![]() Here it is in its entirety:Īs many of you know, last week I sat down for an interview with Larry King. Gary Allan has “clarified” his statements to Larry King in a post to his fans on Facebook. See the relevant clip from the Larry King interview with Gary Allan below. His most recent album Set You Free was released in January. Gary Allan is a platinum-selling country artist singed to MCA Nashville, who’s released 9 studio albums and 26 charting singles. country fight has been happening since the very beginning of the country genre, pop and rap’s recent dominance of the country format brought on by the monopolization of radio that Gary Allan references above, and Billboard’s recent decision to change its chart structure to boost “crossover” songs has tipped the scales to where influences outside of country music dominate the sound of the genre like never before. ![]() Gary Allan joins a chorus that includes Alan Jackson, Kacey Musgraves multiple times, and other prominent country stars from the past and present coming out against the direction of country. To me, country music is still Monday through Friday, and pop’s about what happens on the weekends.” “ You know I personally don’t like it because I loved the character of country music and I loved what it is and the lifestyle of it…. Larry King then asks, “Do you like it or don’t like it?” ![]() You used to be able to turn on the radio and you knew instantly it was the country station just by listening to it, and now you’ve got to leave it there for a second to figure it out.” We’ve sort of ended up in this…we’re nicknamed the soccer mom, like 35 to 45 year-old woman I think is what our demographic is. Like if you want to get to the young kids, you put it on the alternative station. You know, so they’ve kind of sliced everything up, feeding it to the public in demographics.” But I think since the Clear Channel’s and the Cumulus’s and the big companies bought up all the chains, now it’s about a demographic. I don’t feel like I make music for a genre anymore, and I did, you know, 15 years ago. I would say they’re pop artists making a living in the country genre. “Is Taylor Swift country? Is Carrie Underwood country?” Larry King asks. The parade of country artists coming out to criticize the direction of country music continues, with Gary Allan now coming out in an interview with Larry King, decrying country music’s move towards pop, and specifically Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.
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