Country Music Stars Opinions of The Gay

[kentuck]

Interesting slide show. (I love Dolly Parton)


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/country-music-award-nominees-gay-community_n_1082823.html#s459625&title=Martina_McBride

[Dawson Leery]

1. A small "rant":

Bill Clinton's consensual affairs = bad.
Herman Cain forcing himself upon women = "never occurred"

That God Damn Miranda Lambert :puke:, who was inspired by Bill Clinton's affairs, too had an affair with a married man, condemns divorce (Kim Kardashian's :eyes: divorce) even though Mr. Shelton had a divorce so that he could marry her (to which Ms. Lambert said she "forgave" him for his past "sins".
I am more than tired of these pieces of hypocritical right wing s**t!

The country community as a whole tends to be simple and narcissistic.

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. The country music community

is much more diverse than it used to be. As a whole, it appears to be a conservative monolith. In reality, it is a complex community just as most are. Kitty Wells and Loretta Lynn were singing about the pill and women's issues years ago. Tanya Tucker was breaking every moral convention ever conceived of. Country music people deserve to be judged individually.

[CreekDog]

9. Actually, Country Music is a lot MORE conservative than it used to be

you won't hear these people on the radio (but you used to!):

Willie Nelson (unless it's a duet with somebody)
You don't hear Johnny Cash anymore.
Mary Chapin Carpenter? :rofl:
Dixie Chicks? (crickets)
Roseanne Cash?
even Merle Haggard --forget it (and he's kinda libertarian now).

country is not what it used to be and it's mostly monolithic and bland, all hat, no cattle.

[lonestarnot]

10. Zactly, and I wasn't fond it before either.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. Bland doesn't necessarily mean conservative.

The newer acts that have developed seem to have been made from the same mold. Most of then people you mentioned have just been replaced by newer acts as time passes. That's the nature of the business.

NASCAR has undergone the same transformation. The racers lack a lot of the character that made the older drivers so interesting. Smoke is my favorite and the only one who seems to have a spark like the ones who built the business. Jimmie Johnson is a great rAcer, and he is as dry as dust.

[CreekDog]

12. Your words not mine --I said it's become conservative because it has become conservative

and the liberal names that used to be in country were easy to rattle off and i could rattle off a dozen more in a flash.

but name liberal country stars now? there are a whole lot less of them than there used to be.

stars come and go, but liberals just aren't heard on country radio like they used to be.

you want to say it's not happening --it is happening. there's groupthink in most of popular country music and it's why things sound so monotonous.

and by the way, the Dixie Chicks didn't leave country radio because they weren't popular anymore --they got kicked off when they were selling out arenas and making gold records.

take your head out of the sand. :D

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. I know about the Dixie Chicks.

Thank you for the reminder since I am so clueless. Thank you also or the compliment about my head. The smile just made it hunky dory.

I'll mind my own business now in my sandy, make believe world and listen to the liberals who aren't there. You can have what just has to be the real world since you deem it so. I'll leave the highlighting what is the truth to you.

[CreekDog]

14. sorry

:shrug:

[Dawson Leery]

16. Correct. The populism (and somewhat liberal) side of country has

disappeared. 21st century (post 9/11) country celebrates the status quo, being content with having little of anything (including financial security). They are open in their disdain for anything remotely progressive.

[TlalocW]

2. Almost all of them seemed pro-LGBT

I knew Dolly Parton would be in there. I'm glad to see Garth Brook's opinion too since I had a big hand in making his website (name-dropping). :)

TlalocW

[kentuck]

3. Dolly is an Angel...

...walking this earth.

[blm]

4. Single bars and single women with a single thought in mind......

....

[TlalocW]

5. She's is a little too sweet to be real

A gay guy I worked with in college worshiped her and would get pissed off that I poo-poo'ed his belief that he could see her aura (hardcore skeptic), but she's always seems to have been on the good side of issues.

I always thought this epitomized Dolly.

http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/061219.html (start of the story; she shows up a few comics later).

TlalocW

[kentuck]

7. When I was twelve years old...

I lived in a hollow in SE Kentucky. We could only get one channel on the TV - NBC out of Knoxville Tennessee. I used to get up early to watch Dolly on the 15-minute Cas Walker Show. Just to hear her sing made my heart skip and I was high all day long. :-)

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Dolly is one of the most genuine people you will meet.

She is also a damn good business woman and an immensely talented artist. I don't pretend that she is perfect, but that is an impossible standard. Dolly is what you see and hear. She isn't a fool, but neither is she pretending to hide behind some false persona. She readily makes fun of herself and her appearance.

You will notice that the conservative mooks and their groups do not attack her even though she supports people and causes they consider anathema. They know better because she has earned a great deal of respect over the years and thus has a lot of power. If they attacked her, Dolly would meet them head on. I wouldn't want to get in her way.

[xchrom]

15. I Heart Dolly.

She's really a cross over Diva.

[CreekDog]

17. I do too, but i don't think she's been played on Country Radio in two decades

which sucks.

[CreekDog]

18. if country music fans were as accepting as most of the artists in the slide show...

this would be a different country --for the better.

of course, i still submit that, for probably other reasons, the most accepting and supportive artists in the slide slow don't get their music played on country radio.

the sad fact is that so much country music is kept off country radio. all the progress that Willie and Waylon and Dolly and those folks forged was lost to other venues.