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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I haven't ever looked into the history of it or a holistic view or anything, but I always blamed Shania Twain. Once she crossed over it all seemed to go to shit. Garth was at least country. Shania went all pop and then the copy cats did too. I can for sure see Garth influences in the sister****ers now that just puke out word salads with some combination of: truck, girl, beer. And those word salad songs definitely blow ass, but chasing pop audiences are the worst IMO.
That's obviously over simplified, and probably it's nobody's "fault". There are just a lot of people in the US that like and will pay for shit music.
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Garth didn't ruin country music. His music provided several all-time classics to the canon. If Waylon sang, "Too Much Young (To Feel This Damn Old), people are calling it one of the best ever. Garth's music had some several influenced but he mostly kept it country.
Shania is where it derailed. She was pure pop and it sold well.
I honestly didn't see much of Garth in the Bro-Country singers. His music never dipped into checklist songs. Maybe, American Honky Bar Association, but that was a blue collar anthem.
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