The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.
I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!
When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.
There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.
There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.
With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.
I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those were my main influences.
The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
My life is truly pop country.
It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
I love country; I'm gonna do a country solo album at one point just 'cause. I'm a big fan of Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Rascal Flatts, even though that's more pop. I grew up on country.
I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
