{"id":3372,"date":"2015-02-17T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:38:20","slug":"metro-politan-the-newest-country-subgenre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/02\/17\/metro-politan-the-newest-country-subgenre\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Country Music&#8217;s Newest Subgenre: &#8220;Metro-Politan&#8221; Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Sam Hunt - Leave The Night On (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BuMiMBjcvWU?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>Over at Saving Country Music, Trigger has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingcountrymusic.com\/metro-politan-country-musics-new-cancer\">a new post condemning<\/a> the trend in adding dance beats to country music. Citing the success of Sam Hunt&#8217;s <em>Montevallo<\/em>, which is currently holding the #1 position on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-albums\">Billboard&#8217;s Country Albums chart<\/a>, he claims that a new subgenre of country music is sprouting its &#8220;unfortunate tentacles.&#8221; He calls this emerging subgenre &#8220;Metro-Politan Country&#8221; and predicts that it will become more prevalent in the next couple of years before dying the way that Bro Country seems to be dying now.<\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;ve been talking so much about country&#8217;s subgenres and the troubles with analyzing them <em>while they&#8217;re popular<\/em>, I thought y&#8217;all might enjoy taking a look at this new article. Also, <strong>I&#8217;ll be happy to give you class credit if you decide to leave Trigger a comment<\/strong>. You might respond directly to his post or to any of the other comments that have already been written. Just leave me a comment here letting me know that you&#8217;ve done this.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Sam Hunt, you should check out <a title=\"Sam Hunt\u2019s Montevallo\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2014\/10\/31\/sam-hunts-montevallo\/\">a review of the <em>Montevallo <\/em>album<\/a> that one of my students wrote last semester.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S2LQc-R6Uxw<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I thought I would point out that Hunt&#8217;s not the first person to integrate dance beats into country music. The technique extends at least as far back as the Countrypolitan moment of the 70s\/80s, including Dolly Parton&#8217;s take on &#8220;House of the Rising Sun&#8221; (1980) and &#8220;Potential New Boyfriend&#8221; (1983).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Saving Country Music, Trigger has written a new post condemning the trend in adding dance beats to country music. Citing the success of Sam Hunt&#8217;s Montevallo, which is currently holding the #1 position on Billboard&#8217;s Country Albums chart, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/02\/17\/metro-politan-the-newest-country-subgenre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,58,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bro-country","category-countrypolitan","category-dancing-2","category-song-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}