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bigjtink wrote:

[Because country artists have figured out how to connect with the fans. Smart business and good customer service.

Maybe. But I think they also cater to the lowest common denominator of humanity. "Honkey-Tonk Badonkadonk" comes to mind. Then you have true country artists producing strong country albums like Dwight Yoakum who get zero airplay. Like so many other things, country music is a popularity contest.

SpectreFate wrote:

bigjtink wrote:

[Because country artists have figured out how to connect with the fans. Smart business and good customer service.

Then you have true country artists producing strong country albums like Dwight Yoakum....

If that's good country...you just REDEFINED the "lowest-common-denominator"!!!

That is some awful awful country, that's why Yoakum has always been on the outside, short of a couple #1's back in the early 90's. If PeeWee Herman sang country....that's what I'd imagine him to sound like.

Dwight Yoakam was pretty bad-ass as one of the villains in the movie "Panic Room" though.

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Maybe. But I think they also cater to the lowest common denominator of humanity.

I do not know how to respond to that. Ignorance? Not meaning to insult you but really?

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Like so many other things, country music is a popularity contest.

Metal isn't?

Fat Freddy wrote:

Dwight Yoakam was pretty bad-ass as one of the villains in the movie "Panic Room" though.

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bigjtink wrote:

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Maybe. But I think they also cater to the lowest common denominator of humanity.

I do not know how to respond to that. Ignorance? Not meaning to insult you but really?

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Like so many other things, country music is a popularity contest.

Metal isn't?

Do you really think the average country fan is at the top of the food chain? Ever been to the Southeastern US? It will open your eyes.

Metal isn't a popularity contest, because it isn't a popular form of music, mainstream-wise.

SpectreFate wrote:

bigjtink wrote:

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Maybe. But I think they also cater to the lowest common denominator of humanity.

I do not know how to respond to that. Ignorance? Not meaning to insult you but really?

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Like so many other things, country music is a popularity contest.

Metal isn't?

Do you really think the average country fan is at the top of the food chain? Ever been to the Southeastern US? It will open your eyes. .

and there are very sophisticated and well-spoken country fans as well. Look at how some of the metalheads dress and talk up here in the NE.

SpectreFate wrote:

Metal isn't a popularity contest, because it isn't a popular form of music, mainstream-wise.

I think country music is more a way of life for the majority of the genre's fans.

All forms of entertainment are by nature, a popularity contest to some degree or another.

bigjtink wrote:

All forms of entertainment are by nature, a popularity contest to some degree or another.

I agree. Metalheads are fond of saying it is a way of life but in reality they are choosing to listen to one form of music over another.