Mashup Illustrates How Many Country Hits Are Pretty Much The Same Song

wagdog said:
Let's not even talk about blues - someone could mashup hundreds if not a coupla-few thousand I/IV/V's
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It's much harder to mash up. Blues is bigger than people realize. The hacks are killing blues day by day, but it has more variety than what's seen at your local blues jam. Try mashing up North Mississippi Blues with Jump and the minor West Side Chicago styles. It doesn't work.

As much as I can't listen to more than three songs, there's something about modern country that I find compelling and musically academic at the same time. I would love to write in that genre just as a fun experiment.
 
James Franciscus said:
It's much harder to mash up. Blues is bigger than people realize. The hacks are killing blues day by day, but it has more variety than what's seen at your local blues jam. Try mashing up North Mississippi Blues with Jump and the minor West Side Chicago styles. It doesn't work.
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While I'm not disagreeing with you, the same could easily be said for country; you certainly couldn't mashup Willie Nelson and the current bro-country together into something coherent. There is PLENTY of blues that could be mashed up, and no, I don't have the desire to do it.
 
wagdog said:
While I'm not disagreeing with you, the same could easily be said for country; you certainly couldn't mashup Willie Nelson and the current bro-country together into something coherent. There is PLENTY of blues that could be mashed up, and no, I don't have the desire to do it.
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It's a mismatched comparison. Mashing up "Blues" would be very difficult because it covers too many styles. Mashing up contemporary "Bro-Country" not so much, which is why the mash-up that was posted works.

A better comparison for a mash-up would be white contemporary blues guys like Bonamassa, Sheppard, Sayce, Duarte, and Scofield. It would be pretty seamless.
 
Country lyrics were formulaic before A. P. Carter had a chance to write down all those old songs about being poor but loving family, hard work, and Jesus. Gospel is pretty much the same, but without the family and hard work. Doo-wop was pretty much three songs done over and over. 60s bubblegum pop and death rock were the same teen themes ad infitum. Rockabilly and disco had loads of mindless meta-lyrics that just rambled on about the genre and dancing. AC/DC long ago became a self-parody, rehashing the same old cock rock themes—but the deserve credit for outlasting almost all the cock rock and hair metal bands that followed. And most metal subgenres are defined by formulas.

The real problem with the country formula is the godawful autotuned chorus vocals played over the godawful autotuned fiddles. Holy shit does that stuff sound bad.
 
jp_nyc said:
Country lyrics were formulaic before A. P. Carter had a chance to write down all those old songs about being poor but loving family, hard work, and Jesus. Gospel is pretty much the same, but without the family and hard work. Doo-wop was pretty much three songs done over and over. 60s bubblegum pop and death rock were the same teen themes ad infitum. Rockabilly and disco had loads of mindless meta-lyrics that just rambled on about the genre and dancing. AC/DC long ago became a self-parody, rehashing the same old cock rock themes—but the deserve credit for outlasting almost all the cock rock and hair metal bands that followed. And most metal subgenres are defined by formulas.

The real problem with the country formula is the godawful autotuned chorus vocals played over the godawful autotuned fiddles. Holy shit does that stuff sound bad.
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Lot's of folks think of The Carter Family as being the beginning of country music, but I think of them more as folk. Subtle distinction.

To me Jimmy Rodgers is the real father of country music. He had more of a blues influence. The melding of blues with gospel and folk is what birthed country music.

What they're masquerading as country now is just pop with cowboy hats, sometimes.
 
jp_nyc said:
The real problem with the country formula is the godawful autotuned chorus vocals. Holy shit does that stuff sound bad.
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That is by far my biggest complaint about country music. Fuck those chorus vocals in their meathead faces.
 
rhino said:
Lot's of folks think of The Carter Family as being the beginning of country music, but I think of them more as folk. Subtle distinction.

To me Jimmy Rodgers is the real father of country music. He had more of a blues influence. The melding of blues with gospel and folk is what birthed country music.

What they're masquerading as country now is just pop with cowboy hats, sometimes.
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I agree on the Carters... even though it later became classified as country, I just think of it as Appalachian Folk.
 
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