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.
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KDDD Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas.
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Some of that country rap ain’t half bad.
Colt Ford - Workin’ On (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAfc6i63OY0
Feebird!
I mean Freebird!
Oh heck....
Millennial generation canceled everything. Rock is just as dead.
Tried to watch Luke Combs last night on Saturday Night Live. Like Luke, but SNL is just unwatchable and off the rails. It’s in the gutter.
Aaron Lewis - God and Guns (Acoustic) // Country Rebel HQ Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIM9LtMWr70
I saw that some time ago... good stuff.
Old age is, sometimes, a bitch... Forgetful me...I'm crazy...
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Creed Fisher - This Place Called USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znz0wbs6zH4
Not old school country or country/western, but southern rock is still going strong.
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I think the talent moved to the Country side - so what we see isn’t traditional country anymore, it is the most recent bastion of a bit more independent musical expression (yes, I know there are much more independent bastions, but they get no airplay at all). I’ve been to several “country” music concerts lately, they were eerily similar to the 70s rock concerts to me
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The 70s and 80s rock music just got stale and old . . .
Combichrist - Maggots At The Party (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nck4FkKeJ0E
Tim Montana | American Thread (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHj6dRFZv8
or, something mellower and a bit bluesie..
Seasick Steve - Hobo Low
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a33sB3ck28A
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