Posted on 04/04/2018 5:16:53 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
The abrupt ouster last month of Mike Huckabee from the Country Music Association’s charitable board just 24 hours after his appointment sends a strong signal that Nashville’s cultural revolution is in full swing.
An organized right-wing backlash against the removal of the conservative gadfly and presidential aspirant quickly fizzled, and Music City breathed a sigh of relief. The swiftness of the forced departure of Huckabee, who has been vocal about his support for the NRA and objections to same-sex marriage and parenting, underscores how the country music industry has become a nexus of discussion for two of America’s hot-button topics: gun control and gay rights.
In stepping down from the position, Huckabee bitterly publicized his stance by posting his resignation letter on social media with the headline “Hate Wins” — far from how most of the town saw the decision.
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Philips worried that Huckabee’s appointment might have been seen as reversing the industry’s recent disassociation from NRA Country, an NRA offshoot that once hosted events with singers like Blake Shelton but finally removed what was left of its once sizable affiliated artists page in March after most of the stars listed asked to have their names taken off. As CMT head, Philips says he made a copy of every artist who was on the NRA Country website and “tucked it away as ‘These aren’t people that we necessarily want to be in business with.’ If we were sponsoring tours with acts who were taking money from the NRA, [CMT parent] MTV Networks would have been outraged, and rightfully so.”
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Country music could go from a major industry to a minor footnote in the span of two or three years.
See my tag line for the appropriate response.
Junior nailed it!
Country music died when its male performers started wearing earrings.
New country is the Old Pop.
Pop is usually leftist.
After New Wave and Punk killed Country Rock and Pop Rock, Country gradually filled the void: melodic, accessible, with drums.
It thus became mainstream, and leftist.
I guess so. I find myself increasingly going back to my youth and finding bands I did not listen to much. Several months ago I got on to Delaney & Bonnie, I found an album they did live back in late 1969 and early 1970 On Tour in England. The lineup was Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, and others. That was fantastic. So I am back to looking in the past for good stuff as today’s music is terrible. I am sure there are some good bands out there but radio and such being what it is today hard to find them.
They didn’t . Some did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8YVCTyC-Y
I could live this stuff if CMT never promoted Halloween or Valenswines Day (i hate those holidays). CMT doesn’t endorse population control, one-two child policies or hard drugs being legalized/decriminalized. CMT isn’t that far left. If they supported drugs and population control, CMT fans would riot and hang the CEO of CMT by his neck
Wow! I posted that more then 2 years ago. How did you stumble onto that?
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