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Country Music and Guns
« on: July 26, 2018, 04:32:53 PM »
Probably time to stop assuming the country music scene is friendly with the firearms scene. Not that everyone should think the same because of their associations, but this isn't the first time I've heard country music artists talk about how they're "gun guys" but anti-NRA and/or anti-firearms freedoms.

The NRA should stop always focusing on booking country music artists as well when they do the annual meeting, etc. Book artists that don't dis your members from whatever musical genres.

If you're blaming guns for Las Vegas, you're not "a gun guy".

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/26/eric-church-says-nra-is-to-blame-for-las-vegas-festival-mass-shooting.html
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2018, 04:44:43 PM »
*shrug* Depends on the amount of backlash. Country fans have shut down artists in the past when they didn't like someone's politics. Usually the only ones who dare go against what the "mainstream" country music fans consider acceptable are the ones who can get play outside the country music stations.
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2018, 05:26:22 PM »
I honestly had never heard of the guy until I saw the news story. Is some kind of up-and-coming Big New Star or something?

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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2018, 05:32:53 PM »
Who is Eric Church? I've never heard of him.
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2018, 06:11:10 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on July 26, 2018, 05:26:22 PM
I honestly had never heard of the guy until I saw the news story. Is some kind of up-and-coming Big New Star or something?

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He was in like 2011.

He's one of those interchangeable "beer and pickup truck" country/rock bros.
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2018, 08:08:43 PM »
This is the only song I know by him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-dUsh6OT8
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2018, 08:42:13 PM »
Sucks,  I liked this one. 

https://youtu.be/8OZhw-aQTP8

Shame he's a friggin tool.

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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2018, 05:07:28 AM »
Like many of the “new country” singers he’s just a dipshit dressed up in overpriced “western” clothes and singing the same “Friday night getting drunk on a dirt road with a whore in the passenger seat of my jacked up truck” as the rest of them. It’s not country, it’s pop


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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2018, 09:24:55 AM »
Quote from: Boomhauer on July 27, 2018, 05:07:28 AM
Like many of the “new country” singers he’s just a dipshit dressed up in overpriced “western” clothes and singing the same “Friday night getting drunk on a dirt road with a whore in the passenger seat of my jacked up truck” as the rest of them. It’s not country, it’s pop




Country-bro music for the yeti cooler sticker, columbia shirt wearing crowd.
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2018, 09:34:45 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTKR12cUqc
Bo Burnham - Todays Country Songs
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2018, 10:24:23 AM »
Quote from: freakazoid on July 26, 2018, 08:08:43 PM
This is the only song I know by him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-dUsh6OT8

To 1:34.  Standard line-dancing foot-stompin' fare, standard musical progression and modulation, standard story. (Did I miss any standard dawg in the standard pickup?) Standard music video techniques.

Ho-hum.  1:34 and click out.  Thank you !  Next !

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Quote from: Boomhauer on July 27, 2018, 05:07:28 AM
Like many of the “new country” singers he’s just a dipshit dressed up in overpriced “western” clothes and singing the same “Friday night getting drunk on a dirt road with a whore in the passenger seat of my jacked up truck” as the rest of them. It’s not country, it’s pop pap.


I'm sure you'll endorse that correction, Boomhauer.

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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2018, 12:10:01 PM »
Eric Church probably should, and I suspect his producers are telling him to do so today, google "Dixie Chicks".
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2018, 01:15:23 PM »
Quote from: Boomhauer on July 27, 2018, 05:07:28 AM
Like many of the “new country” singers he’s just a dipshit dressed up in overpriced “western” clothes and singing the same “Friday night getting drunk on a dirt road with a whore in the passenger seat of my jacked up truck” as the rest of them. It’s not country, it’s pop




He at least writes his own songs. Shame about this stance though.
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Re: Country Music and Guns
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2018, 08:48:09 AM »
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Re: Country Music and Guns
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