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You can call it what you want but it is not what I consider Country music.

I am not saying the music isn't good or it isn't Done in Tennessee.
But it is something new. Call it Country Pop call it Pop country call it whatever you want but it ain't country music. I grew up with country music. This ain't it.
George Jones is Country Music...Tammy Wynette is country music. Merle Haggard, Hank Williams.

Now everyone is gonna say they were not. You might be right. But they were a heck of a lot closer than what we are getting today.
The Music did change some in the 50's. they even started using drums. And Bass guitars.
Heck it changed in the 20's when they brought Hawaiian Steel in.

I just wish they would give it a new Genre of it's own and quit calling it country.What they have done is stolen the genre. Country music is now Americana, or traditional.
Take a traditional country song into a publisher in Nashville and see what they say.

Maybelle Carter probably turned over in her grave when she heard Save a horse ride a cowboy.
That doesn't make it bad it just ain't Country.

And yes Taylor Swift is from Pennsylvania. But I don't think that matters. You don't have to be from the south to do country music...but it helps.

I think todays "COUNTRY" music is great. It has brought new life into the music. The only problem I have is with the way it is labeled.
Heck am trying to write it myself. And believe me..it is NOT easy.
Today's Country Music has some subtleties in it that if you don't pay attention you will never know they are there.