Showing posts with label Chase Matthew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chase Matthew. Show all posts
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2025 Country Music Vocabulary
Gatekeeping: Making artists or fans of those artists feel bad for claiming the genre but not adhering to any of the genre’s basic elements
Evolution: Copying what was popular in hip-hop or pop music 1-5 years ago
Songwriting: Rearranging words from previous hits over a slightly different composition
Songwriter: Producer, actual writer, guy who bought a beat online, 13 dudes in a room trying to think of the most current slang term to use, DJ, the singer (who only added 2 words), etc.
Country music: Has no definition. If the radio/bookers/agent/record label/media lets you call whatever crap it is you’re performing country, do so
Americana: Country music
Hipster country: Americana with fashion sense and/or social messages
Country cosplay: Artist was not born in the rural south or Texas (OR) has not been a country artist since the moment they popped out of the womb
Sellout: Artist who selfishly got sober or clean
Hick lib: Country or Americana singer who is not MAGA
Live Nation: Entertainment/concert company requiring half a month’s income and your firstborn child to afford a ticket to one (1) of their events
Traditional country: (sounds like the 90s)
TikTok country: Offensive term demeaning the hard work of curly haired young dudes who developed a following due to their attractive appearance and ability to autotune themselves singing about being sad and problematic
Steel guitars & fiddles: Americana instruments
Bruh-Country: Music by and of the tatted, plain tee and chain wearing, mumble-rap-loving young American white dude, fr fr.
TikTok Americana: Offensive term demeaning the hard work of not-as-attractive dudes standing in a field singing about coal in a style not dissimilar to Tyler Childers or Zach Bryan
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The Current Poop of Mainstream Country Radio: September '25
A poop emoji is negative, a strike thru is positive, an asterisk denotes a song where the good attributes and the bad are dead even. An overall score and brief summary are below the chart.
The current Poop Rating of the Mediabase Top 20 is (-17) overall which is a 6 point drop from our last edition in June. Nice to see a token woman in there! The best song on the charts is Parker McCollum’s “What Kinda Man.” The worst is easily Chase Matthew’s “Darlin’.” If it weren’t the worst, Parmalee’s “Cowgirl” would easily be the bottom of the barrel. I could barely tolerate listening through the chorus of either one. Let’s hope for better next time!
*yes, my rating of the Luke/Bailey collab dropped a lot since June
May 2, 2025
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