Blog 7

Look at readings for hip-hop AND country.  Where do you see similarities and/or connections between these two music genres?  What do they have in common?  Where are they fundamentally different?


Country and hip-hop are both around to make people happy and to get them up moving and grooving to the music.   Both genres seem to have topics that occasionally entice some sort of negative feed back from fans and/or other artists.   Hip-hop often times in present day has a very negative subject matter.   Real world gang wars have ensued as a direct result of lyrics a hip-hop artist has used.   Country focusses more on patriotism and war protests which "The Dixie Chicks" found out was not the best thing to focus on.   Their song "Im Not Ready to Make Nice" was a response to the fan response they got for speaking out against George Bush and the war in Iraq.   Country does not often demise women where hip-hop does on a regular basis.   Hip-hop often has a catchy tune that makes people want to get up and dance by grinding on each other.   Country, not so much.   The values of the genres are entirely different as well.   If my daughter came and told me that she was going to listen to country instead of hip-hop, which is highly unlikely due to the fact that my daughter cant yet speak and she doesn't understand the difference between hard rock and country let alone hip-hop and country.   Country doesnt seem to have the lets go kill anybody who ever did me wrong attitude, or the you are just a bitch i can pull around and tell where and what to do when.    Country often times has family values.   You often hear songs with lyrics like "if I'd loved her like that she wouldnt be gone" and about how family is the most important thing.   If all genres had lyrics with that kind of message would society be in the place that its in?