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.
Guess she’s never heard of Josh Turner
Same happening with bluegrass, too bad.
I'm a fan of Chris Stapleton as well. Also Luke Combs - even though he strolls into "bro country" a lot, he's more authentic than any male singers who are almost feminine (i.e. Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks). On the female side, I'm impressed with Ingrid Andress and Tenille Townes, to name a couple. So not all is bad.
But I get what Loretta is saying. If you tune into country music these days, it is basically sounding like pop music from the 1970s. Not all of it bad. But not authentic country either.
On the Sirius/XM, one of my one-touches is dedicated to Willie's Roadhouse. Outlaw Country not so bad either.
Sing it loud, Loretta!!
Tom Petty said it best, “Bad Rock with a fiddle.”
That’s actually a line from The Blues Brothers.
Everyone I know has gone out searching for authentic country music since the Ken Burns documentary came out. I’ve given two box sets as gifts, the pendelum will return but she’s right, it’s swung way to far the wrong way.
Alan and George said it all in “Murder On Music Row”.....we don’t listen to it anymore. We listen to country classic stations.......pity
Is she is a cross between Toni Tenille and Townes Van Zandt?
No more Hick-pop
But if you play the record backwards, you get them all back.....
I confess, I hated country music as a kid. But I’ve come around on the classics.
> It started with Garth Brooks. <
I agree. Most of today’s country singers are just pop singers wearing a cowboy hat.
Townes Van Zandt is/was a great songwriter...and HUGELY underrated.
Bob Wills and Spade Cooley! Can’t be4at them!
Far as I’m concerned;
Rap can die.
I am not a big country fan but I used to listen to a few minutes of it when I would scan across a station on the radio.
No more.
It’s all sampled and synthesized. Nothing human about it.
Country music was about people. This crap isn’t about anything.
There are usually half a dozen songs on the radio at the same time about her tight jeans and my pickup truck.
That, and country songs about being country. Yeah, I’m country...
Everything dies and so will country, rock and rap music. But they all go to Youtube heaven and are there for eternity so that we may actually commune with the STARS. Some perhaps go to purgatory where they are crying out to be heard, but the most famous ones are heard a lot and have a constellation of hits, clicks and fans that circle the STARS. It’s the music spheres — those celestial bodies that will never die.
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