Modern Country Music Lyrics still retain the art of storytelling

Written by Syd Johnson


Country music lyrics are blasting on urban music stations as younger American trying to escaperepparttar emergence of bad pop and even awful pop music turn to this stable genre. Country music is currently gaining on rock asrepparttar 109964 second most popular music format on American radio stations. It is right behind hip hop in terms of people’s ability to identify a feel, a demographic, and a sense of rebellion when they hearrepparttar 109965 lyrics on many songs.

If you look back into early to mid 90’s it seemed that country music was onrepparttar 109966 decline. In fact, if you look at some ofrepparttar 109967 popular hits from Shania Twain and even “I will always love you” by Whitney Houston, country music lyrics could only be heard by crossover pop artists. I’m sure that many inrepparttar 109968 industry thought this would berepparttar 109969 end of great commercial successes for modern country artists.

Fortunately,repparttar 109970 Nashville establishment held on to their traditions and developed a new set of country artists that would appeal to young urban listeners.

So why didn’t they stray and turn country music into a subgenre of crappy pop?

The answer lies inrepparttar 109971 lessons ofrepparttar 109972 1980’s. Country music went through a moment asrepparttar 109973 “it music” duringrepparttar 109974 early to mid 1980’s with detrimental results. There were more stars, doing more tours and making more money than ever before, butrepparttar 109975 most popular country music lyrics atrepparttar 109976 time did not reflectrepparttar 109977 geographic sensibilities ofrepparttar 109978 south.

iTunes tops 200 million downloads, Partners with Satellite Radio

Written by Syd Johnson


It seems that Apple is in talks with Sirius Satellite Radio to make their streaming broadcasts available onrepparttar iPod. This is something that a lot of online music fans have been looking forward to for some time. Satellite radio customers loverepparttar 109963 music variety because they can go for days without hearingrepparttar 109964 same songs on rotation. This is in stark contrast to commercial radio stations, where you can hearrepparttar 109965 same song every couple of hours and on multiple stations inrepparttar 109966 same market.

Many think this pairing is just a rumor since iPods are not designed for this type of function and it would probably require a much larger hard drive and a much larger iPod case to be able to carryrepparttar 109967 streams.

Another functionality that would also require some tweaks isrepparttar 109968 ability to record satellite stream directly ontorepparttar 109969 iPods. The whole purpose ofrepparttar 109970 iPod isrepparttar 109971 storage capacity andrepparttar 109972 ability to make music portable.

Even if satellite broadcasts were available, ifrepparttar 109973 storage functionality is not included, customers could easily turn away from it and back to streaming radio only.

Since iPods are in short supply right now because so many customers are trying to get one, imagine whatrepparttar 109974 market frenzy would look like if you add radio transmission receivers onto it.

Both XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio with over 4 million subscribers have been looking into ways that they can merge their popular streaming radio functionality with a host of gadgets to give their customers more options and to expand their subscription base.

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