Every country music song is the same

[Urethra Franklin]

Well, the scientists at NPR are through the looking glass here, people.

Will you look at this shit?



I'm not sure if I can ever look Garth Brooks in the eye again.

www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376145745/you-know-exactly-what-these-six-country-songs-have-in-common

[DSR]

Yeah, just saw this on Facebook. Made me want to punch somebody.

[Cela]

Ha!

[Digital Witness]

This doesn't surprise me at all.

[Knailsic From Now On]

Bro country is the worst thing to happen to country since Hank Williams' death

[A Platypus Rave]

You could probably do this with a lot of songs especially ones that use the pop chords.

[Mackenzie Gorn]

Woah, Woah, Woah. People still listen to NPR?

[Hit Girl]

Songs within a certain genre will have commonalities. That's why its called a genre.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

It is kind of like the Linkin Park, Nickleback and Creed ones that have been done, except they just laid 2-5 songs on top of each other and didn't isolate at all. And the songs still all sounded the same. Though for one band, maybe sounding very similar is more forgivable.

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

No way man.

There's no way you can tell me "With My Baby Tonight" is anything like "Rap is Crap".

[Deleted]

This only applies to the dudebro crap that's invaded NashVegas lately.

The country I listen to sounds nothing remotely like this junk.

[J Lee O'Brien]

Jan 10, 2015 1:48:13 GMT -5 Mackenzie Gorn said:

Woah, Woah, Woah. People still listen to NPR?

Preset station #1, and I rarely change the station...save for Saturday nights. Nothing against "The Thistle and Shamrock" or "Bluegrass Breakdown" but those don't really capture my attention.

[Danimal]

Jan 10, 2015 1:27:05 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

You could probably do this with a lot of songs especially ones that use the pop chords.

This

[Milkman Norm]

Jan 10, 2015 1:48:13 GMT -5 Mackenzie Gorn said:

Woah, Woah, Woah. People still listen to NPR?

Yeah. Wait, Wait Don't Tell me is Awesome. As is Radiolab. As is This American Life as is...

[stealthamo]

Jan 10, 2015 1:27:05 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

You could probably do this with a lot of songs especially ones that use the pop chords.

Hell, The Axis of Awesome did that 5 years ago. *language warning*

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Jan 10, 2015 3:01:03 GMT -5 J Lee O'Brien said:

Jan 10, 2015 1:48:13 GMT -5 Mackenzie Gorn said:

Woah, Woah, Woah. People still listen to NPR?

Preset station #1, and I rarely change the station...save for Saturday nights. Nothing against "The Thistle and Shamrock" or "Bluegrass Breakdown" but those don't really capture my attention.

What is wrong with you? Bluegrass is awesome.

[Deleted]

Going to hazard a guess that these songs are all I-IV-V progessions in 3/4 or 4/4 time. Of course they'd sound similar.

[HMARK Center]

Jan 10, 2015 13:51:48 GMT -5 @akeem said:

Going to hazard a guess that these songs are all I-IV-V progessions in 3/4 or 4/4 time. Of course they'd sound similar.

Dude, it's more than that: same dynamics and crescendos, eerily similar drum fills, almost identical guitar solos...then they play all on top of one another and they are, truly, exactly the same.

Pop music is repetitive, no doubt about it, and I'd bet a similar study of other types of pop might find something similar, but this is something else.

[A Platypus Rave]

Jan 10, 2015 13:40:58 GMT -5 stealthamo said:

Jan 10, 2015 1:27:05 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

You could probably do this with a lot of songs especially ones that use the pop chords.

Hell, The Axis of Awesome did that 5 years ago. *language warning*

I remembered that after I posted... Also they have multiple versions of the same thing
Language Warning

[Bo Rida]

What's dudebro country? That's a term I usually associate with videogames and can't get my head around it in relation to country music.

That said I only know a tiny bit about country music anyway, mostly old outlaw country stuff and that doesn't sound like that video anyway.