If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway.
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If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway. Big cars are a staple of this musical genre.
I think we need a new musical genre where songs mentions bicycles and public transportation so often that every parody of it will always mention it.
I propose to call the genre "city".
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If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway. Big cars are a staple of this musical genre.
I think we need a new musical genre where songs mentions bicycles and public transportation so often that every parody of it will always mention it.
I propose to call the genre "city".
@forteller NEW BIKE DAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZxINNzLJg
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If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway. Big cars are a staple of this musical genre.
I think we need a new musical genre where songs mentions bicycles and public transportation so often that every parody of it will always mention it.
I propose to call the genre "city".
@forteller I think I could write a lyric like that. But not sure what the genre would actually sound like… like country blues or more punky or what? What does "city" sound like?
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@forteller I think I could write a lyric like that. But not sure what the genre would actually sound like… like country blues or more punky or what? What does "city" sound like?
@tanketom Yes, that is the big question! How does even a new musical genre come to be? I can't imagine it happens too often, at least not those who go on to become hugely popular. And how did the rural parts of USA decide that country music, with those specific sounds and melodies and lyrical themes, was their jam? How could one replicate that process for people living in cities?
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@tanketom Yes, that is the big question! How does even a new musical genre come to be? I can't imagine it happens too often, at least not those who go on to become hugely popular. And how did the rural parts of USA decide that country music, with those specific sounds and melodies and lyrical themes, was their jam? How could one replicate that process for people living in cities?
@forteller Today's Carbrain Country is just commercial pop with a slight blues twang, not that much left of old country and western.
(And we already have "urban" music, but I don't think I should be the one making an urban song.)
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@forteller Today's Carbrain Country is just commercial pop with a slight blues twang, not that much left of old country and western.
(And we already have "urban" music, but I don't think I should be the one making an urban song.)
@tanketom @forteller I'd argue most music is urban, since most new music is made in urban environments. People are making new stuff all the time everywhere, and country is based on stuff which also to a large degree came out of cities. I'm arguing the problem of making "urban" music is like fish discussing how they could create wet stuff to after being told of wet towels. We are already surrounded by "city" or "urban".
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@tanketom Yes, that is the big question! How does even a new musical genre come to be? I can't imagine it happens too often, at least not those who go on to become hugely popular. And how did the rural parts of USA decide that country music, with those specific sounds and melodies and lyrical themes, was their jam? How could one replicate that process for people living in cities?
@forteller @tanketom one theory of genres that makes sense to me is that they're not defined by the music as such, but which audience listens to them. so country music is whatever country music fans like.
which means a new genre requires a new audience.
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@tanketom @forteller I'd argue most music is urban, since most new music is made in urban environments. People are making new stuff all the time everywhere, and country is based on stuff which also to a large degree came out of cities. I'm arguing the problem of making "urban" music is like fish discussing how they could create wet stuff to after being told of wet towels. We are already surrounded by "city" or "urban".
@Lemmus @forteller I was more talking about that "urban music" is a term usually meant for different genres of African-American music
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@forteller @tanketom one theory of genres that makes sense to me is that they're not defined by the music as such, but which audience listens to them. so country music is whatever country music fans like.
which means a new genre requires a new audience.
@bjoernstaerk @forteller But some genres have more subgenres than they have bands!
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If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway. Big cars are a staple of this musical genre.
I think we need a new musical genre where songs mentions bicycles and public transportation so often that every parody of it will always mention it.
I propose to call the genre "city".
@forteller If you need band names, there are some good suggestions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BikeMechanics/comments/1m81ksq/what_would_your_bike_shop_band_name_and_genre_be/
