Is Beyonce's Texas Hold Em contry music?

Wow, that really sucks, and I hope this isn't a harbinger for banjos coming back into mainstream music. That period that Mumford and sons-tier cute twinkry couldn't be escaped was heck. Optimistically, people might start exploring the genre, but I'm sure it's too white and chuddy for the average Beyonce fan.

Then again, I don't think most mordern country music is country music as its mostly R&B with banjos. Or pop with banjos, or basically any other genre with banjos. The last true country song I heard on country Radio was Merry Go Round by Kasey Musgraves years ago.

I listened to contemporary country radio a lot last year, and got the feeling there was some resurgence of traditional instrumentation at least. Interesting as well, a lot of lyrical references to older songs and artists, (maybe Taytays "Tim McGraw" was the progenitor of this?) or even reworks of them. This song in particular I like a lot; though somewhat poppy, it does have some nice steel guitar work . But then I'd hear some shit that sounds like smashmouth, and ask myself what the frick I'm listening to. It's long been a self-referential genre with Nashville meddling, but being a woman-centric genre nowadays it's fallen pretty far. At least there's still good artists outside the mainstream, and I've been on an older country kick as of late, even bought a tele. Blonde, as God and Leo intended

chill out bro

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• ghostarchive.org

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