Hick hop

[Mae Band]

Well theres this new guy with this song called i play chicken with the train and its by cowboy troy. Ill tell you what, if this catches on it will be a sad day for country music and im prayin it dosent. do you guys feel the same cause i not into it at all.

 

[dmiller]

No -- I've not heard it (I listen to bluegrass more than country) -- but that sounds like it is no worse than that farce of a song "save a horse, ride the cowboy".

Country music is falling into a deep abyss, from which it may never recover, if songs like those are touted as *country*.

David

 

[Mae Band]

well big and rich, the same guys that do save a horse, ride a cowboy do the chorus of chicken with the train. its a sad day for country if this catches on!

 

[TwinCrier]

I just looked up the video on Launch. I haven't heard it on the radio. I can't make out the lyrics too well, but there was somthing about Tim McGraw in it. I think.
I don't care for it. It takes more than a coybow hat and a steel guitar to turn rap into country.

 

[Redneck]

No -- I've not heard it (I listen to bluegrass more than country) -- but that sounds like it is no worse than that farce of a song "save a horse, ride the cowboy".

Country music is falling into a deep abyss, from which it may never recover, if songs like those are touted as *country*.

David

It's worse that "Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy."

That's saying something too.

It's a rap music video that tries to thinly diguise itself as country music.

Think of it this way. Ted Nugent is easier listening than that song.

 

[lillybug0514]

Yall guys are the greatest..... I know tons of people who like it, and hink I am crazy for not

I am so glad that I am not the only one.... althought I did hear something about the song being like #2 on the charts a while back

 

[DixieBelle]

I'm riding the fence on this one...I kinda like Cowboy Troy- wouldn't call his music exactly "country" and certainly wouldn't want all country music to sound like his, but I don't have a problem with it. Classic/traditional country is my alltime favorite type of music, but I don't have a problem with a little variety within the country realm. Now if Alan Jackson or George Strait started rapping or doing "Hick Hop" music- that'd just be wrong!

 

[yella]

All I can say is UGH!!!!

 

[kleptobismol]

nuh uh.

big and rich are awesome!! they're putting a whole new kind of country into the industry and drawing in different listeners.

i love "rollin (ballad of big and rich)" its soooo good. its just like what they say at the beginning.

"Country boys don't rock and roll
Yeah the record man told me so
Yeah you'll never get it on the radio

 

[SpaceProg]

Sounds like said song would irk me as much as that "Hillbillies Love it in the Hay" song... eesh. >_<

 

[Mae Band]

i dont know a single person who likes big and rich or "hick hop". im pretty sure and prayin that there both gonna die out soon.

 

[Mae Band]

and i cant stand that hillbillies love it in the hay song either but thats a whole nother topic.

 

[kleptobismol]

i know lots of ppl who like big and rich.

how could you not?

 

[Mae Band]

i.e. save a horse ride a cowboy video.
its dumb

 

[theredfool]

y'all are insane "hillbillys", "save a horse (ride a cowboy), and "i play chicken with the train" are the best songs i've heard since i first heard "ring of fire"

 

[SpaceProg]

The only Big And Rich song I think I really like that much is "Holy Water".

 

[MrsSeptemberPenguin]

I agree, what is country music turning into. Who are cowboy troy, and big and rich? I really don't like them. Their songs are really no good!

 

[Mae Band]

I hear "bands" like this are the reason that respectable artists are losing their contracts!

 

[Maeyken]

I don't think it should be considered country (In my opinion it's definitely not country music) but I do like that "I play chicken with the train" song! (I don't usually admit it though!) :O)

 

[MrJim]

It's just business-givin' the people what they want. If ya like it buy it and if ya don't skip it.

Country music has been around for a long time and goes through it's fads and phases. I remember sometime (when was that--late 80's maybe?) when country music was declared dead and then it was resurrected and had huge growth.

Besides, it ain't really music unless there's a banjo...