Still More Country Than Sam Hunt . . .
When your music is better classified in every single other major American genre of music instead of country, then maybe you should consider to quit lying to your fans and the public and quit calling it country, kind of like Taylor Swift did. It’s not just that Sam Hunt isn’t country, it’s that he is the absolute antithesis of country.
To illustrate this point, here’s a collection of things that are not country at all on the surface, but are still more country than Sam Hunt.
A Collection of Swamp Dogg Album Covers . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
Miley Cyrus . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
New York City . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
A Pimple on Elton John’s Ass . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
Shooter Jennings’ Glam Rock Band Stargunn . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
British-Born Militant Vegan New Wave Pop Rocker Morrissey Wearing a Spacesuit . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
Tim McGraw’s “McGraw” Cologne . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
Hayley Williams—Pink-Haired Front Girl of the Power Pop Band Paramore . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
KISS Giving an Academy of Country Music Award to Lady Antebellum . . . Still More Country Than Sam Hunt
Taylor Swift, Adele, Meghan Trainor, Dozens of Other Pop Stars, and Yes, Even Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line . . . Still, Somehow, More Country Than Sam Hunt.
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September 4, 2015 @ 8:07 am
Boy George and Culture Club still more country than Sam Hunt
September 4, 2015 @ 8:29 am
“Karma Chameleon” had acoustic guitars and a prominent harmonica. Sam Hunt talks about nothing to the sound of dial up internet.
September 5, 2015 @ 3:17 am
Actually, Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley’s recording of ”Where’s the dress” uses Karma’s acoustic guitar’s intro.
September 5, 2015 @ 5:57 am
It certainly does (the whole song is making fun of Boy George, but it could be relevant for Bruce Jenner today…).
Excellent country music knowledge, by the way.
September 4, 2015 @ 8:10 am
Wow. There has been a lot of ridiculous shit done in the name of country, ain’t there? Sort of in your face when it is grouped together like this. So sad.
And, I am calling foul on the visual of Elton’s eruption. Dang, dude–you know we can’t un-see that shit and you do it anyway? Not cool. 😉
September 4, 2015 @ 9:33 am
Thankfully, I don’t have to see it 🙂
September 4, 2015 @ 8:10 am
F******* HILARIOUS Trigger . Elton John’s pimple !!!!! hahahaha …….
Man I hope someone shows this to Sam Hunt.Surely he’d ” get it ” …
September 4, 2015 @ 8:27 am
If I were an asscheek pimple, I’d be offended to even get compared to Sam Hunt.
Samuel’s Adolf Hitler hairdo has got to go.
September 4, 2015 @ 8:30 am
Britney Spears and Lady Gaga, with Madonna on back up vocals, singing Elton John’s Candle in the Wind, Still more Country than Sam Hunt.
September 4, 2015 @ 8:34 am
Miley Cyrus needs to turn her piano player’s volume way down, but that was actually pretty good.
September 4, 2015 @ 1:21 pm
Yeah, I saw that video a year or two ago, and I hate to admit, I really like it a lot. If she had gone in that sort of a direction with her music, I think I’d even be a fan.
September 4, 2015 @ 8:39 am
Greetings SCM: I have nothing new to report from my mission to find a new home free of bad music, except that Gary LeVox is a poor road-trip-buddy. He ate all my cheese-puffs and drives too close to passing space rocks. The GPS has no idea where we are, it’s just flashing and requesting we make a U-Turn.
This article is hilarious, my favorites were Swamp Dogg covers and Elton John’s pimple. BUT saying Luke Bryan is more country than Sam Hunt is like saying a three-day–dead cougar is more dead than one that died this morning. They’re both dead, just that one is MORE dead than the other.
September 4, 2015 @ 8:53 am
William Buckley…STILL more country than Sam Hunt.
September 4, 2015 @ 8:58 am
Seriously? Another Sam Hunt article??? Why do all traditional country fans hate Sam SOOOOO much???? Like I know I sound biased but damn there’s SO many other ppl out there to pick on like Jason Aldean who can’t win country awards but wins pop awards. Luke Bryan who shakes his nonexistent ass for cash. Hunter Hayes who sounds like a mix between a damn cheese grater and a billy goat. Kenny Chesney who only sings about the beach. Chris Jamson who loves his boat. Thomas Rhett. Cole Swindell is a huge one y’all can have a field day with. Scotty McCreery. And why does everyone say Sam should move to country? I hear FGL on pop radio way more than Ssm. Do y’all hate Sam because he’s different? Because he doesn’t copy outlaw singers? If Sam has to go to pop why is it cool for Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson to be considered country? Is it cool cause they’re “hot” women? Kelly doesn’t even sound country when she sings. She’s always been pop. Why is it cool for Jana Kramer to stay and keep faking her country twang(yes that Michigan girl completely fakes it when she sings) Sam is not going to pop no matter how many bad articles are written about him.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:09 am
I take exception to your characterization that I don’t impugn today’s worst country artists with the utmost in equality. I’ve razzed on Luke Bryan way more lately than Sam Hunt. It will never be enough until Sam Hunt and others see the error of his ways are reverse course. And even if that never happens, at least our spirited dissent will be recorded in the annals of country music.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:12 am
I think he’s going to pop.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:13 am
“Why do traditional country fans hate Sam?” Simple: I sat down one day for a Shrimp Burrito. Sam Hunt walked up, plopped spaghetti down on my plate and told me my shrimp burrito had evolved. Don’t get it? Let me explain: I want country music, but I got something else, and then got told that my country had evolved. You wouldn’t care to go to a bank, walk in and find out that it was a Subway, “because banks have to evolve,” would you?
Feel free to like Sam Hunt, but the minute I open a box of almonds and find an ink pen inside, somebody’s going to get reprimanded, not because I think he sucks, but because I don’t like it when one product is packaged as another product. That’s called dishonesty.
September 4, 2015 @ 3:36 pm
I don’t know how I’m still alive, I think I almost died reading that.
September 4, 2015 @ 3:57 pm
I don’t understand… Could you enlightmen me?
September 4, 2015 @ 4:08 pm
died *laughing, at your post Fuzzy
September 4, 2015 @ 4:14 pm
Well I wasn’t trying to be funny. But thank you!
September 4, 2015 @ 4:37 pm
How about this? Sam Hunt is a shrimp burrito gone bad in the back of the fridge.
September 4, 2015 @ 5:39 pm
Nah, the shrimp burrito had to have BEEN good once in order to go bad.
September 4, 2015 @ 5:59 pm
I just got off the phone with Sam and get this . He claims he didn’t KNOW he was being played on the country charts . He said ” Of course I’m trying to be a pop act . Why would ANYONE think I’m country …and who the hell sent my stuff to country stations ? Apparently his barber ( yes he actually said ‘barber’ ) is his personal manager and this isn’t the first mistake he’s made ….Sam’s hair notwithstanding. He suspects the barber may have given his CD to Blake who comes in from time to time NOT to get a shave and Blake told all the radio bros they should play it cuz it was a country album. Go figure ! Anyway Sam assured me he’d have his barber replaced ASAP and to ignore Blake Shelton cuz he’s just an ‘ol fart . He also invited any of us who care to come to his next House Party . Seemed like an OK , if slightly misinformed , dude and he’s only doing the music thing to make enough money to go back to school in the fall. He plans to study ” WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS” .
September 4, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
Sorry Albert, funny though this post may be it doesn’t change my mind. If I find a Death Star out here he’s high on my hit list.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:14 am
Sam is not going to pop no matter how many bad articles are written about him.
How can you “go to” some place you already are, unless your last name is Schrödinger, perhaps?
September 4, 2015 @ 4:37 pm
GET ME OUT OF THIS BOX!
September 4, 2015 @ 4:42 pm
Meeeeooowwwwww 😀
September 4, 2015 @ 4:51 pm
From a scientific standpoint, that whole concept is really quite absurd. Whether or not we can perceive something doesn’t change a fact. The cat IS either alive or dead, whether or not we can observe it, so to consider it simultaneously both or neither is to distort reality. Since it cannot be both, and it also cannot be either, it HAS to be one or the other. Likewise, no matter what a body’s opinion is, Sam Hunt isn’t country, a squirrel is not a member of the weasel family, and cherries are not vegetables. The problem then is not whether or not the cat is alive or dead, it’s the fact that the human mind needs a solution to uncertainty, which prompted the uncertainty principle in the first place, a principle whose sole purpose is to give the human mind some closure, since it has no real bearing on facts.
September 6, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
Eh, okay. I was just being facetious, really.
September 10, 2015 @ 7:38 pm
Fuzzy Twoshirts, The Schrodinger’s Cat thing is just an analogy. Not talking about an actual cat. Quantum physics is a real thing, it has been proven, and alot of the modern technology that we use wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for quantum physics.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:35 am
While Sam hunt isn’t my cup of tea,he’s hardly the worst of the new artist…what FGL/Luke/Aldean have done to the genre is far more damaging
September 7, 2015 @ 11:24 am
Do you even know what you’re talking about
September 4, 2015 @ 10:04 am
I think seirra is secretly sam hunt and is using a fake name to deffend himself
September 4, 2015 @ 1:41 pm
Nah.
Her post just seems like someone that wants to do him and doesn’t care about talent.
September 4, 2015 @ 10:11 am
I’m not a traditional country fan, I’m an all kinds of country fan.
I don’t hate Hunt at all but it really sucks that country radio plays his pure pop instead of country artists.
Clarkson isn’t considered country, country radio didn’t play her pure pop songs much and they shouldn’t have played them at all. Her duets with country artists were fine and more country than Hunt. Most of Underwood’s songs are far more country than Hunt’s. Kramer’s songs are far more country than Hunt’s and she isn’t faking the country music.
Everyone who isn’t good or country gets picked on.
September 4, 2015 @ 3:13 pm
At first when you said that you weren’t a traditional country fan I was about to have to kick your ass through my phone screen, but then you said you’re an all kinds of country fan, but I hope that when you meant by all kinds you’re weren’t talking about bro country because if you are I will kick your ass through
my phone screen.
September 4, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
I said I’m not a traditional fan and like all kinds of country because idiots keep assuming if we don’t like Hunt or bro-country we only like traditional and don’t like modern. I only like good country. Bro-country isn’t even country and that’s the problem with that name. Bro-pop would be more accurate.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:12 pm
It was a joke and seriousness at the same time, no need to get defensive over it bud.
September 4, 2015 @ 2:10 pm
Sweet baby something.. I do not see where love for Sam Hunt and SCM is a perfect fit. Why do you even bother taking the time posting, You are just fucking with us aren’t ya.
November 1, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
He’s not country! Let him go to hip hop or pop…..
Lets get back to REAL country music!!!!
September 4, 2015 @ 9:56 am
Taylor Swift’s entire first album and all of her pop country songs
Jessica Simpson’s country album
Justin Bieber
The Backstreet Boys
Every classic rocker
Everyone else country radio has ever played
September 4, 2015 @ 10:02 am
Don’t forget Shania Twain dressing like a whore and her dancing fiddlers
September 4, 2015 @ 9:59 am
And Hayley Williams obviously respects country music more than the rest of these clowns. They probably wouldn’t even know what song she was singing.
September 4, 2015 @ 2:10 pm
Same goes for Morrissey. I was always a big Smiths fan back in my younger days, but I was surprised to hear him turn in such a decent rendition of a Waylon song.
September 4, 2015 @ 10:08 am
Whahahaha. Made for a good laugh before the weekend. But,,,,,,,,, Paramore is very far from power pop. Big Star is power pop. Early Cheap Trick and on and on.. Power pop is just about the best kinda pop.
September 6, 2015 @ 2:50 pm
Well, power pop is just that–pop/rock songs with heavy power chords, strong melodies and crisp vocal harmonies. A lot of pop punk bands like Paramore fall into power pop, especially on their self-titled album. Pop punk and power pop tend to go hand-in-hand a lot.
With that in mind, I think calling Morrissey a “Jangle Pop Rocker” is more accurate than a “New Wave Pop Rocker”, because The Smiths were far from new wave (although “How Soon is Now?” has a post-punk feeling to it).
September 4, 2015 @ 10:34 am
Who is Swamp Dogg, and how have I never heard of such a seemingly-brilliant artist?
September 4, 2015 @ 11:45 am
Thanks for turning me on to SWAMP DOGG, the original D-O-DOUBLE G!
September 6, 2015 @ 2:50 pm
wrong comment
I keep screwing up a lot, don’t I?
September 4, 2015 @ 1:48 pm
Nelly’s “Country Grammar”
Still more country than Sam Hunt.
September 6, 2015 @ 2:51 pm
Big Country and “In a Big Country”–still more country than Sam Hunt.
AND THEY’RE A NEW WAVE BAND, FOR GOD’S SAKE!
September 4, 2015 @ 2:21 pm
This truly made me lol but so sadly true. Just would add that The Donald is more country than Sam Hunt!
September 4, 2015 @ 2:59 pm
Fuck the donald. Kelsey Waldon in concert all i wanna.
September 4, 2015 @ 3:00 pm
Metallica is more country https://youtube.com/watch?v=4FKYsUEuvIo
Opeth is more country https://youtube.com/watch?v=7vFr7AIJNmE
September 4, 2015 @ 3:11 pm
Someone rewrote Sam I Am and it’s hilarious.
https://www.facebook.com/thetasteofcountry/posts/1197246113638384
Look in the comments.
September 4, 2015 @ 3:16 pm
Just so folks don’t have to click through to Facebook, esp. the page of Taste of Country:
“Sam I am is not country on the radio in a car. He is not country near or far. He is not country in box, he is not country reported by Fox. He is not country when he is singing about a party in a house, he is less country than Mickey Mouse. He is not country here or there. He is not country anywhere. I do not like Sam I am , I can’t stand him so you see. You should not be reporting about him Taste of Country!”
September 4, 2015 @ 3:34 pm
The problem is that I doubt most of the people who follow Taste of Country are mature enough to have read that book, so they won’t get the reference.
I read through those comments, MOST people even there are in agreement that he isn’t Country. That one woman though…
September 4, 2015 @ 4:16 pm
I follow them on Twitter, don’t know why I still do. I think 13yo girls run that account.
“OMG look who Taylor Swift got to come up on stage with her you’ll just DIE”
That kind of stuff makes me want to break my phone.
September 4, 2015 @ 4:46 pm
I’ll admit to being a bit of a comments section crusader. When that article about Taylor Swift’s mom having cancer came out, I came dangerously close to posting a comment that read “we already know she has a cancer, she named it Taylor.” Certain articles here on SCM have drawn in “fanboys” whose behavior has prompted me to post some less than polite comments, and I weighed in pretty heavily when a certain individual’s passing prompted people to start trouble in the comments section. I’d probably get banned from commenting on a place like Taste of Country, although judging by some of the comments on the above article, they seem ok with dissenters.
September 4, 2015 @ 3:49 pm
Taste Of Country.com…….still more country than Sam Hunt.
Friend Zone……still mo…..ok let me think about this one……
September 4, 2015 @ 4:12 pm
Bon Jovi and Aerosmith is more country than Sam Hunt.
September 4, 2015 @ 5:25 pm
Trig, good shit dude. Hilarious.
September 4, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
not many living people are more country than swamp dogg really, covered by johnny paycheck, signed to mercury nashville for a shelved album, did songs written by joe south etc… that’s country
September 6, 2015 @ 11:45 am
The radio was playing “Faith” by George Michael this morning. And George Michael is, yes, more country than Sam Hunt, at least in the guitar solo.
September 6, 2015 @ 7:40 pm
Dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SleYHOcLjOg
September 6, 2015 @ 10:46 pm
Widespread Panic: certainly a lot more country than Sam Hunt
September 7, 2015 @ 2:04 am
I say we start a “Hunt Sam” campaign where in anytime anyone sees him or knows where he is in town we track him down and say “(Insert noun here) more country than Sam Hunt”.
Example: Say you are at Kripsy Kreme and see Sam Hunt. Walk up to him and hold up a doughnut and say, “This doughnut is more country than Sam Hunt”. And walk away. I also recommend you have somebody snap a quick pick of the event and post it to social media.
September 7, 2015 @ 10:16 am
Was Nashville originally a city of (real) country music? I thought it was. Or has there always been other types of music recorded there like it appears now? Pop, rap, rock, etc. It seems all types of musicians are gravitating there now. And when did this mass entry start? Possibly it was after the pop country crap started? Lots of questions I know. Love opinions from those that know.
I loved the article, hilarious;)
September 7, 2015 @ 10:25 am
Elvis, Bob Dylan, and tons of rock and pop artists have always recorded in Nashville. But they’ve never called that music country until here recently. That is the difference.
September 7, 2015 @ 6:58 pm
Any place that has an active music scene is going to attract artists from many different genres. For many reasons. Places to play, access to studios, etc. Nashville has been know historically as a place where country music is king, but there is a lot happening outside of country music. Like trigger said, it’s that stuff is being marketed as country that is nowhere near country.
September 7, 2015 @ 6:52 pm
Mike Ness is more country than Sam Hunt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIuk4tobrY
September 8, 2015 @ 3:59 pm
Glen Benton of Deicide….STILL more country than Sam Hunt!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35XFij4OdOE
September 8, 2015 @ 7:37 pm
Awesome!
September 8, 2015 @ 9:11 pm
Saving Country Music gold, Trigger! We need more of these articles with a little levity these days!
September 9, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
After reading this, I think an artist singing “country” means an artists singing the message low-income white culture wants to hear. A comprehensive definition of “country” has never been agreed upon. Past originating from the Appalachia, scholars can’t agree when the music gets to the point where it is no longer country. Dolly Parton? Garth? Jason Aldean? The current working definition is always changing, similar to the latest trends in fashion. The aggressive “this is not country” attitude shows how displeased the base is with the figureheads who have obtained power in their cultural outlet and how lower income whites are pissed that they are losing their voice in American culture.
Country’s core fan base believes those artists don’t represent the base’s values and lifestyle. Does this mean that low-income white culture is changing and marketers aren’t sure how to successfully market to them? Or that low-income white culture is no longer profitable to sell to the rest of the market?
September 10, 2015 @ 12:37 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11h73WhqK4
That boy Sam Hunt is as country as a old blue ford tractor… what is wrong with you people?
He is the guest host on Hee Haw this week.
November 1, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
How do we help Sam Hunt find his own place in music other than country music! He’s not country!!!!
He’s an embarrassment!!