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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 441487" data-attributes="member: 35">That&#039;s a great point.&nbsp; I never understood the dwindling female presence or the dumbed down, hip hop and pop infused junk they&#039;ve pushed over the last 20 years.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad to see that&#039;s starting to change.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ashley McBryde is another female artist to come along in recent years and is a welcome addition.&nbsp; Social media has its downside, but a positive is that its easier for artists to circumvent the record executives.&nbsp; Zach Top recently said his smash hit &quot;I Never Lie&quot; was turned down by record executives for being &quot;too traditional.&quot;&nbsp; Apparently, they can&#039;t read the room because there&#039;s a huge demographic who have been clamoring for just that.&nbsp; In their &quot;infinite wisdom,&quot; they said &quot;You hear what&#039;s having hits today?&nbsp; This ain&#039;t it.&quot;&nbsp; Of course, they manufacture &quot;what&#039;s having hits&quot; by pushing juvenile music by the likes of Luke Bryan that appeals to the lowest common denominator.As for Darius Rucker, he probably was able to make it as a black artist in country music because he already had star power from his stint in Hootie and the Blowfish.&nbsp; Had he been some young, random newcomer, there&#039;s a good chance he wouldn&#039;t have made it at all.&nbsp; What I personally like about Rucker is that crossing over into country wasn&#039;t just a vanity project for him.&nbsp; It&#039;s clear he loves the genre and he has the talent to boot.&nbsp; It didn&#039;t feel like a cynical ploy to me, unlike labeling Beyonce and Shaboozey&#039;s music &quot;country.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 441487, member: 35"] That's a great point. I never understood the dwindling female presence or the dumbed down, hip hop and pop infused junk they've pushed over the last 20 years. I'm glad to see that's starting to change. Ashley McBryde is another female artist to come along in recent years and is a welcome addition. Social media has its downside, but a positive is that its easier for artists to circumvent the record executives. Zach Top recently said his smash hit "I Never Lie" was turned down by record executives for being "too traditional." Apparently, they can't read the room because there's a huge demographic who have been clamoring for just that. In their "infinite wisdom," they said "You hear what's having hits today? This ain't it." Of course, they manufacture "what's having hits" by pushing juvenile music by the likes of Luke Bryan that appeals to the lowest common denominator. As for Darius Rucker, he probably was able to make it as a black artist in country music because he already had star power from his stint in Hootie and the Blowfish. Had he been some young, random newcomer, there's a good chance he wouldn't have made it at all. What I personally like about Rucker is that crossing over into country wasn't just a vanity project for him. It's clear he loves the genre and he has the talent to boot. It didn't feel like a cynical ploy to me, unlike labeling Beyonce and Shaboozey's music "country." [/QUOTE]

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