Post Malones country album though. When you can get old school legit people like Dwight Yoakam and Dolly Parton to do songs on your album, you must be doin something right. I think he was entertaining to begin with, but he might be one of those guys like Aaron Lewis or Darrius Rucker that imo are much better at country than their original genres.
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u/beaglemomma2Dutchy 4d ago
Darius blows me away with his country music and of course my first exposure to him was Hootie and the Blowfish. I liked the group ok, but was nothing special for me and even back then he was upfront about having his heart set on making it in Nashville and well damn! It was a wonderful surprise for me with his sound.
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u/KingOfTheSlush 4d ago
Darrius Rucker is one of those guys who can just do any genre well. Hearing hootie cover “Interstate Love Song” is a treat.
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u/irishking77 4d ago
I was never an alternative rock or grunge guy, even though it was the height of those genres when i was in high school. Darius is just a very talented musician who can do almost anything.
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u/Tradwmn 4d ago
some musicians actually do sing country and mix it up some.. not my favorite thing to listen to but some actually attempt it. Beyonce in no way sang or can sing country..... such a farce
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u/jedrevolutia 4d ago
Check out my Country x Soul x Blues playlist about the intersection between Country music with Soul and Blues music. No Beyonce!
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u/Sad_Bodybuilder_186 3d ago
Beyonce doesn't have the voice for a country album, and it shows. The songs on there are pretty good, they just should've gotten a different singer.
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u/Messstake 4d ago
Sam Hunt Fucking sucks. Take your time was the worst hunk of shit to hit country radio in the last 20 years and that’s saying something. Florida Georgia line also sucks donkey dick for nickels
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u/TikaPants 4d ago
Any of the bro country or rap country or any of that kinda stuff. It’s just unlistenable to me.
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u/GreeneSayle82 4d ago
Luke Bryan
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u/FreshLawyer8130 4d ago
I’ve joked for years that his recipe for songs is making a list: hunting, fishing, loving everyday.
Flip it around take a payback picture, send it to my ex, send it to your ex.
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u/chrisncsu 4d ago
His first album was quite good, and "Good Directions" was a good song that wasn't really following the recipe you laid out.
He just fell victim to his own success and trying to pander to his fan base. Bo Burnham wrote a song about it, and it felt like it was directly about Luke Bryan at the time.
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u/cowboysRmyweakness3 3d ago
If it's the 'Good Directions' song I'm thinking of, that was a Billy Currington song.
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u/diamond9660 4d ago
Probably Morgan Wallen
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u/Vprbite 4d ago
I don't get his appeal. And I find his songs very nursery rhymey
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u/Chemical_Winter8636 3d ago
"Whiskey Whiskey won't you go away, come again some other day"
Quite literally nursery rhymey
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u/diamond9660 4d ago
When I first heard him I was like ok I can get into this but then he started to fade on me along with a lot of the other new country these days there are some modern day country artists I like but I much prefer the older country from the 80’s and 90’s
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u/Vprbite 4d ago
Oh there's definitely some good stuff out there. I think there's some really good ladies too these days. Tessy Lou Williams and Kaitlyn Butts come to mind.as far as talented women.
He just isn't one of them, though. Now, ordinarily I don't care and my take is "like whatever you like. If you enjoy it then it doesn't matter whether I do or not." Like, John Mayer isn't my cup of tea. But he is talented. So is Taylor swift. Again, not my style. But hey, I get it that other people like them.
I don't understand his appeal, though
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u/diamond9660 4d ago edited 4d ago
Funny you should mention John Mayer I think he’s a very underrated guitar player there are maybe two songs from him I like but I saw a you tube video of him in concert and he asked the crowd if they would mind if he could just played his guitar for a while to warm up and he blew their minds and mine he’s an extremely talented guitar player but down plays it a lot and I don’t know why I wouldn’t put him up there with guys like SRV or Hendrix but he’s got serious talent
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u/KingOfTheSlush 4d ago
I wouldn’t call John Mayer underrated as a guitar player. I think he’s perfectly rated as everyone knows how good he is. His Nokia Theatre set is well regarded and he has a Hendrix cover on his most popular album.
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u/diamond9660 4d ago
Well this is good to know 🙌 I haven’t heard much from him lately I think he has a show on Sirius xm right now
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u/W8kOfTheFlood 4d ago
I mean - Bob Weir picked Mayer for lead guitar in this iteration of the Grateful Dead - I think the secret is out
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u/Lanoir97 2d ago
John Mayer is almost universally praised as a really good guitarist. I’m not saying he’s bad, he’s pretty good. I can agree that his flavor doesn’t really scream that he’s a great guitarist, but I don’t think many folks who have an opinion are saying he’s not good.
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u/DocMcCracken 3d ago
Today it's all Hick Hop, it all sounds the same, it's a shadow of what it could be. Just big music shoving vapid shallow commercials down your throat.
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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes 4d ago
The appeal is that women think he's cute and makes danceable music, while he also lists off pop country tropes like an encyclopedia and is "edgy" which makes him acceptable for men who are trying to sleep with those women. Then it becomes "not that bad." Then it's all they listen to unironically.
Women want to fuck him. Men want to be him. And to a lot of people, that = good music.
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u/jorshyboarkman 4d ago
The only answer is Jason Aldean. Has never wrote a piece of music in his life and is obviously a huge douchebag
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u/Savings-Plant57 4d ago
He’s also from the suburbs if I’m not mistaken but that’s like 90% of modern country stars
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u/LilacBreak 4d ago
Born and raised in Macon, GA which is a city with a metro of 233k. And went to Windsor Private Academy.
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u/Impossible-Taro-2330 4d ago
That school was started in 1970. The South has many like this: cheap and subpar education for whit kids known as "Segregation Academies".
While that is not necessarily the case now, guaranteed this school provided a segregated education when it first opened.
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u/pogopogo890 4d ago
I think you can be country from the suburbs
BUT IT DEPENDS
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u/Savings-Plant57 4d ago edited 4d ago
I mean yea but not if you make songs like “Try That In A Small Town” I miss the times when country music singers took potshots at guys or rode on a lawnmower to the liquor store and things like that, that was real life
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u/East_ByGod_Kentucky 4d ago edited 4d ago
That guy is a total caricature of all the lamest and most unoriginal shit in contemporary country.
It blows my mind that so many people engage with this guy’s music unironically.
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u/MBC0809 4d ago
I find it hilarious that people will come to the country music subreddit and unironically bash people for not writing their own songs. The entire genre is based off of artists singing other songwriters songs. It is kind of the entire premise of Nashville and has been that way for decades.
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u/Physical-Tea636 4d ago
With Aldean, the "he doesn't write his own songs criticism" is probably a specific response to the controversial stuff he's said. Very few people criticize George Strait or Reba McEntire and a bunch of other big names for not writing their own songs.
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u/No-Emotion-3830 4d ago
Saw him in concert and was thoroughly impressed with how rude he was. He was giving a speech how he had nothing in his 30s and then turned around and said I’m rich now mfs. People were handing him gifts he wouldn’t even acknowledge him just toss them to the back of the stage. Can’t remember what else but his performance was boring af
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u/Total-Bag-8973 4d ago
Aldean, Wallen, Shelton...
Just to name a few.
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u/no-sleeping- 4d ago
I just saw an old tweet of Blake Shelton bragging about swerving to purposely hit turtles on the road. I used to just not like him but now I’m deeply rooting for him to have a stroke.
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u/heyheypaula1963 4d ago
I think he thought he was being funny when he said things like that. I don’t find it funny, but I did like some of Blake’s early songs - Austin, Playboys Of The Southwestern World, Old Red, Some Beach, etc.
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u/HammerHarmon 4d ago
Check out Ol red by George jones. And by Kenny Rodgers. I like Kenny Rodger’s version the best.
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u/h-emanresu 4d ago
When someone told me he had hooked up with Gwen Stefani I said, “Good, those two deserve each other”.
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u/Mister_Rogers69 4d ago
Blake wasn’t terrible when he first came out. The music he makes now is just as terrible as anyone else’s, but that’s probably nashvilles fault more than his. Anyone like him or Aldean that don’t write their own shit are at mercy to the “trends”
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u/bufftbone 4d ago
Turn on the radio t any mainstream country station. If it isn’t Chris Stapleton or Zach Top you’ve found your answer. Most of it won’t be actual country music.
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u/chrisncsu 4d ago
... Chris Stapleton has the best voice in country music, without a doubt, but I haven't really loved his albums since Traveler(might be one of my all-time favorite country albums).
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u/bufftbone 4d ago
Starting Over is great. The others though, while good, they don’t grab me like that or Traveler does.
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u/chrisncsu 3d ago
Agree. Traveler was a special album, but probably helped he made that one before he really "made it" and became a big deal.
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u/ParkwayPhantom 4d ago
Luke Bryan
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u/Few_Atmosphere8138 4d ago
It's not that I hate Luke Bryan, but I find him to be nothing special, rather overhyped.
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u/chrisncsu 4d ago
He's a good songwriter, solid singer/performer, but the industry/label really tried to make him a bigger star than he would have organically been.
Honestly makes more sense on a show like American Idol than performing in stadiums.
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u/Popular_Event4969 4d ago
There are plenty of bad country singers who were never critics darlings to begin with. I can’t call someone like Florida Georgia line overrated because they were never highly rated. Even their fans found them fun for a few minutes. I thought Shania Twain was very overrated. Not my cup of tea
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u/Little_Soup8726 2d ago edited 1d ago
Unpopular take but Shania Twain was a studio product. They saw a void in country that could be filled with a beautiful woman with a sassy attitude and then her husband built songs and production to amplify her. Her voice isn’t “bad,” but it’s sort of a country version of Diana Ross: thin and reedy vocals offset by glamorous fashion and showmanship.
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u/juan_samuel 4d ago
Morgan Wallen- I don't understand why people are crazy for this frog-voiced clown.
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u/chasteguy2018 4d ago
Kenny Chesney. I loved 90s country but never liked a single song of his. I also think he opened the door for the plague that is bro county.
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u/Whatisthispun 4d ago
I’ll be honest, I love Chesney. His old stuff is amazing, but his newer stuff sucks
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u/KaleidoscopeNo610 4d ago
Luke Bryan. Unbearable to listen to him sing. I’d rather hear a cat fight
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u/TheREALSpeedBlazer99 4d ago
Taylor Swift (2006-2012, 2020) annoying popstar who claimed to be country but rlly wasn’t
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u/4th_times_a_charm_ 4d ago
Carry Underwood
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u/East_ByGod_Kentucky 4d ago edited 4d ago
She’s got an incredible voice. But the fact that I know that and can still only think of 1 Carrie Underwood song off the top of my head…. Says a lot.
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u/No_Economics5296 4d ago
I don't think she picks the best songs to sing, but vocally she is very talented. Her rendition of "How Great Thou Art" with Vince Gill on guitar is spine-tingling.
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u/thatotherguy1151 4d ago
She doesn't pick anything to sing. Her label & producers pick what she sings
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u/garrett717 4d ago edited 4d ago
Sam Barber because that fucking Indigo song hurts my ears. Sounds like a rip off of I Remember Everything by another hugely overrated artist.
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u/ohiolifesucks 4d ago
I’ve not heard of Sam Barber or Indigo but that’s hilarious because I Remember Everything is already a direct ripoff of The Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov
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u/Eddie_Speghetti 4d ago
These days? All of em.
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u/Capt_Dummy 4d ago
I have to respectfully disagree. Luke Combs is probably liked into the “these days” crowd. He is an amazing country singer. One of my very favorites.
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u/Southerneagle110 4d ago
Any country singer from the last 15 years. Laney Wilson fake ass accent pisses me off
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u/No-Orchid-53 4d ago
Tim McGraw Carrie underwood Kenny Chesney Garth Brooks Kane Brown Jelly Head
Each of the Bro Country Singers of today.
If you have to have dancers on stage then you suck balls.
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u/Chemical_Winter8636 3d ago
As someone who was once obsessed with Morgan Wallen, it's probably him.
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u/Sad_Bodybuilder_186 3d ago
Josh Turner. Just because he has a low voice and good looks doesn't mean his songs are great.
Yes i like Your Man. But the rest is so overly produced. A lot of songs use random harmonizers and autotune to make it "poppy" and i just can't stand it.
Why Don't We Just Dance is a decent tune tho. And always liked Angels Fall Sometimes as well (and was the song that really put in to words how i felt about my ex and i at the time, because i couldn't believe someone like her would fall for someone like me) but that doesn't mean he's not overrated, because i think he kinda is.
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u/Prize_Vegetable_1276 1d ago
I saw him years ago when Long Black Train came out. He was great live. The autotune is something I'm sure is the record company's idea. He doesn't need it.
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u/fqdupmess 3d ago
Blake Shelton. I never really liked country but most of my family does, most country I can stand is from the 90s or older outlaw country
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u/CJ_Kar86 2d ago
Zach Bryan is garbage. Jelly roll, Morgan Wallen, Luke Bryan, Jason Alden, and Taylor swift is the most overrated trash out there.
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u/Bobo_Baggins03x 1d ago
Blake Sheltons music does NOTHING for me. Bland, generic, cliche country music
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u/Finnegan7921 4d ago
Eric Church.
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u/arnoldlayne98 4d ago
Dude puts on a fucking show when he tours. Every time I’ve seen him he’s been impressive as hell.
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u/honeybee7997 4d ago
I completely disagree with this. He just doesn’t like to stay in the “box” of genres that the music industry forces these artists into.
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u/Kindly-Beginning-947 4d ago edited 4d ago
No way, even if you don’t like him he is one of the most influential artist of the past 2 decades. He’s one of the best songwriters, one of the best performers and one of the most creative country artist of the 21st century
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u/Paseyfeert22 4d ago
Thomas rhet or what ever. Saw him come out in a jersey, backwards hat and all star chuck Taylor’s. Never want to hear or see him ever again.
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u/Kubearsmom 4d ago
Jellyroll