Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line Danced on the Grave of Country at Gexa on Saturday

This guy hit the nail on the head.  Their music is so cheesy.  I don't think he was being a jerk.  Country music has gone off the deep end.  It isn't even a recognizable genre on the radio any more.  I know things change.  But this isn't change.  This music is trying to be something besides what it is.  Do they even have a steel guitar or fiddle in the band? 

The singer should have a pleasant singing voice.The singer should be able to sing.The singer should be able to sing without yelling.The singer should be able to sing without pitch correction gadgets.Steel guitar and fiddle must be present.You must be able to hear them dominant in the mix.The drums should not be dominant in the mix.The drummer should stick to the groove without a bunch of happy handing.Absolutely no drum loops or hip hop beats.No guitar wanking.The guitar solo should resemble the melody line.Absolutely no distortion of any kind on any instrument.The beats used will be straight 8's, 2/4 shuffle, 4/4 shuffle or a waltz.No blinking lights on stage.This is a basic criteria for county music.

  Anything else is simply not country music.  It is some perverted interpretation on country music.  If you mute the vocals of any genre you should be able to recognize what genre it is by listening to the music.  If you were to do that with FLG, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Brantley Gilbert, Lady A, Rascal Flatts or most of everything coming out of Nashville you would here Adult Contemporary Pop or Soft Rock.  Just my opinion as a fan of many genres of music.  I'm not saying FGL is bad I am only saying it is pop music.

Everyone  has  the  right  to  say and think  what they want. Don't  be a jerk  and rag on someone  because  they like  or dislike  something  that  you  like  or  dislike . 

I'm going to be as polite as I can, we just buried my Most Amazing Grandma two weeks ago and she was buried in Oklahoma! It was one of the worst weeks of my life! But with your amazingly awful words you expressed, My grandma was from her birth in the dirt. She worked from nothing to everything to Give our family all we have and all we do!

Her funeral we played this amazing song, "Dirt"!

I feel like who ever has enough time to complain about this song has no idea what it is like to not only get their hands dirty but to have a family that built everything from "dirt" & up!

I am sorry but you are truly disrespectful and rude! & I apologize but you must of never had to get your hands in the dirt to do something with your life!

Everybody should rinse this crap out of their mouths by going to the Primus and The Chocolate Factory show at The Majestic on Nov 16th.

Todays country music has nothing to do with Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce or Johnny Cash and Waylon for that matter. All the new country rap crap artists cut their teeth on Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive. That is the root of today's music, not steel guitar and twin fiddles. If George Strait thinks when he sang Murder on Music Row things were bad, today music would it a mass killing.

Think I'd rather re-live the 'Donny and Marie in the Round" concert my sister took me too when I was 16 than sit through this show.

Half of what you hear in every live show is tracked, and by the way its music, it evolves retard. And you still bought a ticket so you can bash someone else's hard work. I went to school for journalism and music business so please report on other things in the music industry that are far more important, like the ongoing issue that music consumers are streaming more than downloading and how to fairly compensate the artists and songwriters. 

artists do not stretch the borders of a musical genre.  if their music stretches beyond the borders, they enter another genre.  country music is country music and this is not country music.  it's very bad 80's rock. 

This was cute and appropriate. Teenage Singer Melody Williamson Calls Out Nashville in “There’s No Country Here”

...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TtSamAaRvg

First Saving Country Music's review of Florida Georgia Line's album now this concert review.  Love it! 

Me and the lady had a blast. A good heatsack, some jarbud and some cold Ultra with the finest in new country. Only a Dave Matthews fan could have a bad time at a rockin' jamfest like this. You must be too old.

This review wins the Internet, today..

You don't like it go to the fucking retirement home ya jackass times change and just cause it isn't your preference in music doesn't mean it's not good and there not artists.. They make a hell of a lot more money than you do I'm quit sure!! And there not twisting anybody's arms to get the fans to pack into the stands!! I'm sure your parents were saying the same things about the music you listened to when you were a kid!! If ya don't like it don't listen to it just makes yourself look even stupider complaining about it!!! Lame jackass!!!!

I am not sure which I enjoyed more, the review or the comments. Thanks Jaime-Paul Falcon! Started my day with a snorting, choking laugh. 

Jaime-Paul Falcon, thank you for your service to our country. You took that grenade like a champ. 

This review had me laughing so hard.

I will 100% agree with you that their music is not country in the country/western sense that you have. Today's country is now country/pop and I'm not saying that's it's right that they changed the way country is but do we really want these guys imaging Hank or Cash? Nah I say let them keep their style of music. You don't have to be such a dick when you're critiquing a show, you lose credibility that way. Now I'll say that I hate the singer that raps in the song "dirt" but it's a catchy song and I can enjoy it for what it is, not what I wish it was. And to your farmer comment, being from a farm doesn't make you country, willie would be turning in his grave hearing you make that comment. And to your concert experience, you went to a show with a crowd obviously too young for yourself, it had nothing to do with the "new age" country crowd, it was you. So get off your soap box and your "back in my day" Rant and open your eyes and quit being so obnoxiously biased.

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Thanks to what I can only describe as a terrible scene control failure, I was at this show, and as funny and well written as this review is, it fails to capture the sheer hopelessness for the future of humanity the experience engendered. One of the loudest audience reactions all night was the whole crowd singing a between-set Journey song in unison, a song that was old by the time the concert goers' parents conceived them to it. The entire show made Beavis & Butthead look like prophets that maybe Mike Judge toned down so as not to cause a panic.

You're an idiot... if you can't appreciate the modern times then get the hell on. You've never been on the back roads of Georgia and can't relate. .. that's your problem, not everyone else's.

I appreciated the honesty of the review until I read some other reviews you have done. Seems like your just a very cynical writer who just wants to rain on the parade. Get off your high horse and loosen up.You have been to a lot of different events, do me a favor and try to enjoy one sometime. Music changes, it evolves over time let it be and let people enjoy the change. I was at the concert tailgating with my friends chugging down those light beers, wearing my white stitched jeans, and looking at all those pretty dolled up women. I enjoyed the hell out of myself with my friends and so did thousand more, but hey you don't know me or where I'm from and I don't know you or where you are from. I hope the next event you attend maybe you can kick back drink god awful wear your fancy pants and enjoy the company you are with for once. Cheers to you!!

*Pedal steel ... 

Thank you for this uncensored review. It makes me feel good to know I'm not alone in my hatred of this repulsive shit.

Hilarious. I like the hoe herder reference.

I am Watermelon Slim, a retired trucker and sawmiller. www.watermelonslim.com is my music site. I have two country CDs you'll like, because they're "old country," plus a bunch more, AND it's all my own.

That grave you're talking about was dug and filled years ago, but the celebrity-making and formula-following processes have undergone great strides in efficiency. 

Of COURSE the fans give no thought to whether the performers are farmers, or truckers, or anything that might give the music some VALIDITY. Them ol' boys 'n girls are jus' partyin' raht on down with that cheap beer. "Youbetcha, dog! Farmers!? Whutnthehell give you THAT idea, dude?"

Hey, at least they were no fights, right?

AMEN!  I have been saying all along that this country-rap sh*t is just that, sh*t!  Leave rapping to the genre that won't make it sound idiotic.  FGL has got to be the douchiest of the douche-canoe new bands.  BLEH!

@lilbo_2001 I totally agree with you on the importance of the shifting infrastructure of the music biz, but there's also a place for opinion pieces about the pop culture of music. I would guess that public opinion about music likely influences what consumers download or stream. I found the article maybe a bit too biting, but none-the-less amusing. It made me curious to check out their music even if I might hate it...not sure if I'll stream or download it though. Not disagreeing with you, just saying that as a music consumer I find value in both journalism and opinion.

@heythere  Agreed. 

@deep-sigh  B-b-b-but I thought you had to be OLD to hate Florida Georgia Line?!?!

@MichaelTwilley  There are 18 and 19 year olds speaking out against this garbage.  You must be in an alcoholic haze to realize this, bro.

You should really proofread your comment before posting it. Turns out you're the one looking like a jackass!

@gladiator2569 "quit sure" - A+, buddy!

the amount of money a performer earns has no bearing on their artistic integrity.

when every song is about getting drunk and hooking up with the opposite sex, you are bound to attract a certain kind of crowd.

@gladiator2569 "quit sure" - A+, buddy! 

also, the amount of money a person makes has no bearing on their artistic success. having songs about more than one topic would be more of a proper measure. 

@gladiator2569 Oh my, where to start...  "If, you, ., because, they're, quite, they're, you, more stupid"  I think you've proven the author's point, bro.

@gladiator2569  yes, times change, but musical genres don't.  artists do NOT stretch musical borders.  if they go beyond the borders they enter another genre.  country music is country music and this is not country music.  it's very bad 80's rock.

@gladiator2569 It's not good. Modern country is like children's music. 

@gladiator2569 Your butchering of the English language just further proves the type of people that dig this abortion of music deemed ever so properly as bro country.

@gladiator2569  Money = talent?  Not so, bro.  Keep chowing down on those Mickey D cheeseburgers. 

@gladiator2569 I'm pretty young, but Florida-Georgia line is indeed terrible. Also, just cause they make money doesn't mean they don't suck. You have terrible priorities, not sucking is way more valuable than money.

@AdamOMalley Willie is not dead! 

@adidasandstructure Country music has a hell of a lot more to appreciating it than knowing the feel of a dirt road. Been on a dirt road? Check. Drank beer on said dirt road? Check. Have actually heard George Jones perform live and in person? Oh, I can check that, can you?

If dirt roads define country for you, you just don't get it. We're the music that gave the world such great lines as "the silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky" and "I'm the seventh out of seven sons my pappy was a pistol I'm a son of a gun"

You just don't get it. Country music means way more than shallow memories of tan legs and cheap beer. 

@adidasandstructure I do not know what's funnier -- the well-written satire in the concert review -- or the fact that you consider this serious business!

@adidasandstructure Well, I've never screwed my sister, but I know it makes for flipper babies like you.

@adidasandstructure Country + Rap = CRAP!!!  

Amen

@Shiner1500  so the important part of the show is get drunk and tailgate.

@bluedemocrat normally we'd delete posts advertising things, but the name Watermelon Slim is so good that I'm going to let this one slide. More power to you, Mr. Watermelon.

@iamjensational Country + rap = Crap

If you choose to then I say go for it. Music, friends, and beer sounds perfect to me!

You ever go to a tailgate at a football game? You ever go to barbaques? Enjoy your life the way you please and I'll do the same

@gavin.cleaver @bluedemocrat

Why thank you, Gavin. I don't care if anybody ever BUYS anything, but if they listen, look and read, I've done my job. I'm just looking for people to know me, not necessarily buy from me. I make my living as a GIGGING musician, not a recording artist, lol. I expect to make another release (my 14th) next year, but most of what I get pressed will be sold at gigs, though I do get quite a bit of radioplay.

I also write op-eds on a news/op-ed site called opednews.com. I receive no compensation from this writing.

Yeah, I'm a bluesman, but I also have two university degrees, one in journalism. I won't work in the lapdog "embedded" media, so I write and sing my lyrics, and my geopolitical analysis, from the outside.

I'm too old to be a 9-5er, and too radical ever to join anything remotely like a corporation. Nonetheless, I must perforce be an entrepreneur, so products I must have.

I am obsolete enough that I DON'T REALLY WANT to embrace and maximize the effects of social-media marketing, or the technological stage that enables people to buy a song in mere electronic impulses, without ever actually meeting the artist in the old way, through a solid THING-- an LP, or CD, or DVD or what have you.

But I do want people to hear my music. Thank you for not deleting it in the first place, and for your courteous way of bringing it to my attention. I am no scammer, solicitor nor troll, I assure you,

Watermelon Slim