LORETTA
LYNN
DECLARES
COUNTRY
MUSIC
“DEAD”
L
oretta Lynn stirred
up some controversy
when she was a guest
on Martina McBride’s
Vocal Point podcast and
declared country music to be dead.
“They’ve already let it [die],” Lynn
told McBride about the current state of
country music. “I think it’s dead. I think
it’s a shame. I think it’s a shame to let a
type of music die. I don’t care what any
kind of music it is. Rock, country, whatever. I
think it’s a shame to let it die, and I’m here to
start feeding it.”
When McBride remarked that Lynn
seemed “mad”, Lynn replied, “Yeah. I’m
getting mad about it. I am. Because it’s
ridiculous.
“I’m not happy at all. I think that they’re
completely losing it. And I think that’s a
sad situation because we should never let
country music die. I think that every type of
music should be saved, and country is one
of the greatest. It’s been around, as far as
I’m concerned, longer than any of it.”
Naturally this was reported by
mainstream media as some fact that a
bona fide country legend would know,
when in reality followers of country music
know what she really means and is echoing
the feelings of nearly all longtime fans.
Mainstream country music, the country
music that fills the country charts and
is played back-to-back by US country
radio owes so little to what is generally
considered to be country music that it is
effectively dead.
However, as CMP readers are well
aware, country music is alive and well... It
just takes a little more finding these days
and its appearance on a country chart is an
all too rare occurrence.
In the days following Loretta’s comments
the 87-year-old icon followed up on
Instagram saying, “I’m still getting lots of
chatter about my thoughts last week on the
state of country music... I’ve loved hearing
from all my fans and so many of the other
artists. Let’s keep it country, y’all.”
Martina sits down for intimate
chats with fellow recording
artists, celebrity chefs, and
a variety of notable guests
passing through her hometown
of Nashville. Special guests
include: Garth Brooks, Pam
Tillis, Dustin Lynch, Sara Evans,
Runaway June, Don Was,
Loretta Lynn, Howie Mandel
and more! New episodes
release weekly on Friday.
https://luminary.link/Martina
MARCH 2020 - cmp 5