2013 CMA Awards

• gut

  wildcats20;1531256 wrote:There is not one thing wrong with that woman.
  
  

  deformed knees
• vball10set

  :rolleyes:
• Tiernan

  But o m f g if she was on em in front of you!
• se-alum

  

  Country music has the hottest women in any genre of music.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  se-alum;1530998 wrote:Dynamite drop-in.

  GoChiefs;1530999 wrote:It literally doesn't.

  Not trying to piss ppl off, but it didn't sound different to me.
• se-alum

  

  Commander of Awesome;1531483 wrote:Not trying to piss ppl off, but it didn't sound different to me.

  I just disagree. He sounds nothing like Luke Bryan or FGL, which is what is passing for country music these days. I'd put him much closer to Jamey Johnson than any of those guys.
• Ironman92

  

  I liked both the pop and the country from about 1991-2005 (probably actually liked country better about 1/2 of those years)
  
  Garth became huge in 1990.....his stuff was all country and after about 1994 he took a bit of a break from everything......that stuff never crossed over, some of it may have sounded popish....but it didn't crossover charts. Billy Ray Cyrus crossed over then more than Garth. Goofy achy breaky was 1991 and crossed over some because it was so damn big.
  
  The first crossover at that time was actually Restless Heart "When She Cries" in about 1993....that song was huge on country and AC. AC is basically softer Pop....but radio huge. Most of the country crossovers were AC mainly. Shania Twain's 2nd CD had about 13 released top 10 country songs and about 1/2 of them hit it pretty big on the AC/Pop stations and charts about 6 months after the country run. Faith Hill and Lonestar followed suit with a few songs each, but more AC than pop.
• GoChiefs

  

  Commander of Awesome;1531483 wrote:Not trying to piss ppl off, but it didn't sound different to me.

  Take the 3 biggest male country artists, right now, probably Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Blake Shelton. Mason sounds nothing like them. Sure, theres a couple people he might sound like, but he's definitely different than most country music right now.
• GoChiefs

  

  Ironman92;1531660 wrote:I liked both the pop and the country from about 1991-2005 (probably actually liked country better about 1/2 of those years)
  
  Garth became huge in 1990.....his stuff was all country and after about 1994 he took a bit of a break from everything......that stuff never crossed over, some of it may have sounded popish....but it didn't crossover charts. Billy Ray Cyrus crossed over then more than Garth. Goofy achy breaky was 1991 and crossed over some because it was so damn big.
  
  The first crossover at that time was actually Restless Heart "When She Cries" in about 1993....that song was huge on country and AC. AC is basically softer Pop....but radio huge. Most of the country crossovers were AC mainly. Shania Twain's 2nd CD had about 13 released top 10 country songs and about 1/2 of them hit it pretty big on the AC/Pop stations and charts about 6 months after the country run. Faith Hill and Lonestar followed suit with a few songs each, but more AC than pop.

  The Dance, in '89, was Garths first crossover hit. Then No Fences, released in '90, shot up to #3 on the pop charts.
  
  The crossover thing goes way back to the 60's. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline were probably the first biggest country names to cross over. John Denver and Glen Campbell in the 70's, etc. Crossover has always been there, but Garth is the one that took that to a whole new level.
• Ironman92

  

  I'd like to know what particular charts because I actually listened to those Casey Casem and Rick Dees countdowns.....there was no Garth.
• Ironman92

  

  Billboard or what?
  
  I can't find a scratch of evidence of Garth on those countdowns except for a #30 song in 1994 that I never heard of.
  
  I listened to 3 local stations that played pop music and WNCI and 92x in Columbus when I could pick it up.....never did I hear a Garth song then. No Fences was one of his albums....he didn't release a No Fences song.
• Ironman92

  

  I found your stuff on Billboard
  
  I always thought the Hot 200 Albums was simply the top selling albums period.....country, pop, rock, rap whatever and all of those are always listed based on album sales........country has it's own billboard category and if any make it on the overall 200 chart....well they are a top the country album sales. Garth was the first in a long time to sell those numbers and pop people were starting to buy for sure.....but his songs then 100% played on the country stations.
• GoChiefs

  

  "Before Brooks, it was inconceivable for a country artist to go multi-platinum. He shattered that barrier in 1991, when his second album, No Fences, began its chart domination, and its follow-up, Ropin' the Wind, became the first country album to debut at the top of the pop charts; No Fences would eventually sell a record-shattering 13 million copies. After Garth, country music had successfully carved a permanent place for itself on the pop charts. In the process, it lost a lot of the traditionalism that had always been its hallmark, but that is precisely why Brooks is important."
  
  http://www.cmt.com/artists/garth-brooks/biography/
• Ironman92

  

  
• Ironman92

  

  GoChiefs;1531668 wrote:The Dance, in '89, was Garths first crossover hit. Then No Fences, released in '90, shot up to #3 on the pop charts.
  
  The crossover thing goes way back to the 60's. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline were probably the first biggest country names to cross over. John Denver and Glen Campbell in the 70's, etc. Crossover has always been there, but Garth is the one that took that to a whole new level.

  Where does it say #3 on the "Pop" charts?
• GoChiefs

  

  His follow-up album, No Fences, was released in 1990 and spent 23 weeks as number-one on the Billboard country music chart.[20] The album also reached number 3 on the pop chart, and eventually became Brooks's highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of 17 million.[21] It contained what would become Brooks's signature song, the blue collar anthem "Friends in Low Places", as well as two other Brooks classics, the dramatic and controversial "The Thunder Rolls" and the philosophically ironic "Unanswered Prayers".
  
  It was on Garth's wiki page, so take it for what it's worth I guess.
  
  Even with being #3 on the Billboard 200 proves his crossover success. You aren't reaching #3 as a country artist in the early 90's without that pop crossover. Country just wasn't as big back then as it is today.
• Ironman92

  

  Yeah.....I'm not disagreeing on him drawing in outside of country (you can't)....but his videos and concerts were cowboy hat, ridiculous country jeans and shirts, belts, boots.....I mean silly country.
  
  I still say and it even doesn't disagree on billboard site that the Hot 200 albums is just that, the top selling albums. Billy Ray with the biggest hick, hill jack, country line dance sensation spent 17 weeks at #1 on that albums chart.....but it was all country. That Hot 200 has rap, rock, metal.....everything from N'sync/New Kids to Dr Dre on this chart.
• GoChiefs

  

  Ironman92;1531715 wrote:Yeah.....I'm not disagreeing on him drawing in outside of country (you can't)....but his videos and concerts were cowboy hat, ridiculous country jeans and shirts, belts, boots.....I mean silly country.
  
  I still say and it even doesn't disagree on billboard site that the Hot 200 albums is just that, the top selling albums. Billy Ray with the biggest hick, hill jack, country line dance sensation spent 17 weeks at #1 on that albums chart.....but it was all country. That Hot 200 has rap, rock, metal.....everything from N'sync/New Kids to Dr Dre on this chart.

  And I'm not disagreeing that either. Like I said though, to reach #3 in the early 90's and obtain those kind of record sales he did, it's because of the crossover. I'm not really sure what you are debating at this point. Lol We pretty much agree. I didn't say he made pop music. Hus songs just appealed to those that listened to that genre. It's pretty popular opinion that Garth paved the way for the type of country music we have today.
• Ironman92

  

  I think country music changed a good bit in the last 5-6 years. Not a big fan of it now. I like Urban and Keith consistently....much of Blake, but little else.
  
  I liked it the most from about 97-03 when it was pretty much pop music....but mostly on country radio.
  
  
  So to sum everything up....Carrie Underwood is fucking hot
• OSH

  

  Chris Gaines?
• iclfan2

  

  Ironman92;1531807 wrote:I think country music changed a good bit in the last 5-6 years. Not a big fan of it now. I like Urban and Keith consistently....much of Blake, but little else.
  
  I liked it the most from about 97-03 when it was pretty much pop music....but mostly on country radio.

  Wait what? You like the poppy country music? And Keith urban?
• Ironman92

  

  Yeah......I'm the only person in the world.
  
  DGAF how to get from rain to whiskey and Miranda Lambert can kiss my ass.