Is it me 或者 why country 音乐 only appeal US and Canada and regular 音乐 and not 流行的 music? Why country 音乐 worldwide release only appeal pop 音乐 release 由 country artists like Florida Georgia Line pop 音乐 and crossover like Lady Antebellum’s Need 你 Now? That’s all people listening to country 音乐 worldwide does these days. Pop 音乐 released 由 country stars like Leann Rymes pop 音乐 and crossover like The Band Perry’s If I Die Young.

Not only that, 流行的 音乐 does not appeal country 音乐 like Miranda Lambert and 你 have to use other 流行的 音乐 like pop 音乐 to use people listening to 流行的 music.

Worse, 流行的 音乐 like Vevo and general public like 音乐电视 don’t seem to care about country 音乐 like Brad 佩斯利 these days.

It appears that country 音乐 did not survive the 流行的 音乐 curse and 你 have to use regular 音乐 like video game 音乐 to hear country 音乐 like Tim McGraw.

Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country 音乐 comes from being from its origin. 你 have to use mainstream 音乐 like Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 to listen to 流行的 music.

Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 only appeal pop. Her 音乐 does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. 你 have to use computer and albums to hear country 音乐 由 her like Ours. Not only that, country 音乐 don’t care about Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 like Red and 你 have to use Taylor Swift-less country 音乐 to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 only appeal pop like 爱情 Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country 音乐 are not mainstream country. Her country 音乐 are pop music. 你 have to use pop 音乐 to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 only appeal pop and not going 由 different genres like country.

Worse, country 音乐 is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 (and only since the Red era) and before her 你 have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If 你 showed 100 随意 Brits a pic of George Strait, 你 probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.

There are some UK Country 音乐 singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.

The only real markets for Country 音乐 are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).

The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country 音乐 in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country 音乐 in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to 音乐 on the internet don’t care about country 音乐 and they only listen to mainstream 音乐 like rock and regular 音乐 like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country 音乐 is suppose to be 流行的 音乐 because country are 流行的 music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in 欧洲 and 流行的 音乐 quickly prefer mainstream 音乐 as their 流行的 音乐 course like R&B and rap.

It's true that country 音乐 is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 最佳, 返回页首 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an 艾维奇 song 或者 it's Taylor Swift.

I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.

Major US Country acts can come and do a 音乐会 in 伦敦 but those attending will be 粉丝 because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a 演出, gig in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!

The internet makes it easier for international 粉丝 to follow US Country 音乐 Scene such that the above concerts can happen in 伦敦 occasionally but when will Carrie 或者 Miranda 或者 Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country 音乐 radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.

A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is 流行的 here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.

I would like Country 音乐 to be 更多 successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. 唱歌 about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country 音乐 into the mainstream and 你 have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country 音乐 and 流行的 音乐 only appeals country music-less 流行的 音乐 like hip-hop.

So I think it has to do with country 音乐 being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country 音乐 artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a 更多 local industry, so its artists are generally 更多 local.

And I can't at people on a pop 音乐 论坛 (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country 音乐 trash when country 音乐 粉丝 think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop 音乐 like Justin Timberlake over country 音乐 like Kelsey Ballerini.

That’s why country 音乐 only appeals country tastes like CMT and not 流行的 音乐 tastes like Vevo because country 音乐 is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop 粉丝 only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country 音乐 is boring.

Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about 耶稣 and all the other countries where 耶稣 is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to 音乐 with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is 更多 interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to 音乐 only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to 流行的 音乐 don’t seem to care about country 音乐 like Hunter Hayes 或者 good pop 音乐 like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.

But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get 更多 criticism. But hip hop is 更多 global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.

Casual listener perceives country 音乐 as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country 音乐 are not mainstream music. Mainstream 音乐 is country music-less 流行的 音乐 like rock and R&B.

I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years 以前 during a speak activity about 音乐 in my English class, I 说 that country is very 流行的 in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time 以前 and I really 爱情 Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves 或者 Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because 音乐 at least 由 those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.

As I 说 I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where 你 ride on your horse 或者 something.

The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their 安全 zone (the US).

AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like 日本 and 星, 星级 Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like 欧洲 and America repeats like America 电影院 are 更多 流行的 than America like country 音乐 because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?

Well there is a person from Central 欧洲 and honestly, people in 欧洲 had never heard of Garth before one person became 更多 interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.

Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.

But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are 更多 common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable 或者 appreciate. Need 你 Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma 或者 wherever.

Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't 交叉, 十字架 over to other countries just like their regional 音乐 doesn't 交叉, 十字架 over WW because other countries like 日本 don't relate to 唱歌 about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country 音乐 is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.

I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor 迅速, 斯威夫特 is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And 你 Belong With Me is a smash.

What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced 由 mixing the country sound to pop songs.

So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.

But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock 或者 rock sometimes. For example, Need 你 Now.

Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country 音乐 at all despite country 音乐 视频 exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I 爱情 country 音乐 until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country 音乐 can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when 你 cut through the stupid artists of country, 你 realize how great it is.

Let’s face it, 流行的 音乐 hates country music. Plain and simple. Country 音乐 doesn’t use 流行的 音乐 like electric 吉他 which country 音乐 does and only use regular 音乐 like twang despite country 音乐 are not regular music. So why US hates country 音乐 and US only wants other 流行的 音乐 like pop 音乐 and Beyonce? Why US does not play country 音乐 and the only way is country stations like CMT?

What are your thoughts on country 音乐 struggle in the 流行的 音乐 industry?