I found myself watching the Country Music Awards the other night . . . I may not be the biggest country music fan, but I can appreciate the genre and have a handful of country artists on my iPod. I'm not ready to move to a farm, drink with the good ol' boys or profess to be a redneck woman, but I do feel qualified to make the following two remarks:
1. One thing that is essentially unique to country music is that you have to be a real musician to make it. You have to be able to actually sing to be successful in country music, and most artists play instruments and write their own songs. There isn't any autotune or stage pyrotechnics or barely-there outfits to hide a lack of musicianship. Whether or not you enjoy songs about a honkey-tonk or mama or cowboys, you can at least appreciate the voice singin' it to you.
2. Kid Rock. Gross. Since when is he officially country? Does he just think we can all magically forget about "BahWitDaBah"? (And by the way, if you click that link you can download "Bahwitdabah" straight to your cell phone!!) He is ridiculous and looks crazy . . . and I'm sorry, but if your first release is not even a real word, just a bunch of crazy syllables put together, then you've already lost me. There is no coming back from that, no matter how long you grow your greasy hair or how long you refuse to shave your sick-y facial hair. You can't fool me into taking you seriously as a musician . . . your name is still Kid Rock. Kid. Rock.
Do I sound harsh? May I remind you of this:
7 comments:
I don't like country that much either, but I totally agree with your two points!
But the question is: how was Gwyneth Paltrow?
You seriously make me laugh SO hard! I love it! Maybe it is my favorite when you post. Love you!
I love reading your rants. Classic Sarah :)
My thoughts exactly! Why couldn't we have just watched it together? huh?
Here's what I love about this post. You are obviously not addicted to blogging and don't care to share EVERY thought that comes into your head (I thank you for that). So just HOW MUCH this bothers you that you HAD to post about it...seriously so funny!
Sarah, my first "Country Music Memories" are in your Dad's white car, can't remember what it was, on the way to basketball practice in maybe, um, 6th grade? He loved his country music. I beleive we would ask him over and over to change it and he never would... he told us we didn't know what we were missing. haha.
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