That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.
I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.
I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.