{"id":15522,"date":"2016-07-27T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2016-07-27T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:23:46","slug":"modern-country-music-a-topical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/modern-country-music-a-topical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Country Music: A Topical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned a long time ago, I have a special set of headphones for lawn mowing that has a radio built in to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, the unit has a stubby little antenna that only pulls in two stations reliably from every corner of the yard: 92.9 and 105.1. Back in the early days of Nogglestead, 92.9 was a country station. As it had the strongest signal, I listened to it captively while mowing my acreage, which takes four or so hours per mowing. Then 92.9 changed formats and became The Beat and switched to a hiphoppish pop. <\/p>\n

So I started listening to 105.1 which has a slightly lesser signal, but it was classicish country, with songs from the 1980s mixed with some more recent stuff.<\/p>\n

But this last year, 105.1 has changed to all bro country music. Earlier this summer, I thought, Man, pop songs can’t be worse than bro country<\/em>, so I switched to 92.9 for a couple of songs. Which were like bro country with less musical artistry, more autotune, and more celebration illegal drug use. And the topic matters were almost the same. So I switched back to 105.1.<\/p>\n

Which lead me to conduct an academic study into the topic matter covered by modern popular country music as I rode in counterclockwise circles (just like NASCAR!). I present the findings below:
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I’m glad it’s coming to the end of the summer. I’m not sure how much more I can take of bro country.<\/p>\n

In one of the very first posts on this here blog, I wrote<\/a> about how music was targeting younger and younger demographics except:<\/p>\n

One genre continues to address these concerns: country music\u2019s sales increased 12% last year. I suspect Big Music doesn\u2019t know why, but probably assumes a nineteen-year-old navel-baring singer could make next year the best yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How prescient that seems now that a decade and almost half have passed, and country music, or at least country music radio, is aimed squarely at the 20-year-old party crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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