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Due to some details of my new job that aren't germain to this entry, I've been going around to a few places where I don't have control over the radio. At a couple places, they keep the radio to Country Music. I'll note that it's not my favored genre of music (and I'm not generally a music guy in the first place) and that's the limit of what I'll say, there.
So, I have to say it here. Country Music has changed.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, when music was still mostly played on either cassette or record, there was still the Satanic Panic about evil messages when Rock&Roll was played backwards. As a result, there was a joke. "What do you get when you play a Country Western record backwards? You get your dog back, your house back, your wife back, your job back."
Country Music focused a great deal on things like small town (usually Southwestern) values and connecting to lower-income experience. That included music that dealt with loss of things like your job and your wife. It wasn't, by any means, limited to that. But, I'm seeing new limits... if nothing else in what gets repeated on the radio.
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So, I have to say it here. Country Music has changed.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, when music was still mostly played on either cassette or record, there was still the Satanic Panic about evil messages when Rock&Roll was played backwards. As a result, there was a joke. "What do you get when you play a Country Western record backwards? You get your dog back, your house back, your wife back, your job back."
Country Music focused a great deal on things like small town (usually Southwestern) values and connecting to lower-income experience. That included music that dealt with loss of things like your job and your wife. It wasn't, by any means, limited to that. But, I'm seeing new limits... if nothing else in what gets repeated on the radio.
( Read more... )
