Martina McBride goes off on country radio DJ's

[Anonymous]

http://theboot.com/martina-mcbride-responds-to-women-on-country-radio-remarks/

For quite some time, there have been discussions regarding the lack of women making it big on country radio, despite the fact there are plenty of talented, quality female artists in country music. Recently, a music industry consultant made some fairly sexist comments regarding the topic — and one of the genre’s biggest stars, Martina McBride, responded with her opinion on the matter.

In a recent issue of Country Aircheck, consultant Keith Hill cautions radio stations against playing too many female artists.

“If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out,” he says. “Trust me, I play great female records, and we’ve got some right now; they’re just not the lettuce in our salad. The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females.”

But with so many strong and talented women making country music, who wants to be described as a simple garnish? Of course, country’s ladies had something to say.

“Wow … just wow,” McBride writes in a Facebook update. “How do you feel about this statement? I especially want to hear from the females. Do you not like to hear other women singing about what you are going through as women? I’m really curious.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure I'd characterize her statement as "goes off."

[Anonymous]

Why not? A DJ thinks one thing, Martina counters it. If you listen to country radio enough, Martina has a valid point.

[Anonymous]

I'm new to country radio (pulled there to hear Keith Urban who is as little country as you can be). Anyway, it seems to me that every other song on Siruis country stations are Carrie, Miranda or Taylor. The 3 have also cleaned up every major award, many times over, that country has to offer.

[Anonymous]

This female thought that the whole "can't play two songs by women in a row" crap on country radio went away 20 years ago. Disappointing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to country radio (pulled there to hear Keith Urban who is as little country as you can be). Anyway, it seems to me that every other song on Siruis country stations are Carrie, Miranda or Taylor. The 3 have also cleaned up every major award, many times over, that country has to offer.

What Sirius station are you listening to?

[Anonymous]

The DJ's comment was idiotic. Martina responded but dd not "go off". She's a nice person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to country radio (pulled there to hear Keith Urban who is as little country as you can be). Anyway, it seems to me that every other song on Siruis country stations are Carrie, Miranda or Taylor. The 3 have also cleaned up every major award, many times over, that country has to offer.

What Sirius station are you listening to?

The Highway and Y2Kountry (no other Sirius stations play Keith Urban). BTW, Martina has a show on one of these Sirius stations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to country radio (pulled there to hear Keith Urban who is as little country as you can be). Anyway, it seems to me that every other song on Siruis country stations are Carrie, Miranda or Taylor. The 3 have also cleaned up every major award, many times over, that country has to offer.

What Sirius station are you listening to?

The Highway and Y2Kountry (no other Sirius stations play Keith Urban). BTW, Martina has a show on one of these Sirius stations.

I listen to "The Highway" at work, and what annoys me is when a "highway find" hits their top 45 countdown, then it isn't a find anymore. For a station that says the "road to new country", they play too much old material.

Miranda Lambert tweeted out what Martina tweeted a few days ago, I still think that is going off on someone.

[Anonymous]

Sirius Y2K plays the first decade and the Highway plays current hits and back about 5 years (for established artists they'll play from the most recent album and sometimes two albums back--I'm thinking Church and ZBB). Seems to work fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sirius Y2K plays the first decade and the Highway plays current hits and back about 5 years (for established artists they'll play from the most recent album and sometimes two albums back--I'm thinking Church and ZBB). Seems to work fine.

The Highway is repetitive, some days, I can predict their set list within an 1 hour block. If you go on their FB page, you will see people grip about some things, but someone just overnight said they played an hour of music and no females (not sure if you can count groups in that, for example, Little Big Town has a female in their group). That is very telling.

[Anonymous]

Modern "country" is mostly absolute dreck anyway, it is full of treacle and crap, especially the bro-heavy rock garbage labeled "country" because it twangs a bit.

Martina is on a higher level but still stuck with that construct.

Modern country is to country music as aardvarks are to Rembrandt.

As Dallas Wayne wrote, "... if you call that country you can kiss my Ozark ass."

[Anonymous]

An hour on the Highway without LBT, Lady A, Band Perry, Carrie (Little Toy Guns especially), the last 10 Miranda songs or that "I Got the Boy"? Hard to believe. Even still, if you look at country's top 50 hits, I'd guess 10% were female right now and a huge loss when Taylor left. Current #1 is definitely a girls song: LBT's Girl Crush. The guy who made the lettuce tomatoes comment is an idiot and I think he's been given too much time and attention as it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Modern "country" is mostly absolute dreck anyway, it is full of treacle and crap, especially the bro-heavy rock garbage labeled "country" because it twangs a bit.

Martina is on a higher level but still stuck with that construct.

Modern country is to country music as aardvarks are to Rembrandt.

As Dallas Wayne wrote, "... if you call that country you can kiss my Ozark ass."

Do you know a good place I can get my record player repaired? My old place went out of business. In 1995.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Modern "country" is mostly absolute dreck anyway, it is full of treacle and crap, especially the bro-heavy rock garbage labeled "country" because it twangs a bit.

Martina is on a higher level but still stuck with that construct.

Modern country is to country music as aardvarks are to Rembrandt.

As Dallas Wayne wrote, "... if you call that country you can kiss my Ozark ass."

Do you know a good place I can get my record player repaired? My old place went out of business. In 1995.

You're tying to insult PP by implying that they're out of date, when you're the one who is ignorant at the resurgence of vinyl records. It's still niche, but it's definitely back to very cool.

Modern country really does suck. It used to be a different flavor of decent music, but now it's actively bad.