The Voice Season 5

[Tom22]

Appreciated all your guys thoughts. I only buy a handful songs from each season of these shows (and many seasons less) and I've bought couple this week that some people connected less with.... I've come around to really figuring that singing skills are worthless if people don't connect .. .maybe it wasn't so much "come around to" but having occasionally too concerned with "why" they liked it. I've got a peculiar taste for taking things apart.

I've heard lots of places that "all the country acts are eliminated"
actually there seems to be universal agreement on that.

I don't quite understand is what is called country these days. To my ear I'd call what Austin or Ray sings more country than what passes for country these days. Watching parts of the CMA awards there seemed to be some pretty heavy rocking groups interspersed on stage too. Those groups counted as country where they certainly sounded as southern rock as those two contestants to me

When I listen to the lighter cross-over sounds of Taylor Swift .. well, I can see why lots of people in the world really enjoy them as lots of the world really enjoy's pop music and I like what i've heard of her songs a lot better than most pop music (not sure that's a very high bar for me)

Curious if you think Taylor is as much 80's new-wave pop (new-wave light that is) as old style country?

(skip to a minute in on both songs.. the Rem is a bit more up beat so they're not perfect comparisons...for sure even for what i'm getting at)







have the REM guys put on a straw hat and gingham shirts and maybe just a few banjo licks and their song would feel just as much or more coutnry that that Taylor swift song ? !

Then there is
again not the same tempo.. this time with Austin's slower.










What are they calling Ray's if it isn't country?
It's more country than blues ?
I wouldn't call it southern rock.. or it is the most country type of southern rock ?