The CMA is now just a bunch of the same liberals that that make up the rest of the entertainment industry.
Country used to be different. Now it's just a way to get more of the same junk to a country audience that doesn't know or remember it's past.
Putting a cowboy hat on Lady GA-Ga or Miley Cyrus doesn't make them country singers, and that is pretty much what happened to the industry.
I've no more desire to hear what these CMA fools think than I care to hear the political opinions of Colin Kaepernick or Alec Baldwin.
Garth may have changed country music but certainly did not kill it. Like someone else said I don’t care what their views or history is as long as they are good. They still sing about real life if somewhat differently than 30-50 years ago.
“Country music is dead. Garth Brooks killed it.”
I hated the Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart” mania went on at about this time back in about 1992. Keith Whitley dying in 1989 and that clown Cyrus making it big with that stupid song a few years later both also did country music a great deal of harm as well.
Garth was just a tool in the box of the liberal coastal elite suits who greened all us rubes. He did do the job effectively, but he couldn't have done it without a lot of saps out here who fell for the schtick. Your post, though, is right on. If anyone had told me in 1980 how the entire industry would eventually be dominated by young mediocrities marketed by urban corporate functionaries, I would have said that it wouldn't get that bad. It did. The CMA is just another org run by the leftist media/entertainment complex.
"Post-Garth," I tapered off country music until I basically stopped listening to anybody younger than Waylon Jennings.
Mr. niteowl77
Country music has been “manufactured” for many years now by people who try to sing about country roads they have never driven down.