In the midst of all this recalibrating, Brantley Gilbert, who's behind some of the brawniest country radio singles of the last half-decade, has declined to budge from the approach that helped propel him from the roster of Average Joes, a scrappy hick-hop label operating on the fringes of the country mainstream, to Valory, an imprint of industry powerhouse Big Machine, and then onto the charts. The momentum in the format has shifted in increasingly diffuse directions - to falsetto-exploiting lovermen sensitive types boy band- style romancers introspective brooders rough-edged, self-aware rogues and temperate neotraditionalists. The perception was that those songs amounted to little more than crass capitalizing on hollow tropes, and over the last year and a half, a significant number of country's male acts - known quantities and newcomers alike - have steered away from bro sensibilities. A few years back, the breezily macho delivery of backwoods come-ons over big, blunted guitar riffs and spindly programmed beats seemed like a reliable and easily replicable formula for hits. Few contemporary country trends in recent memory attracted more dismissive responses than bro country did at its height.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |