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.
Oh man. If you’re gonna go Ghoultown, I just have to respond with some Angry Johnny.
All American Girl - Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1NLYlEE-A
Not safe for sensitive types or those prone to the vapors.
Yeah...
She’s right.
Wow....another strange reply.
Woman?
Take a walk?
Hmmmmm.....
You sure you weren’t ever here, before, under a different s/n?
Maybe YOU should take a walk.
She’s just old... she’ll get over it.
Country music has always changed. The Country Music series on PBS showed that.
LOL...
Thanks.
Proved my point.
You’ll love this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigjZ7ng_tc
Hey....don’t run!
I stopped listening to Country when it turned into pop with an accent.
Just checking some replies a few days late. I see we must both be old. I remember listening to Bill Monroe on the Grand Ole Opry on one of the first kind of radios. I assume battery operated and a wire running up the screen on the window. All of my childhood memories now are antiques, and so am I. May have 5 more years at best and good health. 86.
I remember those days tho you are 4 years older than me. My father made most of the radios in the beginning had wire strung from front yard to back for antenna.
And train
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