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This Year in Music: Country music becomes more multifaceted with revamped sounds and genre-blending collaborations

This story is the third installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of country music. This year will go down as one of the most important years for popular music in the past decade.  Since Jan. 1, 2024, listeners […]

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I can't figure out #postMalone. He's got some kind of woke stink about him, but his latest album is straight-up #broCountry. Good Bro Country (by which I mean good musicians and solid production), but still all about trucks and beer and chicks (which I don't call good lyrics). And his collaborators have no hint of woke. I guess I was expecting some hint of, well, thought behind the lyrics the way he tended to have before he went Full Nashville. Maybe I expected too much.
What #brocountry sounds like for people who don't like #brocountry .. one of many fun, creative #ai audio experiments from There I Ruined It taken down by #youtube
What bro country sounds like to people who don't like bro country

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Heritage of Arrogance, by Adeem the Artist

from the album White Trash Revelry

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#brocountry Americana is “what they used to call ‘unsuccessful country music.’ https://archive.li/g9MPE

https://forward.com/culture/554785/how-jason-aldeans-mean-spirited-song-perverts-paul-simon-and-bruce-springsteens-vision-of-america/

I am a long-time fan of old school #CountryMusic, but not the corporate-style #BroCountry of folks like #JasonAldean. It is sad that #CountryRadio continues to play his hatemongering cliche-ridden crappy pseudomusic.

Of course, thankfully we do have the growing #Americana music format, which I enjoy on stations like #KUSH (1600 Am in Cushing, #Oklahoma) and #KNBT (which I listen to online since it is in #NewBraunfels, #Texas).

Why mean-spirited songwriter Jason Aldean should take a lesson from Paul Simon and Bob Dylan

In 'Try That in America,' Aldean offers a cynical and xenophobic counterpoint to songs like 'My Little Town' and 'My Hometown.'

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