Comments on: How Country Music Soured on the War http://takecountryback.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/how-country-music-soured-on-the-war/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:13:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Baron Lane http://takecountryback.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/how-country-music-soured-on-the-war/#comment-1077 Baron Lane Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:56:50 +0000 http://takecountryback.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/how-country-music-soured-on-the-war/#comment-1077 Like everything else manufactured in Music City, the faux patriotism from the last decade has little to do with the tradition of country music. Country music celibrates the working person. The poor and disadvantaged. These are the people most likey to be shipped off to the rich man's war. To celibrate war outright, without question, is to sing the song of the rich and the powerful..that ain't country, that's propagannda. Artists that sing platitudes about the red, white and blue are putting the same introspection and intelligence they put toward songs about love and life, none. And that's assuming they wrote the words they are trying in earnest to convince the audience they belive in, which more time than not, they didn't. Like everything else manufactured in Music City, the faux patriotism from the last decade has little to do with the tradition of country music.

Country music celibrates the working person. The poor and disadvantaged. These are the people most likey to be shipped off to the rich man’s war. To celibrate war outright, without question, is to sing the song of the rich and the powerful..that ain’t country, that’s propagannda.

Artists that sing platitudes about the red, white and blue are putting the same introspection and intelligence they put toward songs about love and life, none. And that’s assuming they wrote the words they are trying in earnest to convince the audience they belive in, which more time than not, they didn’t.

]]> By: Johnny Rodriguez Arrested And Charged With Three Felonies -- The 9513 http://takecountryback.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/how-country-music-soured-on-the-war/#comment-1070 Johnny Rodriguez Arrested And Charged With Three Felonies -- The 9513 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:52:02 +0000 http://takecountryback.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/how-country-music-soured-on-the-war/#comment-1070 [...] her article on how country music went from chest-thumping to introspection when it comes to the war, Michelle Cottle writes “country music may never turn its back on [...] [...] her article on how country music went from chest-thumping to introspection when it comes to the war, Michelle Cottle writes “country music may never turn its back on [...]

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