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Originally Posted by Rick and Roll
Spaz I disagree vehemently with your statement about Keith Urban et al. Country music is not country music anymore. It's pop. Keith Urban is a pop artist that sounds country. Country has invaded the fabric of America (like Nascar) to the point that the accepatable muzak is Country Pop. Go into any supermarket, doctor's office etc. You'll hear it. Country is now Mainstream.
I agree with Sharc. Peter Gabriel using Youssou N'dour on vocals does not make him a World artist. Such bullshit these terms...I still don't know what the hell "smart pop" is...
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1. I know that Country music today isn't the same thing as country in the 50s and 60s. We all know that, but that's not the point. The point is today's country music is an established style and Keith Urban does it' so he's country, place of origin being irrelevant. And Peter Gabriel using Youssou N'dour does not make him a world artist - agreed - but it does make him "world influenced" or something like that. He's not world, but he's "whatever" with a little world music thrown in. We do this every day with other styles of music: "Oh it's sort of a hard rock sound with a little jazz." That's not a problem at all, but OOOOOH, as soon as it's "a little world" music that's thrown in, now we have issues.
2. "smart pop" - I didn't intend that to read as a genre, just a description. Britney Spear's music I would not describe as smart pop, but Peter Gabriel I would. It's poppy music that has an intellectual appeal. Top 40 right now: Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" is smart pop - again, as a descriptor, not as a genre. It's pop that is smart, clever, really well done.