Holy cow! Look at the different ways they're expected to dress. Combs gets away with a T-shirt or plaid flannel and a trucker's hat, while Lambert is all glammed up. Maybe it's their personal choice, but I bet it's got something to do with country expectations.
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Seriously. Just notice the effort she has to put into not just her songwriting and creativity but fitting into the beauty ideal — meanwhile he could have just rolled out of bed, splashed his face, and said “I’m good to go.”
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I like both artists. I listen to and buy their music. Luke's is much more radio friendly. Sorry, just a fact. Miranda often gets hard core and nasty, which I happen to love. Being a woman of a certain age, I appreciate her viewpoint because it is often the same as mine. Luke can break your heart or lift you up. He is as real as he looks, pure country good ol' boy. Miranda is a Texas southern belle which is basically, a hammer covered in velvet. Her music reflects it. Yes Nashville is very unfair to female artists as is country radio. But when you stream music on Amazon, you get to hear many women that never make it to the radio. I highly recommend it. And for those of you who don't live in a place where you have 5 country music radio stations to chose from, and little else, country music varies widely and it is all good. It is the original big tent and I love it all, even the rappers.
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Miranda Lambert is infinitely more talented than Luke Combs. If women want to fix Country Music they need to do the one thing that always works. Flex your power at the market place. There's always been a male manager, husband, or "hanger-on" behind country's most famous female singers. This isn't the tradition country music anymore.
Those days should be over. The "Gender Rule Book" won't mean much if Women are making more production dollars.
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"All of Combs’s singles — seven of them, beginning in 2016 — have reached the Top 3 of the Billboard country songs chart. Lambert, too, has had seven singles in the Top 3 — it just took her six more years."
So what? Since when did record sales reflect actual artistic musical achievement? If that were true, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber would be two of the most important artists in the history of recorded music.
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If you hear it on country radio, it ain’t country music. Country radio stopped playing real music a long time ago. What passes for country music today is over baked, homogenized crap devoid of heart and soul and make no mistake, mostly male. Real country must does exist thankfully, just not on country radio.
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The women of country music tend to write with more depth, have better, more interesting musical arrangements, and stay truer to country’s roots.
Allison Moorer’s latest is a fine album that’ll fly well under the radar because she writes about real people in tenuous situations.
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Soulless, formulaic pablum has afflicted music genres over the years, and country is no exception. Feeding it to people unburdened by taste makes record labels happy. Fortunately there are artists like Chris Stapleton and Ashley Mcbryde who still put out quality material from time to time, but it took them years to get airplay. For those of us who still care what we listen to, streaming is the best thing to ever happen.
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Miranda Lambert hooked me-as a first time listener- well over 60 on a long flight home from Asia with no idea who was in my ears-a truth serum, a deep drink-compelling songs. That two CD listen, ironically - the 'Weight of those Wings' created a fan for life. Wry, dry, clever, deep, sorrowful, silly, melodic, reflective - honest. No pablum for me-a door into many kitchens. She and the many who continue to cook country without compromising the heat of the sauce, deserve their just desserts--play and listen up-it's a great time to cross the divide!
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