Hm, this is odd (Bon Jovi)

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

If Jon Bon Jovi is country, then I'm the f*ckin' Pope!

I know that I'm one of the very few peeps here, who like REAL country, but how can ANYONE believe that a pop-metal singer is now going to be a country star?

It's degrading to the genre, and reeks of mass marketing by the pencil pushers. Gaylord Entertainment(CMT, the former TNN, shOpryland, etc...) is the worst thing to ever happen to country music.

Modern Country music is as homogenized as the music termed "Hair Metal" (A term I hate & dispise) was in the late 80's. Some artists stood out (Motley Crue & Enuff Z'Nuff-Enuff Z'Nuff sounded more like Cheap Trick-meets-the-Beatles than "hair metal") while others sounded faceless when played with other bands of the same genre and/or time period.

Most of the current genre of "country" that is being pushed by the likes of CMT nationally is rather hated in Oklahoma. Artists such as Gretchen Wilson & Big & Rich don't have appeal to the diehard "Real" country music fans here, Most consider them to be "Nashville Rock", not country in the truest since. The only appeal these artists may have is to the younger fans from the ages of 16-24.

Artists such as Sheryl Crow & Bret Micheals (of Poison) have tried to cross over to country and have somewhat failed. Micheals latest solo album, Which was a country album...But I cant remember the title, was a major bomb when it was released last year. Sheryl Crow, who released a country single from her "Greatest Hits" album, had no virtually no airplay here...The few stations that played her lambasted the track or asked fans to call in their opinions, most were rather, uh, "negative" to say the least.

It's funny, The only artist to recently cross-over from country to rock was David Allan Coe, who was/is the singer of the "Rebel Meets Rebel" band & album (The backing band was the late Dimebag Darrell Abbott, Drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott & Bassist Rex Brown-Who were 3/4ths of the band Pantera-The music is equal parts Southern Rock/Outlaw Country/Metal/Blues). It is very cool to see David Allan Coe being shown on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" on a weekly basis. When was the last time a near 70-something year old singer was shown in rotation for a metal video, If ever?