It's funny how he started talking about country music which in my opinion has pretty much fallen the same way the other forms of pop music have. I don't hear a lot of diversity anymore as the majority pretty much sounds like warmed over Eagles. It's all pretty cookie-cutter and they are as interested in the bottom line as any other form. Then again, I guess that's why they call it the music business.
He seems to talk about "country music" as if it came from somewhere outside the music industry to fill the roots music void created by the abuses and short-sidedness of the corporate offices. But the country genre is a big player in the same game, and suffers, in my opinion, from the same symptoms as pop, rock, hip-hop, etc... Maybe more so.