Comments on: Martina McBride – “Ride”

By: nm

nm — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:46:44 +0000

Jon, I’ll happily substitute “over-the-hill-or-no-longer-successful” for “no-longer-successful.”

By: Razor X

Razor X — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:57:13 +0000

“Wild Rebel Rose” is her latest victim song; just the latest incarnation of “Concrete Angel”, “God’s Will”, etc. It’s getting pretty old hat by now. It may not sound like the pop that’s played today, but it certainly doesn’t sound like country and it’s definitely overproduced.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:47:57 +0000

ahh well “Wild Rebel Rose” and “Sunny Side Up” don’t sound like pop songs, at least the pop that’s played today.

By: Razor X

Razor X — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:45:05 +0000

Yeah, you’re right. “Ride” is the only one that’s there currently. A few weeks ago there were 3 or 4 tracks — “Ride”, “Wild Rebel Rose” and another one that I think was called “Sunny Side Up” or something like that. We were discussing them a bit at y Kind of Country.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:34:00 +0000

That’s funny. I only see “Ride” from her current album on her myspace page.

By: Razor X

Razor X — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:29:21 +0000

The tracks she has on her MySpace page are anything but good. Just the same old overproduced pop.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:42:06 +0000

Regardless of what’s country or not (based on opinions), Martina’s upcoming album is quite good and will surprise many.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:14:40 +0000

Whoops, sorry, J. R. …

By: Paula_W

Paula_W — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:03:34 +0000

I think there are “shades” of country, just like there are shades of blue. We could all look at the exact same object and some of us would call it blue, some teal, others azure, and so on. Then there’s purple. Well, purple is made of blue and red, but is it really a shade of blue? And at what shade does it become mostly red and only a little blue? Same with country. We’ll never all agree.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:34:25 +0000

Well, no, Razor, it wasn’t answered, not unless you believe that restating a proposition – and a circular one at that – is the same as explaining it.

And J.D., with all due respect, that’s a bumper sticker, not a conceptual framework.

For someone who’s been around country music for a few decades, this discussion has a powerful scent of deja vu, compounded by the irony that resides in the fact that in the past, some of the very same artists you hold up as archetypically country were held to be on the wrong side of purportedly easy-to-see country/pop and country/rock divides.