most c&w songs, being sung in the same pitch and tenor by a crowd of weeping girly-boys, only grate on my nerves.
I don’t remember the last time I listened to a complete ‘wailing song’.
Yep, a lot of it is terrible
“...being sung in the same pitch and tenor by a crowd of weeping girly-boys...”
Apt description, and the same with pop music. Today, if you add a whine to that girly-boy pitch and tenor, you will have a hit record with all genres.
They were complaining about that many, many years ago...
In every other song that I've heard lately
some fella gets shot
And his baby and his best friend both die with him
as likely as not
In half of the other songs Some Cat's crying or ready to die
We're losin' most of our happy people And I'm a wonderin' why
Let's think about livin'
Let's think about lovin'
Let's think about the whoopin' and hoppin and boppin'
and the lovie, lovie dovin'
Let's forget about the whinin' and the cryin'
And the shooting and the dying
And the fellow with a switchblade knife
Let's think about livin'
Let's think about life
I like whaling songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akQ6NgP1avI