Anyone else following this, Lil Nas X (I had never heard of him before this) has a song that originally debuted at 19 on the Billboard Top 100 Chart was pulled for not being country enough. If you ask me, that song isn't country at all, much like most of the Billboard Top 100 Country, but I digress.
Billboard says it was pulled for not being country enough, but those backing the song say it is just as country as, say, Florida Georgia Line (Vomit on my chest), and it was pulled because he is black. Here is a Twitter Thread on it:
Now, does country music need to support more black artists? Yes they do, I think that Charlie Crockett is one of the best country singers out there today, but no one knows who he is because he plays real country. What bothers me about this dudes Tweets are that he ignores the fact that Charley Pride is one of the most successful Country Artists in history when he mentations AA's who have had #1 Country Songs (Pride had like 30 of them).
Country Radio still pretty much sucks, Nashville is basically trash, and it is an interesting story. I still stand by what Steve Earle says about modern country radio music:
"They’re just doing hip-hop for people who are afraid of black people"
Billboard says it was pulled for not being country enough, but those backing the song say it is just as country as, say, Florida Georgia Line (Vomit on my chest), and it was pulled because he is black. Here is a Twitter Thread on it:
Now, does country music need to support more black artists? Yes they do, I think that Charlie Crockett is one of the best country singers out there today, but no one knows who he is because he plays real country. What bothers me about this dudes Tweets are that he ignores the fact that Charley Pride is one of the most successful Country Artists in history when he mentations AA's who have had #1 Country Songs (Pride had like 30 of them).
Country Radio still pretty much sucks, Nashville is basically trash, and it is an interesting story. I still stand by what Steve Earle says about modern country radio music:
"They’re just doing hip-hop for people who are afraid of black people"
