https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pMh-UN9EAtw<\/p>\n
We all have accepted the fact that Taylor Swift has flown away from the land of country music, and those few fans that admired her country tunes are still somewhat offended by this realization. Pop is trendy. Pop is in-the-moment flare. Pop is, well, overplayed and nothing special. I lose almost all respect for country artist that desert their home for the five seconds of fame in Pop Land (yes, I did just make up a new continent). The country music genre is home to meaningful, insightful, legendary stories in the form of music that lives on for decades after. Who has ever said the same of Pop music? Oh that\u2019s right, no one. This leads me to my topic of frustration today: The Band Perry\u2019s treacherous venture into the land of Pop-Rock music.<\/p>\n
The trio\u2019s new single, released in mid-August, title \u201cLive Forever,\u201d is anything but country. Let me tell you, the first time I heard this song was on a Pop station on my XM radio last week. I paused on the station I normally would\u2019ve immediately skipped when I saw the name of a band I admired. Confused as to why a Pop station would play music from a country trio, I quickly became horrified. I stared in disbelief at the screen displaying the album cover and the song title. There is no way this is the same band that plays so many of my favorite tunes, <\/em>I thought to myself as the upbeat, Disney-theme-sounding chorus played through my speakers. I don\u2019t get it! I thought bands weren\u2019t allowed to copy each other\u2019s names\u2026 and why would someone else want to call their band \u201cThe Band Perry\u201d as well?<\/em> I was trying to think up any alternative other than the truth, which was that the song playing through my speakers was, sadly, The Band Perry.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not that I despise the song itself. It\u2019s catchy and decently written by the trio. Take a listen yourself in the music video I posted up top. The video, on a quick side note, is also very creative and brings back nostalgia for summer freedoms and being with friends, just as many country songs do. The thing that really gets my hair in a knot is the fact that the band decided to turn to the Pop-rock genre for this single. The song isn\u2019t played on country stations. Why? Because it\u2019s not country. It\u2019s played on Pop stations. Popular country music blog,\u00a0Taste of Country<\/a>,\u00a0gave the song positive reviews with praise for its “big,\u201d “vivid” sound. I just can\u2019t stand the fact that great, successful country bands think they need to drift over to the Poppy side of music to stay popular. Are we country fans not good enough? It\u2019s almost like a stab in the back. We like these bands because they play music we like in a genre we love, not because they belittle themselves to the pop-culture and make crappy, not-at-all original tunes. I don\u2019t see the overwhelming need for The Band Perry to join the Pop side of things. Stick to country music please, your fans love you for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pMh-UN9EAtw We all have accepted the fact that Taylor Swift has flown away from the land of country music, and those few fans that admired her country tunes are still somewhat offended by this realization. Pop is trendy. Pop is … Continue reading