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Post by Johnkenn on Feb 4, 2015 19:44:12 GMT -6
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Post by matt on Feb 4, 2015 21:57:27 GMT -6
The "bottom" denominator keeps getting smaller, doesn't it? As it trends to zero, all meaning is lost.
Hopefully it won't get to that.
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Post by unit7 on Feb 5, 2015 16:12:43 GMT -6
Even worse than Bro Country, not? More like Oh No Country..
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 5, 2015 18:51:31 GMT -6
Song's are getting more and more simple almost child like. Very strange.
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Post by swurveman on Feb 5, 2015 19:53:41 GMT -6
If I could get get get get get
Those three minutes back back back back back
You know I would would would would would
If I only could could could could could
Was there a repetition in lyric writing class going on at NSAI this month?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2015 20:11:39 GMT -6
Are they already raised with Teletubbies on TV? Maybe i get old.
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Post by mobeach on Feb 5, 2015 20:16:33 GMT -6
Do they get paid?
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Post by Johnkenn on Feb 6, 2015 9:20:18 GMT -6
I've kinda jokingly referred to some of this bro country writing as "12th grader writing." You know, like a 12th grade English project. That's the level of craftsmanship and maturity of subject...but good lord, I'm going to have to amend that - this is like a 6th grader project.
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Post by mobeach on Feb 6, 2015 11:24:40 GMT -6
Maybe they can still get a participation award.
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 6, 2015 11:45:18 GMT -6
the most impressive part of the performance is how they get through it without breaking into hysterical laughter or start crying from embarrassment? Another pair of yahoos Giving Taylor a worse name as a bonus smh
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Post by donr on Feb 6, 2015 15:39:21 GMT -6
That's the worse Bob Dylan cover I've ever heard.
When they wrote that, they musta looked at each other and gone, 'yeah, we got something here.'
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Post by kcatthedog on Feb 7, 2015 5:54:45 GMT -6
I'm no pro so take this with a grain of salt, but I go to a lot of open mikes and often leave with a lot of humility cus its seems that there are often a couple of "nobodies" in the audience who get up and just slay everybody cus they are so good; sure didn't feel anything like that here and didn't even finish watching the video.
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Post by donr on Feb 8, 2015 0:52:40 GMT -6
I'm no pro so take this with a grain of salt, but I go to a lot of open mikes and often leave with a lot of humility cus its seems that there are often a couple of "nobodies" in the audience who get up and just slay everybody cus they are so good; sure didn't feel anything like that here and didn't even finish watching the video. I feel only a little bad for dissing David Fanning. Not that these guys stank, they didn't. But the song was practically a parody of bro-country, delivered as if it was all that. I cannot think of a similar parallel of song crapdom in the pop world, except maybe the height of the twist era, or disco, or the fallout from the Creed/Nickleback 'rock' of the '90's/00's. Don't nobody [is that lyrical, or what?  ] misunderstand me. I don't rank out anybody who hits with anything. It's what artists generally aspire to. It's the imitators who rush into the draft of the hit maker like a NASCAR driver, trying to get some of that glory, that doesn't ring true from a song integrity standpoint, even if it gets over commercially. And because it often does, you get the imitators. |
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Post by stratboy on Feb 9, 2015 19:26:44 GMT -6
I kinda like it. As a songwriter, I recognize the basic craft of it, even though it is just a bit of pop fluff sung (written?) by a young, good looking guy with a vaguely southern twang. It has simple, easy to understand lyrics, lots of repetition (human beings have liked that for tens of thousands of years), perfect for the radio except that it doesn't have that 'thing' that makes it stand out from anything. That's why I don't think I will hear it on my local Clear Channel Country station morning drive, but I get what the writers were aspiring to, even if they didn't get there. Like all of you, I wish country music would challenge me more (loved Brandi Clark and her Grammys song),but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 9, 2015 19:39:40 GMT -6
I kinda like it. As a songwriter, I recognize the basic craft of it, even though it is just a bit of pop fluff sung (written?) by a young, good looking guy with a vaguely southern twang. It has simple, easy to understand lyrics, lots of repetition (human beings have liked that for tens of thousands of years), perfect for the radio except that it doesn't have that 'thing' that makes it stand out from anything. That's why I don't think I will hear it on my local Clear Channel Country station morning drive, but I get what the writers were aspiring to, even if they didn't get there. Like all of you, I wish country music would challenge me more (loved Brandi Clark and her Grammys song),but I don't see that happening anytime soon. welcome to the forum, actually you forgot to add the word "Children" in between human beings 8) |
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Post by geoff738 on Feb 9, 2015 21:26:29 GMT -6
I've kinda jokingly referred to some of this bro country writing as "12th grader writing." You know, like a 12th grade English project. That's the level of craftsmanship and maturity of subject...but good lord, I'm going to have to amend that - this is like a 6th grader project. Ok - my kid should be able to write a hit country song in a couple years then! Didn't listen to the song linked. You guys scared me off. Thank you! Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by donr on Feb 9, 2015 23:37:03 GMT -6
I kinda like it. As a songwriter, I recognize the basic craft of it, even though it is just a bit of pop fluff sung (written?) by a young, good looking guy with a vaguely southern twang. It has simple, easy to understand lyrics, lots of repetition (human beings have liked that for tens of thousands of years), perfect for the radio except that it doesn't have that 'thing' that makes it stand out from anything. That's why I don't think I will hear it on my local Clear Channel Country station morning drive, but I get what the writers were aspiring to, even if they didn't get there. Like all of you, I wish country music would challenge me more (loved Brandi Clark and her Grammys song),but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I don't follow the country charts that closely, but it seems it's all caught up now chasing the Eric Church/Florida-Georgia Line model. I like Eric Church, (I confess "Home Boy" has made me choke up a time or two.) And "Cruise" is a song I like and sing along with, in spite of the formula, much the way I liked Carly Rae Jepson's "Call Me Maybe." Sometimes, you just have to acknowledge superb pop craft and enjoy it for what it is. Hopefully, if we're already tired of the bro-country formula, everybody else will tire of it sooner or later and something fresh will come along and displace it on 'country' radio. BTW, country guys who rap or have rappers just drive me nuts. And I like a lot of rap. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 0:03:31 GMT -6
Lyrics aside, they're too stupid to discuss but the vocal hook has seemed to shift from a clever line that was cleverly repeated, to a stupid line that was cleverly repeated, to an obnoxious noise repeated obnoxiously. I personally think we've found the bottom but I've been surprised before.
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] misunderstand me. I don't rank out anybody who hits with anything. It's what artists generally aspire to. It's the imitators who rush into the draft of the hit maker like a NASCAR driver, trying to get some of that glory, that doesn't ring true from a song integrity standpoint, even if it gets over commercially. And because it often does, you get the imitators.
