Things were certainly different in Roy's day.
Posted on 07/12/2021 11:01:05 AM PDT by rktman
Country music star John Rich of Big & Rich told Breitbart News this weekend that the “very liberal” majority of those in the country music industry have become “emboldened” in recent months to push woke leftist ideology publicly in contravention of the views of the majority of the country music audience. Rich said the mere “threat of cancellation” keeps conservative-leaning artists from speaking out, arguing it is actually a “step deeper than” cancel culture — ultimately creating a divide between the country music industry and the country music audience.
“The industry of country is, I would say, I can’t give you a percentage but let’s just say the majority is very liberal,” Rich said in an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel. “They’ve been that way for a long time. It’s interesting that the industry that puts out country music doesn’t really align with a lot of the audience. A lot of folks that listen to country, and again I can’t give you a percentage but I can tell you a majority of the audience probably leans conservative. So you’ve got this gulf, kind of, between the two. Over the years, the industry has never really come out really strongly about their liberal edge that they’ve got until recently, maybe in the past six to 12 months. They’ve started coming out more and more and the problem you get is if you’ve got artists that are conservative but their record label, their publicist, their manager, a lot of the radio stations are being overseen by liberals. We used to be able to make music and get it played and still say what we wanted to say and still get our music played but that’s not really the case now.”
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Rain on the scarecrow.
>>“The industry of country is, I would say, I can’t give you a percentage but let’s just say the majority is very liberal,” Rich said in an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel. “They’ve been that way for a long time. It’s interesting that the industry that puts out country music doesn’t really align with a lot of the audience.
Same with the Leftist takeover of leadership in churches.
Things were certainly different in Roy's day.
Nashville has been taken over by Los Angeles and Manhattan hipsters and red diaper babies
And bitches....yes nasty hear me roar women
And a fair amount of queers
Put a fork in it
It’s the only music whites have left
Of course they had to ruin it
I visited Nashville twice back in the mid 90s and had even wanted to settle down there to work and live in. I took a look on Google Streetview of Music Row and other well known areas I remember and can barely recognize them. Someone else here on another thread remarked about how the Hickory Hollow Mall has become really run down and crummy these days.
CITE THE PUBLISHER'S OF THE STAR AS THE GUILTY PARTY
Just like citing the gun manufacturers.
Critical thinking 101
You can’t just sing a pop song with a southern accent and call it a country song. A great many in the industry now are poseurs. They aren’t country. Real country tells woke to pound sand.
Exactly, it's why Taylor Swift lost popularity in Nashville.
The left has infected and ruined everything good in this country. If the country leans right/center-right as we always hear, how has this happened? I’m not sure I believe that we are the majority anymore, if we ever were.
What ever happened to Randolph Scott, Tex Ritter and Gene Autry?
Bob Wills is still the King!
Hickory Hollow Mall, half was taken over by Nashville State University. The rest is a smattering of mexican, and other country kiosks. Preds still work out in the ice rink, but not a real good place you want to be in.
A lot of “country” music is crap, has been for quite a while.
I’ll stick with my old CD’s of Hank Sr. And Lefty Frizzell ... and that’s the only “lefty” I will listen too.
Almost all of them went on to make a gospel record in an attempt to atone for their sins, but one wonders how remorseful they were.
And these are the people that the generally conservative country music audience listens to.
And that's just the talent. It's almost certain that whatever the stars are doing the producers, talent agents, radio station owners, etc. are doing in spades.
They are diamonds... er... rhinestones in the rough.
If I could go back in time to Nashville back in the 1970s to very early ‘90s timeframe, I would like to go and see both the Jim Reeves Museum (remember driving by it’s old location on the Gallatin Pike) and the original House of Cash (in Hendersonville). Bet those were really neat places to visit.
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