Comments on: Pat Green, “What I’m For” http://www.countryuniverse.net/2009/07/17/pat-green-what-im-for/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leeann Ward http://www.countryuniverse.net/2009/07/17/pat-green-what-im-for/#comment-92500 Leeann Ward Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:31:07 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=11972#comment-92500 Ugh..."Country Star." Ugh…”Country Star.”

]]> By: Stephen H. http://www.countryuniverse.net/2009/07/17/pat-green-what-im-for/#comment-92480 Stephen H. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:42:22 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=11972#comment-92480 If he had had faith in "Country Star" I might have actually started caring about his music. But that got pulled in favor of this, and now I'm back to my apathy towards him. If he had had faith in “Country Star” I might have actually started caring about his music. But that got pulled in favor of this, and now I’m back to my apathy towards him.

]]> By: Leeann Ward http://www.countryuniverse.net/2009/07/17/pat-green-what-im-for/#comment-92423 Leeann Ward Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:10:09 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=11972#comment-92423 "But in the end, the soul and promise just feel too restrained by the strict, shallow songwriting template, the mad attention to saying nothing too provocative or unusual, to doing whatever it takes to fit in snugly with everybody else. Too bad Green didn’t notice “everybody else” has kind of sucked recently." Awesome! My problem with someone like Green "selling out" isn't that he wants to fit in or attain commercial success (I get that), but that he chooses to sound like all the other current mainstream artists, which isn't exactly how to get me interested, since as you said, most of them aren't worth emulating right now. “But in the end, the soul and promise just feel too restrained by the strict, shallow songwriting template, the mad attention to saying nothing too provocative
or unusual, to doing whatever it takes to fit in snugly with everybody else.

Too bad Green didn’t notice “everybody else” has kind of sucked recently.”

Awesome! My problem with someone like Green “selling out” isn’t that he wants to fit in or attain commercial success (I get that), but that he chooses to sound like all the other current mainstream artists, which isn’t exactly how to get me interested, since as you said, most of them aren’t worth emulating right now.

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