Wes,
What I was really speaking to was your perception that "everything was still bro-country" and the view points you had. When you break most music down, it is about members of the opposite sex.That is about 98% of music, because it is what most people who LISTEN to music are into. You see, I think that songwriters who have come into this over the past 15 or so years, who I refer to as "living room" writers, have a VERY mistaken point of view when it comes to music. Almost every lyric forum, outside song, songwriters forums, contests, REVERB NATION, YOU TUBE, FACEBOOK, you name it, hearing the TONE, subject matter, and attitudes of their writers/artists are whiny, negative, plodding, meandering pieces of mediocrity. And of course, these are people who are always upset about what is on the radio, always think the "music business sucks", etc. I tend to think that THEY are the ones who SUCK.
But I also have huge sense of music history trends and the overall industry in terms of THE AUDIENCES. So that is what I was talking about. When you look at the ACTUAL songs that are on the charts, and find out it is not as pervasive or what you thought it was, how does that affect how you look at the overall music business? Not nessasarily, to change your writing or anything, but how you look at the actual business.
That is what I was interested in.
MAB
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