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.
Bulls eye.
And not one of these God and Country frauds were willing to perform at Trumps inauguration. After Brooks reneged they all bailed.
But you will always have your faithful truck.
Hell today’s country stars probably drive Electric Trucks.
It's about the only place a person might get to hear Loretta Lynn... or Ernest Tubb, or Lefty Frizzell, or...
Outsiders with expensive suits have "ruined" county music a bunch of times, usually with the help of county musicians having a hankering for their own expensive suits. Someone generally resuscitates it and starts the whole cycle over again.
She’s right
“well, you can only loose your wife, kids, dogs so many time before it gets old”
They’re always lyin’, cryin’ or dyin’.
We have been watching The Andy Griffith Show on Netflix. I am really enjoying the episodes that feature music.
THANK YOU! When the news goes off after Rush, I turn it off because I know that nail-on-the-chalkboard song is about to come on. Then I forget to turn Sean back on. So essentially, I haven't much listened to Sean since he started playing that stupid song.
Yeah, I suppose that's true enough.. But as time goes by it seems to take less and less talent to make more and more money.. The more it cost, the cheaper it gets...
Lot of people make fun of this kind of music.
I think it’s because it’s mostly white music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsf12RAJEQ
Yep, that’s why you had The Wrecking Crew. Studio time was expensive, you needed musicians that could get it right the first time, and quickly.
Wonder if she has been to a church lately? Sad.
I’ve never been a fan of country but I’ve always loved Patsy Cline.....
More specifically it’s all “Produced” music anymore where the record producer dictates to the artist what’s they think will sell. While the musicians do create and write, sometimes they buy from a songwriter, what ultimately gets recorded with the producers input, many times strays far away from the musicians original idea.
George Strait sang that the music must have “twang”.
Today’s “country” doesn’t
I remember when it was country, Western and Hawaiian. I have no idea how the latter got into country but it did.
She is right BTW.
It all sounds like pop.
country music has always evolved.. what Loretta Lynn sang in the 60’s and 70’s was a lot different from country music from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s
WZAZ where disco lives forever.
The roadhouse is one of mine as well.
148 the OTR station is usually my first touch on startup.
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