One of the few genres of music I utterly avoid is country music (not to be confused with actual cowboy music, or with roots music, both of which are actuall quite good).
I feel the same way. The stuff that led to country is great; country itself is generally execrable. But my favorite band (Hem) is often categorized as "countrypolitan," so...
They had a TV turned to CMT, Country Music Television, and I watched it for about an hour. It was fascinatingly bad. It made me want to go out into the world and start a non-profit Speech Therapy For Country Singers foundation.
I hate, hate, hate CMT. And GAC, the other country music channel. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I don't think most of those singers talk that way in real life; they twang it up for the songs. Usually they sound like me when I'm at home. (Or what I apparently sound like, according to everyone who's ever heard me on the phone with my parents.)
And banjos? If you ask me, they aren't half as bad as steel guitars!
Is a steel guitar the instrument that makes the ubiquitous "wow-wow-wow" sound (kind of like someone playing a saw) in the background which immediately screams, "I AM A COUNTRY SONG!!!"? I thought that was just a run-of-the-mill electric guitar that someone was doing unspeakable things to, but I could be wrong. I know I've heard steel guitars and pedal steels that I've liked before, though, but rarely, very, very rarely have I heard a banjo I could stand.
Mostly it's the twangy voice, though. Like you said, they all need speech therapy for when they sing.
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Date: 2006-12-10 10:29 pm (UTC)I feel the same way. The stuff that led to country is great; country itself is generally execrable. But my favorite band (Hem) is often categorized as "countrypolitan," so...
They had a TV turned to CMT, Country Music Television, and I watched it for about an hour. It was fascinatingly bad. It made me want to go out into the world and start a non-profit Speech Therapy For Country Singers foundation.
I hate, hate, hate CMT. And GAC, the other country music channel. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I don't think most of those singers talk that way in real life; they twang it up for the songs. Usually they sound like me when I'm at home. (Or what I apparently sound like, according to everyone who's ever heard me on the phone with my parents.)
And banjos? If you ask me, they aren't half as bad as steel guitars!
Is a steel guitar the instrument that makes the ubiquitous "wow-wow-wow" sound (kind of like someone playing a saw) in the background which immediately screams, "I AM A COUNTRY SONG!!!"? I thought that was just a run-of-the-mill electric guitar that someone was doing unspeakable things to, but I could be wrong. I know I've heard steel guitars and pedal steels that I've liked before, though, but rarely, very, very rarely have I heard a banjo I could stand.
Mostly it's the twangy voice, though. Like you said, they all need speech therapy for when they sing.