What Dumbasses Thought Bringing Back ‘American Idol’ Was a Good Idea?
Just like the malaise we're seeing in music and movies, attempting to reboot 'American Idol' is the sign of a lack of new ideas or originality. America has moved on from American Idol, and unless it's...
View ArticleLIONEL RICHIE IS NOT COUNTRY !!!
Country music's complicit and overly submissive posture towards Lionel Ritchie has been nothing short of miraculous. But the truth of the matter is that Lionel Ritchie isn't using country music,...
View ArticleLionel Richie’s “Tuskegee” is Big Country Embarrassment
This album is not the worst album ever put out in country music. With the advent of country rap, "New Outlaw" country, and the laundry list approach to country music in general, pop country now finds...
View ArticleOfficial Saving Country Music Pop Country Nicknames
As frequent readers of Saving Country Music will attest, over the years we've christened fun little nicknames for some our favorite pals of pop country. If you ever wondered where these names came from...
View ArticleIf Everything Is So Bad, Why Are Music Sales Increasing?
Oh how independent music nerds love to puff their chest out and pontificate about what's wrong with the mainstream music industry, how it's creatively bankrupt and was too slow to evolve to the onset...
View Article2012 CMA Award Nominations, Observations, Predictions
Love 'em or hate 'em, it's hard to dispute that the CMA Awards are the most important night in country music every year. The nominations announced last week had a few interesting wrinkles including...
View Article7 Signs The Mono-Genre Is Here
When I first proposed the theory that all popular music was coalescing into one big mono-genre where even the two traditionally polarized genres of country and hip-hop would be living side by side,...
View ArticleThe Most Notorious “Gone Country” Moments
In 2013, stories of entertainers that "go country" are routine occurrences instead of reasons for surprise, intrigue, or outrage, because country music has officially become the default repository for...
View ArticleHow Waylon Jennings Forever Changed “We Are The World”
If you watch the video for "We Are The World" (see below) or look at any of the pictures from the recording session, Waylon Jennings is nowhere to be found. That's because even though he was selected...
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