“Alexa play the number one country music song Texas Hold Em by Beyonce”.
My Husband and I’s oldest son gave us an Alexa, it is a device that can play music and complete many other helpful tasks with an oral command. Alexa started playing the song along with the video.
What the …..? Who are you calling a “B” and what in the world are you wearing? Is your mother still your stylist? This Rhinestone Cowgirl is not impressed. In fact I am even more than upset as to where the country music genre has taken itself. Are we just supposed to sit back and watch, turn to a different station or do something!
“Single Ladies”, married ladies, where is our self-respect and flat out class anymore. I told my 86 year old mother-in-law “I think you are the last of the classy women.” I have four granddaughters and I would like to get back to where women are respected because they deserve to be respected by their actions and well thought out words.
I used to love Country Music until I started really listening to the words. I was singing thoughtlessly in the vehicle with our young sons in the back seat when I realized the words were not what I wanted planted in their heads. I remember belting out “Our D. I. V. O. R. C. E. became final today! Wait, NO!
Was I deaf all those years prior?
The words to David Allen Cole’s song, You Never Call Me By My Name read, “A perfect country and western song needs to include words about Momma, trains, trucks, going to prison and getting drunk”. Currently, the words have far outreached those boundaries and have gone straight into the pop genres foul mouth and sexual realm.
Country and Western Music, Western has been dropped from the
title, did it start out like this? Brittanica
states; Ultimately, country music’s roots lie in the ballads, folk songs, and
popular songs of the English, Scots, and Irish settlers of the Appalachians and
other parts of the South. In the early 1920s the traditional string-band music
of the Southern Mountain regions began to be commercially recorded, with
Fiddlin’ John Carson garnering the genre’s first hit record in 1923. The vigor
and realism of the rural songs, many lyrics of which were rather impersonal
narratives of tragedies pointing to a stern Calvinist moral, stood in marked
contrast to the often-mawkish sentimentality of much of the popular music of
the day.
So, I guess it did. I just remember Country crooners crossing over to near gospel music. Garth Brooks, “Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.” Tanya Tuckers “Delta Dawn” to name a few. Thankfully, Carrie Underwood is bringing those and others to light on her “Savior” Sirius station.
I just ask that the women of influence please try to think
about the little girls, daughters, mothers and grandmothers when they portray
women in the lime light because in the end you could be causing great harm to
us all.
Rhinestone Cowgirl 