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Discontent in Connecticut?
R. Alex Whitlock
I've been getting a resurgence of google queries involving
Kenny Chesney and homosexuality again. I thought it odd till I found out that things
weren't going well for
Connecticut's country music export and his now estranged wife, Renee Zellweger.
On a side note, looking for the link where I found out something about Connecticut Kenny that explains a lot. The general assumption - on my part, at least - was that he was merely a tool of the Nashville machine. Turns out that he went to college and got a degree of
advertising. I guess I didn't give him enough credit on intelligence and gave him too much credit in intention.
Carry on...
Observations
I don't fault any Nashvillean artists for riding the commercial wave as far as they can.
But, don't expect me to give some of the commercially successful artists who don't write their own tunes, do play with session musicians, and are marketed by the Shite Factory as being anything musically other than products of the Shite Factory. It may be commercially successful, but it's not really my idea of genuine music.
Most popular country "music" today is comparable to artists like Kelly Clarkson or Hillary Duff. I call it country muzak.
I don't have a problem with an artist taking the cheap-and-easy way to stardom with tight jeans and pop claptrap. But at some point you become big enough that you can start doing stuff that doesn't suck. That can take the form of writing your own stuff or if that's not your talent it can mean picking different songs. And I think that once you have breachfront property in the Virgin Islands and a mansion in Connecticut, you've reached that point.
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