{"id":7028,"date":"2016-02-09T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:21:24","slug":"nashville-brings-reality-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/02\/09\/nashville-brings-reality-to-light\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nashville&#8221; Brings Reality To Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Nashville New ABC Series Official Trailer (Premier 2012 Fall)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXRia44V_bY?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>I always wondered what life would be like as a country music star.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7036\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.27.35-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7036\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7036\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7036\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.27.35-PM-300x242.png\" alt=\"Credits: www.richardcrouse.ca\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.27.35-PM-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.27.35-PM-768x619.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.27.35-PM.png 966w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: www.richardcrouse.ca<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As a little girl who pretended to be like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaniatwain.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\">Shania Twain<\/a>, a ten year-old fifth grader who wanted to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0493093\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Montana<\/a>, and later as a middle school and high school student was a mega <a href=\"http:\/\/taylorswift.com\/about_from_taylor\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> fan, I pondered what the life in the bright lights would be like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">While, the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0493093\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Montana<\/a>\u201d show did not exactly portray the real life of a country music star, (she was in fact partly country music), ABC\u2019s debut of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville<\/a>\u201d in 2012 certainly showed me the more or less reality of country music stardom, \u00a0but the series taught me a something little deeper about what the country music industry is facing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7031\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.12.31-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7031\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7031\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7031\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.12.31-PM-241x300.png\" alt=\"Credits: www.pop-break.com\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.12.31-PM-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.12.31-PM.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: www.pop-break.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The series is centered around the original, experienced Queen of Country \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\/cast\/rayna-jaymes\" target=\"_blank\">Rayna Jaymes<\/a>,\u201d who is portrayed by <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\/cast\/rayna-jaymes\" target=\"_blank\">Connie Britton<\/a>, and the young, rising country-pop starlet \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\/cast\/juliette-barnes\" target=\"_blank\">Juliette Barnes<\/a>\u201d, portrayed by <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\/cast\/juliette-barnes\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Panettiere<\/a>. Britton\u2019s character struggles as an aging artist who is trying to maintain her role in the country music scene, while Panettiere&#8217;s character is trying to overtake all of country music\u2019s listeners with her poppy, upbeat style.<\/p>\n<p>While the series involves love triangles, family issues, deaths, secrets, lies, etc., like any ABC drama would, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\/about-the-show\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville<\/a>\u201d reveals the eternal country music culture war: the battle between old music vs. new music, twang country vs. pop country, home, close knit label head vs. big label heads. Additionally, in depth the series explores the how the various artists, songwriters, managers, and other characters deal with the consequence of fame and finding self-identity in the bright lights.<\/p>\n<p>Besides all those elements to the series, \u201cNashville\u201d has some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC6T5BdQfRoWQ6qlgUip_nbA\" target=\"_blank\">killer country music.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7032\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.14.11-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7032\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7032\" class=\" wp-image-7032\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.14.11-PM-300x212.png\" alt=\"Credits: www.buddytv.com\" width=\"461\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.14.11-PM-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.14.11-PM-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-07-at-11.14.11-PM.png 882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: www.buddytv.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the series, each artist struggles with the eternal country music culture war, and it is shown even in the music. Therefore, using the two main characters \u201cRayna Jaymes\u201d and \u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d Here are a total of four songs. Two songs that are more pop country, modern, and two songs from the old, twang style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRayna Jaymes\u201d Pop country, Modern Song: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/nashvillecast\/thistime.html\" target=\"_blank\">This Time<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Nashville Cast - This Time ( Connie Britton)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-0r_uLGrg0?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>In Nashville, this experienced country music queen has won awards upon awards, and is adored by all. However, as soon as she tries to be competitive in the country music scene, Britton\u2019s character is challenged with producing and singing music that is not her sound\u2026also known as pop country. With up and coming young stars like \u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d it is forces \u201cRayna James\u201d to fight for her voice to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRayna Jaymes\u201d \u00a0Old, Twang style Song: \u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/nashvillecast\/theriversbetweenus.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Rivers between Us<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qrpR7rSTHsY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qrpR7rSTHsY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blessing of being the original queen is that no matter what, your first fans always stick with you, and their daughters, and their futures daughter will too.\u00a0That is the blessing \u201cRayna Jaymes\u201d receives as she is faced with the adversity of maintaining relevancy in the county music scene. Unlike \u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d who showed up to county music as the new hot starlet, \u201cRayna Jaymes\u201d is able to use her history of hard work and current determination to uphold a revenant spot in the spot light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d\u00a0Pop country, Modern Song:\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/haydenpanettiere\/imagirl.html\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m a Girl<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b76wPYPWDBU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b76wPYPWDBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the series, Panettiere\u2019s character\u2019s music grabs the attention of tween and teens. Dressing in tight, sparkly dresses, \u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d goes the extra mile to capture audiences as the young, new sexy starlet. Her modern sound and sassy, headstrong personality is \u201cJuliette Barnes\u2019s\u201d \u201cin\u201d to the country music scene. While her voice does have a southern accent, these two songs certainly display what pop country songs sound like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d Old, Twang style Song: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/nashvillecast\/wearewater.html\" target=\"_blank\">We are Water<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=za_qRsLbhB8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=za_qRsLbhB8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned above, early in the series, Panettiere\u2019s character represents how young females in today\u2019s country music have to use a combination of their femininity and country pop sound to snatch a general audience of tweens and teens, but also within the industry, old, powerful men. However, as the series progresses, \u201cJuliette Barnes\u201d is able to take her poppy vibe to her true country roots. Panettiere\u2019s character is able to slow down her sound, and hopes that her tween and teens fan will be able to appreciate the same \u201cJuliette Barnes,\u201d just with a different or actual country music sound.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you love to listen to the queens of country music like \u201cRayna Jaymes\u201d or the new starlets like \u201cJuliette Barnes,\u201d one can agreed the ABC series \u201cNashville\u201d does an fine job using the characters and music bring light the war country music faces. (After all, the series is on its <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/nashville\/news\" target=\"_blank\">fourth season<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But the question I propose is has the war always been going on? Have we failed to see it just until now? Or has the war begun recently in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered what life would be like as a country music star. As a little girl who pretended to be like Shania Twain, a ten year-old fifth grader who wanted to be Hannah Montana, and later as a middle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/02\/09\/nashville-brings-reality-to-light\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,55,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-3","category-country-pop","category-nashville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028","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\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7065,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}