Farce the Music

Jul 7, 2009

Relative Size Charts: 6-8

In honor of FTM's 1st Annifarcery Celebration, here's a triple helping of Relative Size Charts. Tomorrow night's post is the first of TWO Country Days this week!!! And there are 5 more days to enter the free music contest. It's easy!

Jul 6, 2009

31 Country Music Themes: 1-3

This is the first post of a new Farce the Music series entitled "An Illustrated Guide to the 31 Most Commonly Used Thematical Elements in Contemporary Country Music Songs" (or "31 Country Music Themes" for short). This is by no means an all-inclusive documentation of all the themes used in modern commercial country music... only 99.85% of it. I will post themes two to four at a time, usually once a week, until the list is complete. I hope you enjoy, and I hope your future listening enjoyment is ruined because you try to think of the exact corresponding theme and illustration every time you hear a song on country radio! Oh, and don't forget to enter the free music contest!

Jul 5, 2009

Country Cred-o-meter

Welcome to the first edition of the Country Cred-o-Meter. It is obviously very similar to the Badass-o-Meter, except that instead of criminal and masculine exploits, this measurement method takes certain points of "country-ness" into account. Keep in mind that this is not to determine which singers/artists are the "most country" musically, though that is a factor in their placement on the chart. This is all about cred... can we believe what the singer is singing? Does he or she even deserve that country label? Here's FTM's opinion...