January 8, 201511 yr One would think a copyright infringement action is on the horizon. But in the immortal words of Alan Jackson - who's cheatin' who?
January 8, 201511 yr That was awful. I wasn't really paying attention to the mashup or anything, but I only made it through about 45 seconds of that.
January 8, 201511 yr Somebody is buying this junk, otherwise why spew it out? Couldn't say... of course I feel the same way about most of what's on television and the average modern American novel and I've reached the conclusion that none of them have to care what I think anyway.
January 8, 201511 yr Author Somebody is buying this junk, otherwise why spew it out? The autotuned song version of that "Hide 'Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife" interview was put on iTunes and sold over a million copies. The RIAA certified it as a platinum single, if you can believe that. People are dumb.
January 8, 201511 yr Aside from Country I think that you could also do this mash up kinda thing to lots of hip hop, as well as mass-produced teeny pop girl tunes. You could probably throw ridiculous growling Death Metal into the mix too. Not much variation going on with any of those genres. Give me originality of give me death, or for God's sake please just at least TURN IT OFF!!!
January 9, 201511 yr The Song Machine - The New Yorker This article from a few years ago explains a lot of how pop music gets made, and I'm sure it's even more contrived on the pop country charts (I'm imagining they have quotas for the lyrics to contain a certain number of references to trucks, tractors, dirt roads, girls, and beer). What stood out to me is that a song would be produced (i.e. someone would come up with the beat and "music" of it), then it would be distributed to lyricists who would basically lay a series of hooks over it, then it would be shopped to potential artists. Thus, it's fairly easy for a single song to end up with different lyrics in the hands of different artists. The article references that these two songs were produced the same, they just had a few tweaks, different lyrics, and different artists. I imagine that's exactly what's going on in the OP.
January 9, 201511 yr With everyone stealing their music I am not surprised they are taking some shortcuts.
January 9, 201511 yr One would think a copyright infringement action is on the horizon. But in the immortal words of Alan Jackson - who's cheatin' who? Or the immortal words of Charly McClain, who did the original version.
January 9, 201511 yr Aside from Country I think that you could also do this mash up kinda thing to lots of hip hop, as well as mass-produced teeny pop girl tunes. You could probably throw ridiculous growling Death Metal into the mix too. Not much variation going on with any of those genres. Give me originality of give me death, or for God's sake please just at least TURN IT OFF!!! Dead On!!!
January 9, 201511 yr Perfect example of why Nashville — where 5 or 6 people write 95 percent of the hit songs — sucks. This reminds me a lot of the one that circulated last year about this time about "Why country sucked in 2013." I'll never understand the lowest common denominator.
January 9, 201511 yr Perfect example of why Nashville — where 5 or 6 people write 95 percent of the hit songs — sucks. This reminds me a lot of the one that circulated last year about this time about "Why country sucked in 2013." I'll never understand the lowest common denominator. Or as Hank III calls it...Trashville.
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