Is it me au why country muziki only appeal US and Canada and regular muziki and not maarufu music? Why country muziki worldwide release only appeal pop muziki release kwa country artists like Florida Georgia Line pop muziki and crossover like Lady Antebellum’s Need wewe Now? That’s all people listening to country muziki worldwide does these days. Pop muziki released kwa country stars like Leann Rymes pop muziki and crossover like The Band Perry’s If I Die Young.
Not only that, maarufu muziki does not appeal country muziki like Miranda Lambert and wewe have to use other maarufu muziki like pop muziki to use people listening to maarufu music.
Worse, maarufu muziki like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country muziki like Brad paisley these days.
It appears that country muziki did not survive the maarufu muziki curse and wewe have to use regular muziki like video game muziki to hear country muziki like Tim McGraw.
Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country muziki comes from being from its origin. wewe have to use mainstream muziki like Taylor mwepesi, teleka to listen to maarufu music.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor mwepesi, teleka only appeal pop. Her muziki does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. wewe have to use computer and albums to hear country muziki kwa her like Ours. Not only that, country muziki don’t care about Taylor mwepesi, teleka like Red and wewe have to use Taylor Swift-less country muziki to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor mwepesi, teleka use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor mwepesi, teleka only appeal pop like upendo Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country muziki are not mainstream country. Her country muziki are pop music. wewe have to use pop muziki to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor mwepesi, teleka are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor mwepesi, teleka only appeal pop and not going kwa different genres like country.
Worse, country muziki is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor mwepesi, teleka (and only since the Red era) and before her wewe have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If wewe showed 100 bila mpangilio Brits a pic of George Strait, wewe probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.
There are some UK Country muziki singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.
The only real markets for Country muziki are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).
The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor mwepesi, teleka because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country muziki in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country muziki in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to muziki on the internet don’t care about country muziki and they only listen to mainstream muziki like rock and regular muziki like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country muziki is suppose to be maarufu muziki because country are maarufu music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Europe and maarufu muziki quickly prefer mainstream muziki as their maarufu muziki course like R&B and rap.
It's true that country muziki is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 juu 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song au it's Taylor Swift.
I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.
Major US Country acts can come and do a tamasha in London but those attending will be mashabiki because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!
The internet makes it easier for international mashabiki to follow US Country muziki Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie au Miranda au Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country muziki radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.
A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is maarufu here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.
I would like Country muziki to be zaidi successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. imba about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country muziki into the mainstream and wewe have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country muziki and maarufu muziki only appeals country music-less maarufu muziki like hip-hop.
So I think it has to do with country muziki being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country muziki artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a zaidi local industry, so its artists are generally zaidi local.
And I can't at people on a pop muziki foramu (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country muziki trash when country muziki mashabiki think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop muziki like Justin Timberlake over country muziki like Kelsey Ballerini.
That’s why country muziki only appeals country tastes like CMT and not maarufu muziki tastes like Vevo because country muziki is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop mashabiki only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country muziki is boring.
Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to muziki with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is zaidi interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to muziki only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to maarufu muziki don’t seem to care about country muziki like Hunter Hayes au good pop muziki like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.
But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get zaidi criticism. But hip hop is zaidi global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.
Casual listener perceives country muziki as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country muziki are not mainstream music. Mainstream muziki is country music-less maarufu muziki like rock and R&B.
I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years zamani during a speak activity about muziki in my English class, I alisema that country is very maarufu in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time zamani and I really upendo Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves au Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because muziki at least kwa those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.
As I alisema I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where wewe ride on your horse au something.
The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their salama zone (the US).
AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Japan and nyota Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Europe and America repeats like America sinema are zaidi maarufu than America like country muziki because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?
Well there is a person from Central Europe and honestly, people in Europe had never heard of Garth before one person became zaidi interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.
Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor mwepesi, teleka but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.
But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are zaidi common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable au appreciate. Need wewe Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma au wherever.
Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't kuvuka, msalaba over to other countries just like their regional muziki doesn't kuvuka, msalaba over WW because other countries like Japan don't relate to imba about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country muziki is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.
I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor mwepesi, teleka is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And wewe Belong With Me is a smash.
What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced kwa mixing the country sound to pop songs.
So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.
But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock au rock sometimes. For example, Need wewe Now.
Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country muziki at all despite country muziki video exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I upendo country muziki until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country muziki can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when wewe cut through the stupid artists of country, wewe realize how great it is.
Let’s face it, maarufu muziki hates country music. Plain and simple. Country muziki doesn’t use maarufu muziki like electric guitar, gitaa which country muziki does and only use regular muziki like twang despite country muziki are not regular music. So why US hates country muziki and US only wants other maarufu muziki like pop muziki and Beyonce? Why US does not play country muziki and the only way is country stations like CMT?
What are your thoughts on country muziki struggle in the maarufu muziki industry?
Not only that, maarufu muziki does not appeal country muziki like Miranda Lambert and wewe have to use other maarufu muziki like pop muziki to use people listening to maarufu music.
Worse, maarufu muziki like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country muziki like Brad paisley these days.
It appears that country muziki did not survive the maarufu muziki curse and wewe have to use regular muziki like video game muziki to hear country muziki like Tim McGraw.
Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country muziki comes from being from its origin. wewe have to use mainstream muziki like Taylor mwepesi, teleka to listen to maarufu music.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor mwepesi, teleka only appeal pop. Her muziki does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. wewe have to use computer and albums to hear country muziki kwa her like Ours. Not only that, country muziki don’t care about Taylor mwepesi, teleka like Red and wewe have to use Taylor Swift-less country muziki to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor mwepesi, teleka use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor mwepesi, teleka only appeal pop like upendo Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country muziki are not mainstream country. Her country muziki are pop music. wewe have to use pop muziki to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor mwepesi, teleka are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor mwepesi, teleka only appeal pop and not going kwa different genres like country.
Worse, country muziki is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor mwepesi, teleka (and only since the Red era) and before her wewe have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If wewe showed 100 bila mpangilio Brits a pic of George Strait, wewe probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.
There are some UK Country muziki singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.
The only real markets for Country muziki are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).
The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor mwepesi, teleka because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country muziki in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country muziki in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to muziki on the internet don’t care about country muziki and they only listen to mainstream muziki like rock and regular muziki like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country muziki is suppose to be maarufu muziki because country are maarufu music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Europe and maarufu muziki quickly prefer mainstream muziki as their maarufu muziki course like R&B and rap.
It's true that country muziki is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 juu 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song au it's Taylor Swift.
I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.
Major US Country acts can come and do a tamasha in London but those attending will be mashabiki because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!
The internet makes it easier for international mashabiki to follow US Country muziki Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie au Miranda au Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country muziki radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.
A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is maarufu here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.
I would like Country muziki to be zaidi successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. imba about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country muziki into the mainstream and wewe have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country muziki and maarufu muziki only appeals country music-less maarufu muziki like hip-hop.
So I think it has to do with country muziki being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country muziki artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a zaidi local industry, so its artists are generally zaidi local.
And I can't at people on a pop muziki foramu (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country muziki trash when country muziki mashabiki think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop muziki like Justin Timberlake over country muziki like Kelsey Ballerini.
That’s why country muziki only appeals country tastes like CMT and not maarufu muziki tastes like Vevo because country muziki is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop mashabiki only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country muziki is boring.
Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to muziki with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is zaidi interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to muziki only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to maarufu muziki don’t seem to care about country muziki like Hunter Hayes au good pop muziki like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.
But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get zaidi criticism. But hip hop is zaidi global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.
Casual listener perceives country muziki as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country muziki are not mainstream music. Mainstream muziki is country music-less maarufu muziki like rock and R&B.
I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years zamani during a speak activity about muziki in my English class, I alisema that country is very maarufu in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time zamani and I really upendo Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves au Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because muziki at least kwa those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.
As I alisema I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where wewe ride on your horse au something.
The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their salama zone (the US).
AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Japan and nyota Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Europe and America repeats like America sinema are zaidi maarufu than America like country muziki because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?
Well there is a person from Central Europe and honestly, people in Europe had never heard of Garth before one person became zaidi interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.
Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor mwepesi, teleka but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.
But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are zaidi common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable au appreciate. Need wewe Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma au wherever.
Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't kuvuka, msalaba over to other countries just like their regional muziki doesn't kuvuka, msalaba over WW because other countries like Japan don't relate to imba about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country muziki is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.
I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor mwepesi, teleka is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And wewe Belong With Me is a smash.
What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced kwa mixing the country sound to pop songs.
So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.
But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock au rock sometimes. For example, Need wewe Now.
Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country muziki at all despite country muziki video exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I upendo country muziki until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country muziki can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when wewe cut through the stupid artists of country, wewe realize how great it is.
Let’s face it, maarufu muziki hates country music. Plain and simple. Country muziki doesn’t use maarufu muziki like electric guitar, gitaa which country muziki does and only use regular muziki like twang despite country muziki are not regular music. So why US hates country muziki and US only wants other maarufu muziki like pop muziki and Beyonce? Why US does not play country muziki and the only way is country stations like CMT?
What are your thoughts on country muziki struggle in the maarufu muziki industry?
