Does a country accent make you a country singer? (pop, rock)

TheBig3 · 03-07-2006, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowe

However, you did come out sounding like an elitist a-hole.

(Note: I never called you one, I was just observing that you came off like one - in my opinion - to whoever it was that said they liked Old School country)

You were very condescending to that person - calling their idea of music damaged - basing this on 2 lines of non-formal writing. I hate when people think they are the sole possessors of some great tome of musical knowledge. I hate elitists.

First of all, it was Murder Junkie who probably can take it. Secondly, he was decrying the authenticity of someone as a country singer depending on geograhpic unbringing. That might be one of the more prejudicial things you could possibly think. Something someone has no control over should not be the basis for their ability to do something. if this makes me elitist *******, then yes, I am one.

Secondly, im sure you write much more than an English/Communications major. We won't refute this any longer, I'll take our qualifications to PM because I think there irrelevent.

The reason I brought up your lack of musical reasoning (and you're doing it again) is because I made sound arguments you have yet to refute. What you're essentially doing is saying "I have nothing to say about that" and you ignore it and say comments like "No, jimmy rodgers made country."

In my opinion, you're an elitist ******* for thinking that, because it was born in the south, your implication is the same as Junkies. I think you're elitist for your "let's clear this up" attitude. I think you're elitist for saying "country is a joke stained by pop music"

My original point was as valid then as it is now, potentially more so now that you've joined in the chorus with Junkie.

I live in Boston, so clearly I don't have the potential to be as good a country artist as you, born in georgia?

I want to go on a tirade here about how being from the north makes me better at doing innumerate things. I want to do this to prove my point and make you see how insane it looks when the shoe is on the other foot. I'll express forbarence here because lets keep it about Country Music.

Two Final Notes:
Nice work boozy, this is the most amount of posts in the country forum in forever.
Regardless of what it may look like I've said here, Im still looking at country as a musical style, born mostly outside of the US and focusing on slide instruments, sustained notes, and twang.