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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by kit:
so - i remain a little confused about what yr problem is...

are you bothered by the existence of crossover music?

are you bothered by the fact that sometimes people write songs and can't clearly define what genre they belong in?

or do you feel that most people's definition of "country" is overly broad?


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Bothered by crossover? No
That's been around for a long time.
Even The Dead did country, along with a lot of others over the years, but they felt it.

What bothers me is the latter two of your questions. People have a hard time discerning what genre to place their song in so they tend to just say country as if it's like a catch all and it's okay. Then you listen to their recording of it and it ain't country at all. Not only is the rythym not country, but the individual singing it ain't even close.

Although pop music infiltrated the country scene through the last decade, as in Shania, the backbone of the rythym remained solid, along with that little twang in the vocals.....a la....the feel.