Alan Jackson Says There’s “No Country Stuff Left”
Ahead of his performance at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Baltimore, Alan Jackson had some discouraging words about the current state of country music in an interview with the Baltimore Sun. The Grand Ole Opry member, winner of 2 Grammys, 16 CMA’s, and performer of 35 #1 hits said:
Right now, it seems like it’s gone. It’s not that I’m against all that’s out there. There’s some good music, good songwriting and good artists out there, but there’s really no country stuff left. It’s always been that constant pop-country battle. I don’t think it’s ever going to change. What makes me sad today is that I think the real country, real roots-y traditional stuff, may be gone. I don’t know if it’ll ever be back on mainstream radio. You can’t get it played anymore.
Jackson’s last album, 2012’s Thirty Miles West sold moderately well, but did not produce the type of radio hits Jackson enjoyed earlier in his career. Jackson has long been regarded as residing on the traditionalist side of the mainstream dial, and on many occasions has stood up for older artists and the preservation of the roots of country music, most famously on the 1999 CMA Awards when he stopped his own song “Pop A Top” and started singing George Jones’s “Choices” after the CMA refused to let George sing the song in full.
Alan Jackson may be done with trying to court country radio though, and may be embracing his role as an elder of country music. His next album set to be released on September 24th is simply called The Bluegrass Album and features a no frills traditional bluegrass approach. “I wanted to pay my respects to it because I think it’s a great genre and it’s real close to country,” Jackson told The Baltimore Sun. “Bluegrass is one of the last American music [genres] that’s stayed somewhat close to its roots.”
Last week Jackson played to a packed Station Inn in Nashville in celebration of his upcoming bluegrass album.
September 5, 2013 @ 6:55 pm
I hope Alan leaves behind any trying-to-stay-relevant type material from here on out; I hope he just creates real country music, like he’s done so well before. If there is a bright side, its that.
But I suspect he’s probably a lot more upset about the genre’s popular face than his quote would suggest.
September 5, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
As much as I would love someone like Alan Jackson to come out with some inflammatory statement against pop country where he spews fire and brimstone, you have to give him credit for being classy and respectful in the way he said this. He got his point across, stated what was important, and did it in a respectful manner. There’s something to be said for that.
…but we can all hypothesize just how angry Alan Jackson is about all of this behind closed doors. 😉
September 7, 2013 @ 7:07 am
Agreed. Also, if he made the super-negative statement, he’d seem bitter that his last album wasn’t successful.
If he was at the top of the charts, he could be more negative
September 15, 2013 @ 1:07 pm
I have all of Alan’s albums and will add his new one to my collection. I love him and do not care what others think. And he is right about country music. Traditional is not totally gone, as long as we still have the like of Brad Paisley!
September 5, 2013 @ 7:11 pm
“He just wishes the radio would balance things out with more traditional-sounding artists, too.”
Amen to that. I cringe when I hear young kids say they love country music and they mean only the stuff they hear on the pop/country stations. Sad that they don’t get to hear a mix of the old (more traditional) and new on the radio.
Alan Jackson is one of a handful of singers that I have driven a lot of miles to hear and will do again.
September 5, 2013 @ 7:31 pm
I’m still trying to forgive him for that “Good Time” song…
Just listened to the one iTunes sample out for The Bluegrass Song..
Sounds more like banjo-heavy country as opposed to straight forward bluegrass, but it sounds good nonetheless. That’s just one clip of one song, too.
September 6, 2013 @ 8:58 am
Yuck . That tune calls to mind the early 90’s when every hack with a flat top Martin was in a rush to write a line dancing song . I forgave Alan too though .
September 5, 2013 @ 7:52 pm
I happened to hear “Too Much of a Good Thing” in passing the other night and I couldn’t believe how traditional it sounded. It’s not a song I ever thought or cared about, but it blew me away. There’s NO WAY something like that would chart today, and it’s not particularly old…2004.
September 5, 2013 @ 8:40 pm
Good words, I have more respect for him more and more.
May 1, 2017 @ 9:09 am
Nice try, but Alan Jackson is what destroyed country music. He’s as country as Soulja Boy. It was Alan Jackson who killed country music by dumbing it down (i.e., that stupid 9/11-exploiting song where he couldn’t tell the difference between Iraq and Iran) and living up to stereotypes (i.e., “It’s Alright to Be a Redneck”, “Where I Come From”, “Country Boy”). Also, not to mention that “Chattahoochee” is littered with bro-country buzzwords such as moonlight, girls, and trucks. So Alan Jackson basically invented bro-country. Additionally, considering Alan Jackson killed country, “Murder on Music Row” is basically the country version of Key and Peele’s video Rap Album Confessions. And not to mention he covered Wiz Khalifa’s “We Dem Boyz” and Akon’s “Don’t Matter” at his concerts. This guy is a danger to real country music, and arguably the biggest disgrace to country music in its entire history. Trust me, one day it will be as clear as day that Alan Jackson is truly the Nickelback of country music; it will be his fate to go down as the next Nickelback, a laughing stock. He’s nothing but a corporate puppet/sellout, and trust me, he will not be remembered. Alan’s “music” is nothing but corporate manufactured drivel, recorded and released solely for the purpose of desecrating country music and its rich history. If Alan Jackson is country, then Pizza is Japanese food. Enough said.
#AlanJacksonKilledCountry
June 19, 2019 @ 7:13 am
Cora, or who ever the hell you are, you are out of your damn mind! Alan Jackson has single handed for the last 25 years to save traditional country! Alan and George Strait after their gone there will be no more country music. If you cant tell the difference between real old school traditional country and Montgomery Gentry you should not say anything at all. God love Alan Jackson and the music he has created because after he is gone , so is country music!!
September 5, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
Taste of country posted the same thing on their Facebook page. It’s funny because there were 1600 comments and a good 90% or more of them were how people agree with what he said. They all said they miss real country music on the radio. It just shows how willing country fans would be of a change.
September 5, 2013 @ 11:11 pm
Alan Jackson, while not one of my personal favorites, has always made some of the most genuinely likable music to ever grace the radio. It’s a shame that he hasn’t been able to maintain the momentum in his career to the degree of, say, George Strait, but at least he hasn’t compromised his artistic ambition, either. I have a lot of good memories of his now-classic early 90’s material.
September 6, 2013 @ 4:05 pm
I think the reason George Strait has been able to sustain his mainstream popularity is because he is, to a certain extent, willing to sacrifice his artistic integrity for popularity. His latest hit, for example, wasn’t a horrible song, but to me it seemed like an obvious play for radio attention. Alan, on the other hand, is playing the kind of music he wants regardless of whether its popular.
September 7, 2013 @ 10:16 pm
While I can’t argue that George hasn’t dulled his approach in order to get airplay, at least his music is still country. In fact, regardless of certain pop elements that he injects into his songs, Strait’s music almost seems to exist in a different UNIVERSE when compared with his contemporaries on country radio.
September 10, 2013 @ 10:53 am
I used to be a rabid George Strait fan. But over the last 10 plus years his music has become to mainstreamish..I really disliked/hated his last song “Give It All We Got Tonight” In fact I dislike his last cd “Love Is Everything”
September 15, 2013 @ 1:11 pm
I have a
L of George’s albums. Saw him in concert three times and he was great. Saw Alan in concert too. Will go to more if I get the chance. These two are my favorites!
September 5, 2013 @ 11:18 pm
I remember how irate I was and nearly ready to write him off a sell-out when he released the atrocious “Country Boy” as a single in 2008.
I’m glad I restrained myself. “Country Boy” still is and will forever be an unnecessary dark stain on his discography considering it will quite likely the last #1 single of his career. But “Thirty Miles West” epitomizes why I respect and admire his music so much in the first place, and “So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore” among the best singles to dent the Top Thirty of the chart in the last five years.
September 7, 2013 @ 6:58 am
What was wrong with country boy? The lyrics were pretty cheesy and kind of laundry-list, but it was certainly a country song.
Jackson can be hit or miss, and usually his misses are due to cheesy lyrics, but he always sounds like genuine country.
I didn’t like the song that much, but it didn’t seem like a radical departure.
September 7, 2013 @ 11:52 am
“Country Boy” followed the “country” laundry list song formula to a tee, when Jackson had repeatedly demonstrated beforehand he can maintain commercial relevance without taking that lower road.
Lyrically, the track goes downhill right from its onset: where he sings “Excuse me ma’am, I saw you walk in. I turned around, I’m not a stalker…” WHO TALKS LIKE THAT? It’s an immediate yellow flag.
Then you have the dime-a-dozen chorus, where he boasts about being a country boy because……….wait for it…………he has a four-wheel drive! And he can get anyone anywhere one needs to go because………….you know…………he’s a country boy. What, is Jackson some rural taxi driver?
Next, we reach the second verse, where Jackson and his co-writers slip in sexual innuendos so to, you know, “keep up with the times”. I’m sure many on the surface will say “Hey, it’s just a pleasant, innocuous little driving song!” But c’mon, we know what he means when he says “Buckle up, I’ll take you through the five speeds” or “Wind it up, or I can slow it way down, in the woods or right uptown.” Why else would he bother mentioning how good she looked sitting in the shotgun seat?
Finally, an obsession with luxuries toward the end of the record underscores how this can’t help but sound more like a truck commercial put to a groove than anything remotely resembling art. “Bucket seats, soft as baby’s new butt.
Lockin’ hubs, that’ll take you through a deep rut.” Really?!!!
“Country Boy” sucked because 1) Jackson had repeatedly demonstrated prior to its release that he is capable of sending far superior material lyrically to the top of the charts, 2) the blatant pandering to shifting radio demographics with the materialism and precursors to the “frat boy country” trend we are currently in the eye of the hurricane of, and 3) even musically it wasn’t very catchy in the first place.
Even the music video was painfully mediocre and forced. Guess who you see alluded to within it? Yep……….a drunk George Jones riding a tractor. Who could see that coming? Still………….at least they’re not rapping! -__-
September 15, 2013 @ 1:13 pm
You are a moron and not an Alan fan. I bet you like Jason Aldean!
September 15, 2013 @ 2:03 pm
I’ll take Alan Jackson over Jason Aldean in a nanosecond any day.
And Alan Jackson has a mostly compelling back catalog. I was also quick to note earlier that his most recent studio album “Thirty Miles West” is also among his finest releases in my opinion.
I’m just simply honest about calling out ANY recording artist or entertainer on both their highs and lows. Unlike the Taste of Country crowd, I exercise my opinion willingly! 😉
September 6, 2013 @ 3:05 am
It will take more then Just one or two artiest (Tom Petty, Alan Jackson) complaining about the state of country radio to change things, Instead of loading your mp3 player of your favorite artiest and only listening to it. call you local radio station and request what you want to hear make them change if they get 100 calls a day requesting Rascal Flats and only one call a day for Johnny Cash then it no wonder why you never here more traditional music on the radio. lucky for me i live near a independent radio station that plays Blues,Bluegrass,Roots,Americana,Rockabilly,Red Dirt, and plats local artiest 98.3 the whip http://www.wwhp.com/
September 6, 2013 @ 8:12 am
I did. They blocked my number after a week of it. Bastards.
September 12, 2013 @ 10:21 pm
You’re funny.
September 6, 2013 @ 8:26 am
I’m listening to this at work today – awesome so far. Thanks for the recommendation.
September 6, 2013 @ 10:01 am
Much of radio programming these days is dictated from on high, with very few decisions made by local DJ’s, or influence by requests. Nonetheless, it doesn’t hurt to try, especially if your local radio station is not owned by Clear Channel.
September 6, 2013 @ 11:02 am
100% True. Having worked in radio, I can tell you that you are not going to get a request played in the morning or evening drive times. Those slots are dictated by the coin counters. If you want to get “classic” country played, you should concentrate your efforts on the 9:00 pm – 1:00 am slots, and move away from the corporate dial down into the 88-92 range. The college and small town stations are far more likely to stretch their playlists to include listener feedback.
September 6, 2013 @ 11:16 am
Trigger i will say your right about it not working 99% of the time but grass roots has to start some were. sites like yours helps people find better choices then what clear channel tells us what to listen to but unless we push radio to play better artiest or a better mix of country styles it wont change. I only know about my experience with my local station but there has been a push of more red dirt music in the last couple of years cause people call and requesting it stared when the local dj started playing Kevin Fowler and it branched out from there. Its not perfect they still play 95% country pop crap but the other 5% is a push in the right way
September 6, 2013 @ 4:59 am
The only country station I hear that is still playing a mix of modern traditional, classic traditional, country-pop, bluegrass, gospel, and americana is WSM. But the thing is WSM is not in the FM dial
September 6, 2013 @ 5:24 am
I hate to do an advertisement but Outlaw Country and Willie’s Roadhouse on SiriusXM are the only music stations that I listen to on a regular basis. Those two stations will provide you with all the good new stuff and all the great old hits. Worth the money to know that you won’t hear any of the dreck on regular radio.
September 6, 2013 @ 9:58 am
While that may be just fine for us, I believe that everyone is entitled to good music, and unfortunately most people don’t have satellite radio, and some that do just use it to listen commercial free to the same type of stuff Alan Jackson is criticizing here. As much as conventional radio in the long run seems to be doomed, it is still the biggest outlet to get music to people, and the health and balance of the music there ends up being reflected in other parts of culture. It is great that people in the know have alternatives, but it would be great if the masses had choice too, and if the great traditional and independent artists had more support that would come from a wider audience.
September 6, 2013 @ 11:00 am
That’s the big thing right there. I’m perfectly capable of dialing in a “real’ country station that broadcasts online, or setting up a Pandora station to play what I want to hear, or downloading a bunch of tracks on the cheap to play on my MP3 player in the car, or breaking down and getting satellite radio. But the demographic that’s being most disenfranchised by the current trend in country music are the folks a little older than me, say in their 60s on up, who are either unable or unwilling to navigate the technology required to listen to the music they want to hear. In my area we are fortunate to have a station that plays older country and the newer songs that are a little more traditional, but by and large folks who rely on broadcast radio for their music are stuck with Jason Bryan, Luke Aldean, and their ilk.
September 6, 2013 @ 8:14 pm
There’s always pandora…
September 6, 2013 @ 7:07 am
Time to cross over to Ameripolitan Alan. Check out AmeripolitanMusic.com, Dale Watston of Austin, TX doing what he can to preserve roots music. Let Country keep their pop-rock junk, we got a new gig going on now!
September 6, 2013 @ 7:48 am
I agree. I’m think its a relief when esteemed members of the country music community can keep a level head and state their point without sounding irate and irrational.
Kind of the opposite of Ted Nugent and the firearms in America debate. I love the guy, but the way he speaks just turns the casual observer off, and he’s labeled a crazy man.
September 6, 2013 @ 8:15 am
Alan may be a bit too pessimistic here, but I nevertheless think he did a great job in expressing his opinion, which is similar to that of millions of angry folks.
September 6, 2013 @ 9:38 am
God bless Alan Jackson ! Classy as always. He is a great “elder” statesman for country music. I’m spoiled I have 95.3 The Range were I live. A great mix of classic country Texas/Red Dirt/Roots music and Americana. They even have a weekend bluegrass show. http:www.khyi.com The only station I have ever heard back to back Merle Haggard, REK and the Dirty River Boys with the set closed out by Wayne the Train Hancock. I agree Sirrus is worth it I love Willie’s road house and outlaw country.
December 6, 2013 @ 11:39 pm
I will buy the music loooong before I will pay for “radio”!
September 6, 2013 @ 11:25 am
I hated “Good Time” as well, and “Country Boy” wasn’t much better, but as a whole Alan Jackson is one of the good guys and always has been, IMO. And he’s exactly right here.
September 7, 2013 @ 12:23 pm
Its amazing how some of you pick a handful of songs out of a 20 plus year career to judge an artist. Hell all the greats have had a few misses. Alan Jackson has been carrying the torch for traditional country music for a long time and is one of the few who has been able to stay traditional and maintain mainstream success. He seems like a stand up dude too, not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. Give the guy credit where its due.
September 15, 2013 @ 1:16 pm
His latest hymn cd, Precious Memories II is wonderful!
December 6, 2013 @ 11:50 pm
Alan Jackson is ABOVE but still a product of “Country American Radio” and it’s production. I can see by the “great songs” he has released that the “drivel” has only been a token to the dollars that have controlled and persuaded him into doing “this song”,…and those other ones will be “Okay”! Alan Jacksons “good” songs definetly out weigh corporate manipulation.
September 6, 2013 @ 11:38 am
When they stop putting CD players in cars/trucks traditional country will make a come back.
September 6, 2013 @ 1:47 pm
I just love Alan Jackson he spoke his mind. You would never see George Strait do that. He still has his nose and lips pressed to tight to corporate Nashvile . I remember when GS was accepting an award for Murder On Music Row and he said “I don’t know how seriously this song was written but it was recorded as kind of a joke” I lost a huge chunk of respect for Strait that night. I have friends who know the writers and the song was not meant to be a joke.
September 10, 2013 @ 6:57 am
if you knew anything Strait has said something about current country and he was exactly right.
September 10, 2013 @ 9:11 am
Listen folks! Not sure what’s up with folks using offensive language against each other all of a sudden in the comments, but it must stop. It’s just music. Disgree, but show respect or comments are going to be edited, or deleted. Please and thank you.
September 10, 2013 @ 10:24 am
I must have missed it. Strait was once my favorite singer. He has softened his music to much for my taste the last 10 plus years. I still say he would never go out a limb like Alan did when he sang “Choices”
September 6, 2013 @ 4:20 pm
The current state of country music is horrible! With the shit they are putting on the radio now I just choose not to listen at all. I will say there are still a couple of artists that try to carry on the country flame easton Corbin josh turner but im about to puke with this miley cyrus sounding shit that is on the radio now
September 6, 2013 @ 5:22 pm
So is Alan going to be releasing a song titled “Gone Bluegrass”? (lol) I agree with what Alan says but those types of sentiments aren’t going to change the direction of Top 40 AirHead Country radio. It has become a prominent part of pop culture and will continue down that path towards the “mono-genre” Trigger writes about frequently until any remnants of “authentic country-ness” have been banished entirely.
I hate to see it happening but traditional country music is heading for the same sort of cultural irrelevance that happened to cowboy music, western swing, hillbilly boogie, and honky tonk music after it’s popularity dwindled to non-sustainable levels. Thankfully that historic music will always be available for those who seek it out, but it will never become a vital part of the current mainstream ever again. That train keeps a rollin’ and has already headed over the cliff as far as musical integrity and lasting value to society are concerned.
September 7, 2013 @ 7:01 am
Unfortunately I agree with you. Autotuned throw-away pretty boy country crap/rap is here to stay. Fans of this stuff are not going to wake up and decide they like George Jones or Dale Watson because they hate that type of real country music. It is also irrelevant to them because they didn’t grow up with it.
For myself, I didn’t listen to much country either in my 20’s which is the country-rap demographic but i didn’t hate it. I grew up with traditional country from my parents but I just preferred rock music. I returned to country as I got older. Today’s country crap fans don’t know traditional country, don’t like it and can’t relate to it. While some may find interest in it eventually the vast majority of them will never embrace it.
September 6, 2013 @ 9:31 pm
It’s only getting worse. Listen to Justin Moore’s new single. 30 seconds in and smoke was coming out of my ears.
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/our-country/exclusive-listen-justin-moore-brand-butt-kickin-single-150615825.html
September 6, 2013 @ 9:44 pm
I can’t express to you how much venom is boiling inside of me about that song. Justin Moore is proving he truly is the most evil entertainer in mainstream country.
September 7, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
And this happened just as I was slightly starting to warm up to his current single “Point At You”. Granted it’s nothing great or remotely groundbreaking, but it’s pleasant and sunny-sounding.
Seems like “Point At You” will be the exception rather than the rule regarding “Off The Beaten Path”. Then again, we were well-alerted with titles like “Field Fulla Hillbillies”, “Beer”, “Big Ass Headache”, “Country Radio” and “Dirt Road Kid”.What, “Back That Thing Up” wasn’t enough? -__-
September 10, 2013 @ 10:30 am
Trig,
Please do a rant on I’d Want It To Be Yours. I thought I’d heard all the gutter trash Nashvile could churn out. but I was wrong.
September 7, 2013 @ 3:10 pm
I have to say that I only listen to Willies Place on xm radio these days.They are the only ones that play the traditional country music 24/7 if you don’t have xm radio don’t complain if you are having to listen to this so called new country crap they have on the radio now,Tim McGraw,Kenny Chesney,Taylor Swift,are not country,they are new country,and they are not not not on xm radio.Texas has some really good country artist you can hear on xm,plus Allen Jackson and George Strait,and all the other people that record and tour and do traditional country like Loretta Lynn.I love it and will continue to listen to xm radio to hear the real think.Thanks so much Allen for sticking to your guns and playing the good stuff even though there is very little left,you cant hear it on regular radio anymore,only xm plays it.Allen is one of the best and has not only sang,but written some of the best traditional stuff around for years,and I for one hope he will stay with it,I know he is very upset over this as George Jones was prior to his passing,but what will be will be xm is still there,more people need to get a xm radio and enjoy good traditional radio,ask the truckers what station they listen to….Jerry enjoy traditional music
September 9, 2013 @ 3:06 pm
Alan should just do what he’s done quite a bit of over the years. Update old songs while keeping it country, or take older rock songs and make them country.
I get his complaint, hell, I even appreciate him having the guts to come out and say it… but I don’t see how it really applies to him after he managed to make country songs out of “Summertime Blues” and “Mercury Blues”, and turn old songs like “Pop A Top” and “Who’s Cheatin’ Who?” into chart-toppers all over again.
He and Dwight Yoakum could make a country song out of damn near anything (“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “Little Sister”), and make the old stuff (“Honky Tonk Man”, “Streets of Bakersfield”) seem new.
September 15, 2013 @ 1:19 pm
Too bad Alan and George do not do an album together!
September 16, 2013 @ 12:22 pm
Hey there, Trigger,
How would you like to make an article about Taylor Swift paying country songs on pop radio/MTV in the future. That would be cool. Imagine Taylor Swift’s first song Tim McGraw form 2006 aired on pop radio stations as special deals. So I would like pop radio offered labels special deals to play Taylor Swift’s country songs that aren’t crossovers on pop stations. That would be nice. I wish MTV and MTV Hits airs country music videos for Taylor Swift songs as special airings. So how about making an article about a speculation for playing country songs by Taylor Swift on pop stations like MTV in the future, please. I want to see all country songs by Taylor Swift on pop music stations (pop radio, MTV etc.). Heck pop music could throw in Tim McGraw’s Highway Don’t Care featuring Taylor Swift on pop radio/MTV too. 🙂
Filler
September 16, 2013 @ 12:24 pm
I personally would like to see as few articles about Taylor Swift on here as possible. But that’s just me.
September 30, 2013 @ 9:18 pm
Alan is right…it’s the arguement that’s going on now with Zac Brown and Luke Bryan music. There’s a lot of “junk” country on the radio. I’ve worked country radio for 34 years. It all has a beat now, very few ballads. The message of Luke Bryan songs is “partying with my buddies, looking for a hot girl to take home tonight.” He’s not the only one. Carrie Underwood’s “Undo it” and “I don’t even know my last name” are true “Junk” country songs. If you like real country music, you’re out of luck. Young people buy most of the music. You might listen on the radio, but unless you’re actually buying the music, you have absolutely no say in what’s being produced. And record labels care only about the biggest of the big market radio stations. Get your music played there, and the rest of radio goes along for the ride. Sorry, that’s the way it works.
October 16, 2013 @ 8:37 am
“There’s been an awful murder, down on music row”
May 1, 2017 @ 9:04 am
Considering Alan Jackson killed country, that song is basically the country version of Key and Peele’s video Rap Album Confessions.
#AlanJacksonKilledCountry
October 17, 2013 @ 9:19 am
Funny, Trigger, I’ve been listening to Lindi all morning. Maybe we should get Alan a copy of this album for his birthday?
http://youtu.be/mJUcVlkgbJg
October 17, 2013 @ 12:39 pm
Ashton Kutcher is the highest paid actor on TV…making 28 million a year. He replaced the original Charlie Sheen who ranted against his former boss.
Pop Country replaced the original. Was that the master plan?
I’ve tried to tell myself that the dumbing down of country music…mono music is good. I even pretend that Taylor Swift’s songwriting is the best I’ve ever heard.
It’s so darn catchy and upbeat…earworms that you cannot get out of your head.
But I grew up during the last great music renaissance….a period of true artistic activity. It was a rebirth and revival of every genre of musical creativity. The loopy standards of today’s country music wins an audience.
It’s not due to the quality of the shows but to the immense appeal and charm of dismal party animal anthems. It is garbage music for tweens.
Music row is crafting the stupidest songs I’ve ever heard…gimmickery all gimmickery.
Pop Country is faker than a psychic with a caller ID.
December 13, 2013 @ 7:29 am
Autotune too. There is too much of that, that’s as bad as lip syncing. Also I like a concert where the artist or band just play music, not all the glitz and clothing changes and stuff like that. Of course some of them wouldn’t make it without autotune.
July 30, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
Earworm is real…I thought it was fictional…Wow…I my parents lied to me saying it wasn’t real cause I heard the term off a spongebob episode and no wonder I’ve been listening to Alan Jackson’s 1993 hit Chattahoochee
December 13, 2013 @ 7:27 am
Wish they would have a country radio station that played non pop country music. I don’t listen to much radio anymore because it is a lot of pop and that is another reason I don’t watch award shows because pop artists are taking awards away from country artists. Of course it is popularity contest now. Miss the music from the 1990’s and early 2000’s before pop took over.
June 3, 2014 @ 11:25 am
I agree with Alan Jackson we got show the record padus,,,It should not be about them it should about the love of Country Music and getting back,,,,The way country Music……And pushing away the legends of Country Music…..Because they were the ones that started it all they not be a Carrie underwood or Blackat Shellen or Tayler Swaich……Know about that country music padus
I REST MY CASE!!!!!!!!!! And OH YA YOU CAN THE LEGENDS OF YESTER YEAR
Corine
July 28, 2014 @ 11:35 pm
I know this post is old but maybe Alan Jackson is right but in my opinion if Alan wants to make another successful hit album & song like he did in the old days maybe he should team up with some of the good artists that are popular today example remember when Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson teamed up on a song called “As She’s Walking Away” or how Tim McGraw teamed up with Taylor Swift he should at least make another album that features 21 songs that includes 2 different versions of his comedy hit “A million Ways to Die” (Album Version & Radio Edit), and 5 duets featuring Martina McBride, The Band Perry, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, and Garth Brooks (since he’s making a comeback I hope) and possibly a few covers from his favorite singers. And believe me I’m one of Alan’s biggest fans. I have almost every single Album & Single he’s made except for some of his compilation Albums cause some of them don’t have newer songs.
May 1, 2017 @ 9:12 am
The irony in the article is OFF THE HOOK!!! Why the hell would Alan Jackson be criticizing the lack of quality in modern country when HE STARTED IT HIMSELF?!!! Like, he killed country music by dumbing it down (i.e., that stupid 9/11-exploiting song where he couldn’t tell the difference between Iraq and Iran) and living up to stereotypes (i.e., “It’s Alright to Be a Redneck”, “Where I Come From”, “Country Boy”). Also, it was Jackson who invented bro-country. His song “Chattahoochee” is littered with bro-country buzzwords such as moonlight, girls, and trucks. And not to mention he covered Wiz Khalifa’s “We Dem Boyz” and Akon’s “Don’t Matter” at his concerts. Considering Alan Jackson killed country, “Murder on Music Row” is basically the country version of Key and Peele’s video Rap Album Confessions. Alan Jackson did to country music what Soulja Boy did to hip-hop.
#AlanJacksonKilledCountry
May 1, 2017 @ 9:24 am
50 things I’d rather do than listen to than Alan Jackson’s “music”
1. Get 100 mosquito bites
2. Take up chainsaw juggling.
3. Be mistaken for a pinata by small Mexican children
4. Clean the windows of a skyscraper. (So. Many. Windows.)
5. Write a five-page essay 10 minutes before class
6. Have Lil Wayne’s voice
7. Test Ginsu knives with Mrs. Bobbitt helping out.
8. Go on a blind date with Joanna Dennehy
9. Eat potatoes straight out of the oven
10. Put on a new screen protector and realize there is lint stuck under it
11. Eating pizza rolls before they cool and burning your mouth
12. Have a squirrel throw an acorn at my head. (Ouch!)
13. Listen to another tax commercial about delayed tax returns
14. Be on a plane with a terrorist
15. Pencil tip breaking every time you try to write something
16. Making a sandwich with only the ends of the bread
17. Have a Britney Spears 2007 level meltdown
18. Food getting stuck in the vending machine
19. Have Bill Cosby as my children’s preschool teacher
20. Lick a hobo’s foot
21. Arm wrestle the Hulk.
22. Join a cult.
23. Listen to a GSU student talk about how Armstrong is gone for 5 hours
24. Teach a subject I know nothing about to high school students.
25. Dissect a frog
26. Wear only Crocs for the rest of my life.
27. Have a paper cut under my finger nail.
28. Act like Boris The Teeth Guy
29. Drop my iPhone in the sewer.
30. Have the seat belt come undone on a roller coaster.
31. Go in for a minor surgery, but they instead remove a kidney.
32. Do the dishes with soggy food on them.
33. Never be able to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings ever again.
34. Become blind.
35. Paint my walls gray.
36. Take 10 years to graduate with my undergraduate degree.
37. Sit on spikes
38. Delete my Pandora account
39. Listen to Chris Brown explaining why he’s actually the victim.
40. Saw off my sack (castration).
41. “Welcome to Hell. Here is your ticket to ‘The Eternal Bill Engvall Comedy Show’. Step inside.”
42. Listen to “She Cranks My Tractor”
43. Be Hillary Clinton
44. Be Gary Johnson
45. Stub my toe
46. Go to an Air Supply cover band with poor venue acoustics.
47. Hearing twice-removed relatives having sex.
48. Get lost in a city I don’t know.
49. Live beside a long term nighttime construction job
50. Read the Dictionary in full
#AlanJacksonKilledCountry
May 1, 2017 @ 9:29 am
Rain drop, drop top
Alan Jackson turned country into pop
And covered Wiz Khalifa and Young Joc
#AlanJacksonKilledCountry
April 8, 2024 @ 7:34 am
Deeeerpy derp derp derpy on derp chattahoochy. GTFO