{"id":3039,"date":"2015-01-29T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2015-01-29T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:18:48","slug":"tailgates-beer-women-and-the-bro-country-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/01\/29\/tailgates-beer-women-and-the-bro-country-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailgates, Beer, Women, and the Bro-Country Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I love it just as much as the next person when there is \u201cnowhere to go, nowhere to be,\u201d and while I found myself in this situation more times than not over the winter break, I never once chose to roll into town and \u201c take another lap around.\u201d These lyrics, from Cole Swindell and Florida Georgia Line respectively, seem to summarize the recent level of song writing that has taken over the country music world. Although many\u00a0country music fans have voiced their negative opinions about this new \u201cbro-country\u201d style, and how originality and creativity has all but slipped away from the genre, do they have any substantial argument for their case? An article that I saw repeatedly posted to my Facebook newsfeed while not having my \u201cbed backed up to the water\u201d over the break might have the answer to this question (Parmalee).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/FGLreal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3090 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/FGLreal-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"FGLreal\" width=\"224\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/FGLreal-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/FGLreal.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>I will be the first to admit that I have been known to drive around on a nice day with the windows down listening to the bro-country anthems that sing of this very thing. And while in this post I voice my negative opinions towards this new style of country, I cannot deny that the tunes being put on the radio recently are catchy and easy to sing along to. However, what I can defend, with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingcountrymusic.com\/\">savingcountrymusic.com<\/a>, is that when these songs come on the radio, I can never tell who they are. Whether it is Florida Georgia Line, Blake Shelton, or Luke Bryan, they are all singing about warm summer days, hitting on women, and back country roads.<\/p>\n<p>The similarities within this new style do not stop with just the words but continue even further with the music that accompanies the lyrics. A DJ known as Sir Mashalot, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingcountrymusic.com\/mashup-illustrates-how-many-country-hits-are-pretty-much-the-same-song\">an accompanying article by savingcountrymusic.com<\/a>, shows the truth behind these comparisons. By combining the top hits of six different artists of today\u2019s bro-country movement, Sir Mashalot was able to show the scary resemblances that exist. You can listen for yourself, but combined together, the six songs flow together almost as well as any other bro-country song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sir Mashalot: Mind-Blowing SIX Song Country Mashup\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FY8SwIvxj8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I have mentioned before, I believe this new style of country music has its appropriate time and place. However, I worry where the future of country music as a whole is headed. What happened to the country music songs that carried with them real life lessons? What happened to the clever lines that the listener can only help but tip their hat and grin to? I fear that classic, meaningful lines like \u201cDaddies don\u2019t love their children every now and then. It\u2019s a love without end, amen\u201d and \u201cto the world, you may just be another girl, but to me, baby, you are the world\u201d are quickly being replaced with butchery of the English language like \u201ckeeping it real like chill like only have a drink or two\u201d and \u201cA little something bumping, thump, thumping on the wheel ride\u201d (Strait, Paisley, Shelton, Florida Georgia Line). I can only hope that creativity and originality can resurface within the country music genre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/Parmalee.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3096 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/Parmalee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Parmalee\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/Parmalee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/01\/Parmalee.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I love it just as much as the next person when there is \u201cnowhere to go, nowhere to be,\u201d and while I found myself in this situation more times than not over the winter break, I never once chose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/01\/29\/tailgates-beer-women-and-the-bro-country-takeover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bro-country","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}