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Country Music Is ‘Dead’: Icon Loretta Lynn Trashes Modern Hits
Lexington Herald Leader ^ | JANUARY 31, 2020 | Mike Stunston

Posted on 02/02/2020 10:28:04 AM PST by nickcarraway

Loretta Lynn voiced her displeasure with current country music during a recent podcast, and she didn’t hold back.

The 87-year-old country music pioneer told Martina McBride that she thinks country music is “dead.”

“I think it’s a shame,” she said on the ‘Vocal Point with Martina McBride’ podcast, according to WhiskeyRiff.com. “I think it’s a shame to let a type of music die. I don’t care what any kind of music it is. Rock, country, whatever. I think it’s a shame to let it die, and I’m here to start feeding it.”

She later told McBride, who is also a country singer most famous for her work in the 1990s and 2000s, that it’s “a sad situation because we should never let country music die.”

She continued: “I’m getting mad about it. I am. Because it’s ridiculous,” as reported by PEOPLE Magazine.

The full podcast with Lynn is available at luminarypodcasts.com.

Lynn, who rose to fame in the 1960s and remains one of the most popular artists of her genre, later took to Facebook to follow up on her comments to McBride.

The Kentucky native said she loves country music and is proud of its heritage, but feels the “hard push to crossover” is ruining the genre. Many current country acts are incorporating pop or rap into their songs.

“I like it country — pure and simple and real,” she said on Facebook. “I am so proud of all the artists out there, especially the younger ones, who know what I mean and are still keeping it country. When you love something, you can’t just stand by quietly if you think it’s in danger.”

It’s not the first time Lynn sounded off on the country music genre. In 2010 she wrote in the introduction to her biography about the blurred lines between country and pop.

“Some of these country singers aren’t really country ... I think some of them should be singing pop music and leave country alone,” she wrote, according to TheBoot.com.

Lynn suffered a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip a year later. She made her first public appearance in nearly two years last April for an all-star tribute birthday concert in her honor. Music legends from every generation were in attendance for the event.

Earlier this week, Lynn may have just won the viral “Dolly Parton Challenge.” In her social media post, she wrote “Y’all wish” for where a Tinder photo would have gone.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: countrymusic; hickhop; lorettalynn; music
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1 posted on 02/02/2020 10:28:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

well, you can only loose your wife, kids, dogs so many time before it gets old.


2 posted on 02/02/2020 10:30:24 AM PST by VAFreedom (maybe i should take a nap before work)
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To: nickcarraway

Yep. I only listen to the oldies, country and rock.


3 posted on 02/02/2020 10:31:48 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s not totally dead. Cody Johnson is keeping traditional, Texas country music alive and well.


4 posted on 02/02/2020 10:32:25 AM PST by cjshapi (Proudly posting without a tagline since 2001)
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To: VAFreedom

Never gets old. Been happening since the start of time. No cure.


5 posted on 02/02/2020 10:32:45 AM PST by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s all fake and marketing.


6 posted on 02/02/2020 10:32:50 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

It started with Garth Brooks.


7 posted on 02/02/2020 10:33:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

“Country Music Is ‘Dead’............”

Yes.


8 posted on 02/02/2020 10:33:30 AM PST by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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To: lakecumberlandvet

I listen to both kinds: Country AND Western.


9 posted on 02/02/2020 10:33:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Country music has ALWAYS incorporated the popular musical trends of the day....even disco.

That comes and goes...but the country part remains.


10 posted on 02/02/2020 10:34:11 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: VAFreedom

And truck.


11 posted on 02/02/2020 10:34:31 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: VAFreedom
The perfect country & western song.
12 posted on 02/02/2020 10:35:29 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: jdsteel

Yep. Cowboy music from the ‘30s - ‘40s had a lot of jazz.


13 posted on 02/02/2020 10:36:09 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: dfwgator

“Urban Cowboy”


14 posted on 02/02/2020 10:36:10 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: nickcarraway

Bro Country, Tractor Rap, etc., etc. The kids love it but it’s not for me. My dad told me the same thing when I listened to the Beatles. To each his own and that includes to generations.


15 posted on 02/02/2020 10:36:33 AM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: lakecumberlandvet

I have no idea what that stuff they’re producing now is. One thing for sure, it ain’t country. I listen to Sean Hannity’s radio program. He has some Gawd awful noise as his theme. I think that trash is supposed to be modern country music.


16 posted on 02/02/2020 10:36:58 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: dfwgator

I listen to both kinds: Country AND Western and Bluegrass


17 posted on 02/02/2020 10:38:17 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: kosciusko51

“Urban Cowboy”

Yep, certainly a factor, as well.


18 posted on 02/02/2020 10:40:11 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Six-Song Mashup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o


19 posted on 02/02/2020 10:41:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

If you wear a cowboy hat while you’re singing, that makes it country. Right?


20 posted on 02/02/2020 10:42:28 AM PST by marron
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