Previously, I've posted on the "First Day The Music Died"--the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper--and what I called the "Second Day The Music Died"--the plane crash that killed Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas. In my view, there's a "Third Day The Music Died," not as tragic when actual lives of gifted artists were lost; rather, a big nail in the coffin for real country music. It's the day, back in 2005, that Trace Adkins released, "Honky Tonk, Badonkadonk," a billion-selling record. Per the internet, Jamey Johnson, who co-wrote the song, the idea for "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" came when Johnson and two of his friends were watching a young woman dancing at a club. Badonkadonk is urban slang for shapely female buttocks. Within an hour, the three had written the song." Frankly, that's four times longer than I thought it had taken. A record executive summed up the song this way, "We knew it was a magical song, but we didn't know it was this magical." Obviously, the magic has gone over my head. Ironically, I heard of the song after seeing Adkins on "The Apprentice" (the first and last time I watched it) and thinking this guy's pretty cool. I look him up on YouTube and found this song.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with putting out magical songs like this. It's seems it's what a majority of Americans want. Just, PLEASE DON'T CALL IT COUNTRY, BECAUSE IT'S NOT.
I agree completely. The Nashville music industry is doing what they need to do to sell lots of music, but I don't call it country either. I call the music that comes out of Nashville "pop country". For my tastes, the best music comes out of Austin these days.
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