RACIALIZING COUNTRY MUSIC?
The race-baiters and agitators are at it again. This time they are suggesting that country music is inherently racist and reflective of a white racist society.
What the race-hustlers don’t seem to understand is that songs like Mickey Guyton’s "Black Like Me" or "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" are simply part of the ethos of country music, a guiding belief in freedom, the God-given right to feel the way you feel and to describe that emotional impact within a song. An anthem to the “live and let live crowd.”
Country music’s roots lie in its story-telling powers within the ballads, folk songs, and popular songs of the English, Scots, and Irish settlers of the Appalachians and other parts of the South. Songs of hardship and oppression are nothing new and to find themes of the blues or other genres embedded in country music is not unusual.
What is the woke communist commentariat trying to say?
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Mickey Guyton Takes On the Overwhelming Whiteness of Country Music In early June, 2020, a week after the murder of George Floyd, the country singer Mickey Guyton released “Black Like Me,” a tender piano ballad about deep and relentless racial alienation. [OCS: Country music has always been about joy, pathos, protest, and conflict. The key to success is to evoke emotion in the listener and motivate them to support the genre, artist, and music. The subject matter is not as important as the emotion it evokes.] Her voice is velvety and propulsive, and when she leans into a big note it can feel cool and bracing, like sticking your head out the window of a moving car. She wrote “Black Like Me” in 2019. “The common response from people in Nashville was ‘I need to sit with this for a minute,’ ” Guyton, who is thirty-seven, told me recently. “It made people uncomfortable. Nobody was really writing songs like that in the country format.” [OCS: To any songwriter or performer/songwriter artist, this attitude is not uncommon in an industry where hundreds of people pitch what they believe is the next bestseller to record executives. Those in A&R (Artists and Repertoire) who act as talent scouts, plan the development of the artist, the commercialization of their ability and songs, and act as a liaison between the artist and the record label, are to some degree putting their reputations on the line with each artist and song recommended to the label. They may be somewhat timider if they are less experienced or have not generated a sufficient return on the label’s investment. They take comfort in material that fits neatly into a known profit-making category or appears tailored for a particular artist’s repertoire. Like Hollywood, where the losers greatly outnumber the winners, the same applies to Nashville, where talent must be commercially monetized.] When Guyton signed with Universal Music Group, in 2011, she was the only Black woman under contract with a major country-music label. [OCS: What is the author implying. Is the industry racist because the percentage of minority songwriters/performers does not equal the percentage of that minority’s representation in the general population? A call for forced affirmative action like that is being jammed down the throats of the “oh so woke” movie and television industry?] <Source> |
Guyton has a pleasant, if not outstandingly strong or recognizable, country voice. The choice and marketing of her lyrics of victimhood are between herself, her label, and ultimately her audience. She is an easy-listening artist that is perfect for the melodic background music I listen to – without concentrating on the lyrics and meanings. To the extent she allows herself to be manipulated and used by those who hate America, exploit our identities and diversity, and are trying to pitch a false narrative about America and Americans is a shame.
A sample of her performance lyrics…
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"Black Like Me" by American country music artist Mickey Guyton. It was released on June 2, 2020, amidst the George Floyd protests.
[OCS: Notice the modest universalism of the lyrics. Remove race and substitute any other minority or even the Appalachian children, and it still makes sense. ] Guyton wrote “Black Like Me” with Nathan Chapman, Fraser Churchill, and Emma Davidson Dillon, at a writing retreat hosted by Warner Chappell Music. "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" by American country music artist Mickey Guyton which was released on March 6, 2020 as the first single from her third EP Bridges. She thinks life is fair and God hears every prayer But what are you gonna tell her when she's wrong? Do you just let her pretend that she can be the president? What are you gonna tell her when she's wrong? Do you tell her not to fight? What are you gonna tell her? [OCS: Again, notice the modest universalism of the lyrics.] Lyrics are copyrighted material and are reproduced for commentary and analysis under fair use provisions. |
Bottom line…
I love country music. I love America. And I hate those progressive communist democrats attempting to destroy America from within by destroying our Constitution, the rule of law, and our culture. Do not let anyone racialize country music or the people who enjoy it, especially those trying to pervert country music to support their un-American and overtly racist bullshit.
Give them the big middle finger while singing, “Why baby, why? Cry baby, cry.”
Screw with country and watch middle America rise up and kick your elitist asses to the curb and into the gutter where you belong.
Best wishes to Mickey, her songwriting, and her music career.
-- steve
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