Warning, genre rant
Collin Raye takes on Bro Country
Op-Ed on Fox News' site, if you all can handle that.
Collin is callin' on country music powers that be to get off the Bro Country Bandwagon- following is an excerpt
This strikes a chord with me. I grew up on Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt, Collin Raye, Tracy Lawrence, Clint Black, Junior Brown, et al. Not to mention the greats like George Strait and Reba. I used to love country music.
Not anymore.
I personally share a lot of those same sentiments. Country's always had the ongoing joke that playing a country song backwards means you get your wife, your truck, and your dog back. Every genre has it's stereotypes, and country music has always had an element of hard drinkin', hard lovin', and 4x4s, but this Bro Country stuff is over the top. It's stereotypical lowbrow tripe.
But, it's a cash cow. People are eating this stuff up by the droves. And that's why it won't go away.
Ok, rant over- for now