Every country song has these lyrics. Right?
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Today's video is a DEEP DIVE into the world of country music, and I'm determined to figure out if the stereotypes people have about modern country songwriting are actually true. Is it REALLY all about beer and trucks and girls and blue jeans? Are all the lyrics REALLY the same? To find out, I maintained a spreadsheet of every country song that has reached the Top 30 of Billboard's Country Airplay chart for the past six years (2014-2019) and then crunched a whole lot of data.
00:00 - Intro
02:20 - Building my ultimate country lyric spreadsheet
04:33 - Initial findings in country music from 2014-2016
06:16- The 5 most popular words in country music
10:16 - TRUCK stereotype testing
12:44 - GIRL stereotype testing
14:26 - JEANS stereotype testing
15:14 - BEER stereotype testing
16:21 - Writing my OWN basic country song
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Dana's Crunched Data Report: danagibbon.github.io/country-...
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This is, bar none, the hardest I have ever worked on a video, and I hope it's entertaining and that it helps drive forward the conversation about country music! Love all y'all little back road truckers. YEAH.
The song is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen
You did a great job with the video! It was fun and fascinating to watch! :) Are you going to make a video about the ACM's? I thought it was a great show. My favorite part was Carrie Underwood's tribute to female classic country singers! 😊
As a country songwiter myself this helped me alot, but im still not sure wether it shows me what to or what not to write either way i'll be looking back on it during sessions, nice work Grady :)
From a data perspective this was a great video on country lyric "performance" over time. The question "are country lyric stereotypes accurate?" was well tested.
"Yeah" is not surprising given the popularity of the Millennial whoop in the 2010's.
What would be interesting from a song writer's perspective is a predictive analysis of country music lyrics. i.e. What lyrics are trending up and is it possible to loosely predict what they'll look like in the coming year?
Great stuff Grady.
Loved all the data analysis! Really cool video!!
Most used word in Country Music: "Yeah"
Most used word in One Direction: "Nanana"
Nost used word in modern trap, "yuh, skrrt, ayy"
@@LycanixMusic not words
@@dare3244 1st of all, It's usually counted in the lyrics as an adlib (the ones that are usually bracketed when you read the lyrics), so technically speaking, since it's on the lyrics, it'll make it in the analysis, thus counts as a word in the lyrics
2nd of all, my comment was purely satire, so there's a bit of wooshing going on there.
Fire
Nanananananana
If anyone doesn’t get it it’s referencing The Promised Neverland
Hey Jude intensifies
“Hey girl, you make me wanna write an unoriginal song about a cliche girl” -Country songs of the past decade
Axis of Awesome did this in their song...Cliche Love Song
And cruuuuuuuuiiiiiise
🤣🤣🤣
czcams.com/video/pUJMuwaAgQY/video.html here is this to make you feel better
Hey I love that song though.😅
I'm not even American. But I can feel it in my long tan legs.
XD
_wheeze_
Why is this comment so underrated?
@虎ツバサ lol.
Lol
My family plays this game called the “country song game” because we believe that you can make a country song up with any three given words. So we go around in a circle and the person who will go next gives us three words and we have to make a song up on the spot. It’s stupid and hilarious. Many times of us busting a gut laughing so hard.
Haha that sounds like a great game,I wanna play!!
@@ramona3840 try this then: chair, sun and maths.
Lmao 🤣
I’m glad I have introduced you all to my whacky family ways. 😂
@@ramona3840 Here: Trucks, beer, jeans
This still goes to show that Bo Burnham's "rural nouns, simple adjectives" line holds true.
was looking for this.
My favorite country song
🎶I could sing in Mandarin, you'd still know I'm pandering, huntin deer, chasin trout, a bud light with the logo facing out🎶
Could you explain that? i never got that.
@@halflife103 It means that all country songs start by listing random nouns and adjectives.
I knew ‘girl’ was one of the most common words. My friends and I played a game where we try to find a country song WITHOUT the word ‘girl’. It’s almost impossible.
Not until you play “God’s Country” 😎
In less than 10 seconds i came up with one. It's colorado Rocky mountain high, by john denver
If she ever leaves me by The Highwomen
try kacey musgraves
Miranda lambert
Sometimes I wonder how different a country song would sound if it didn’t have a country accent
It would be the same old cheesy pop we all know
Have someone just sing it
Most of what is on country FM radio today is just pop music sung by artists with southern accents.
Then it would sound good
Listen to “ in case you didn’t know - maoli”
I noticed “cold one” wasn’t on your beer word list. I feel that’d skew your data much further into beer territory.
yeah
@@largebaguettevr8035 little yeah
@@Aerxis a yeah with gigantism
@@killerbug05 and necrophilia
It even sucking on a whiteclaw is beer
I’m going to write a country song with just these lyrics
“Talkin bout Whiskey, and girls in trucks, yeah”
Total bop man, I listen to it on the radio everyday
I'm the 69th like, that is all 😆
Blake Shelton already did this: “talking bout girls, talking bout trucks”
And I’m parked down by the lake...
Pretty accurate
Unlike Shania, this does impress me much.
😂😂😂
I’m dead. This comment lol 😂
He’s got the look, but does Grady have the touch?
What's wrong with Shania? She was the last artist to do country music proud. After her it all went downhill0
So you’re a data scientist!
Charlie Daniels: "the devil went down to Georgia he was looking for a soul to steal"
Johnny Cash: "I hear the train a coming, its rolling around the bend"
Modern country: "I'm in my truck with the lift kit, got my beer, going to party with the country girls"
I’d say hip hop has had a similar ‘evolution’
@@Oilincoolhouse "guns, drugs, sex, bitches, crime, les go! aight"
@@shuriken2505 more like cars, drugs, girls, party, luxury, designer brands etc..
BIG IRON, rose garden, gambler
"16 tons and what do you get"
The most off putting thing about country for me is the country voice, like I’ve seen artists sing normally, then in country voice.
Its a very processed and artificial southern accent.
As someone from Kentucky, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is extremely fake and exaggerated by most people. Especially boys between the ages of 13-18.
ok but like. i come from a place where people talk like that. maybe a little over exaggerated but pretty similar-
@@m_artroom that’s who they are pretending to be
@Martina Smith No joke, bluegrass freaking slaps
“You have become the very thing you swore to destroy”
Lol, love the reference
Hello there
General Kenobi
You have underestimated my power!
@@dragonkfg Don't try it
If Thomas Rhett or Dustin Lynch sees this they’ll pay big bucks for Little Yeah
I'm gonna give you a little yeah tonight
Girl I'm gonna yeah you right
When I see your face imma let out a little yeah
I wont even have to ask your critical dad
Little yeah
Don’t forget Chase Rice
Chris Jansen will be in there too lol
Maybe Dustin would rhyme “little yeah” with “little yeah”
Thomas Rhett seemed to have some neotraditional songs on Center Point Road like Beer Can't Fix. He should do a whole album on neotraditional sound. Some of his songs sounded like songs from the 60s like Crash and Burn and the 70s like Make Me Wanna with that disco beat. As for Dustin? He should have stuck to songs like Cowboys and Angels.
Currently working on my next big country radio hit, "Yeah, Little Baby Girl."
"Yeah girl, my little girl. Lets crack a ice cold beer in my red truck as we drive down a red dirt road, lets pour that whiskey in my red solo cup. Lets put some time aside and watch the night sky as we fall in love under the starry night sky. Get up at 6 am as i put on my blue jeans and she put on her blue jeans. Plowing through the corn fields with country music playing."
@@lunahetfield Hello you may not know me but my names chris hansen did u know that ur singing about a 7 year old girl 😆☠💀.
Chantl Mcclary 0_0
That sounds a lil bit pedophile
I think the "trucks" word group was missing words like "drive," "driving," "windows," "back road," and any other peripherally-related vehicle terminology. Probably would have skewed those numbers a smidge higher.
The word groups were all missing fairly typical words too. For example, the image he puts up to represent trucks is a ram/dodge which wasn't included but Tacoma was..
Similarly, alcohol includes margarita and cocktail but not bourbon or any beer brands.
Still the most original country song of 2020.
In the categories of CZcamsrs that I watch that I didn't expect to see commenting on this video. Love your work.
Go listen to Eric Church's and Chris Stapleton's new singles haha, there's still hope!
Colter Wall. Trust me.
Midland, Chris Stapleton, Jon Pardi like Jackal said there is still hope!
@@damyan5305 Yeah! Starting Over is out now and Chief's new album is dropping soon. It may drop within the next few days, either that or a new song!
You forgot to include the innuendos for beer, like “good stuff”, “keg”, & “cold one”. It would easily blow all other words away
“I took my little baby girl into town in my truck for diapers.”
Dad country.
as someone who lives in kentucky, it’s almost impossible to not know someone who regularly listens to country. I know some country songs by heart when I don’t even like the music itself, that goes out to my parents anyways.
I need you to know i read your comment with a progressively more exaggerated generic southern accent
@@ahhh4117 yknow, fair enough.
Same here
@@ahhh4117 did it begin to snowball once u hit "kentucky" bc that was my experience
I’m in Maryland and years ago in High School bus rides we would listen to the same 3 country songs on repeat, i don’t like country at all and I don’t know the names, but I can still say each and every lyric of the songs. It hurts.
"This is not the perfect country and western song because he hadn't said anything at all about mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk."
D.A.C. Now that’s country music 👌🏼
Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got ran over by a damned ol train!
country music: "yeah"
ariana grande: "yuh"
This killed me
You aren't wrong
I seriously thought the most popular word was “blue” I hear it to often in songs blue jeans,blue eyes,blue skies 😂 sounds like an elementary teacher giving a lesson, but I tell you Grady you make me wanna listen to country music even more now.
People making these jokes about country songs clearly haven't heard David Coe's "You Never Even Called Me By My Name".
It's a famous country song where he literally has a whole section making fun about country songs It's brilliant and it's beautiful.
An excerpt from some of the lyrics:
"Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting' drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train"
And that was 1975
I think the best part is that aside from that wild last verse, it's a pretty normal country song.
trucks trains prison and mama!
She got isekaid out of this realm.
One or a few songs don't make up for it.
“A Little Yeah” features everything that Grady has trained his viewers to hate. Plus it only has maybe 5 different notes and a melody that goes nowhere. I am simultaneously annoyed and impressed.
With a little higher production values though it could chart
Country music AND data spreadsheets? It just doesn't get better than this
Right!!! I feel so seen!
When the Venn diagram of country and Excel is just a little yeah
For years every time I've heard one of these awful derivative songs I ask "Is this that new song Dirt Road Truck Beer?" And to prove this video's point, most people think that's actually the name of the song.
OMG this reminds me of when I was in High School and I would go up to random kids who thought they were cool and indie and ask if they were going to the "dead baby fetus" show that night and they'd say hell yeah I love them! Or whatever made up punk/metal/indie sounding made up name. 😂😂😂
Meanwhile me being 60 years behind:
*I fell into a burning ring of fire*
Cuz it burrnsss burns burrrrns
@@impastabowl2328 That ring of fiiiireeee
thats alot of girls trucks and towns i tell ya what
That’s a classic song.
@@Howitgoes799 that’s the point
I feel this analysis could be applied to the Christian music industry too lol 😂
I remember someone saying you could take the less gratuitous r&b lyrics and make them gospel songs and vice versa if you switch jesus christ/god with baby/girl lol
Yessss
I think I have seen a video somewhere on the internet about that though (it might have been John Crist)
As a Christian I definitely agree it’s to repetitive and all the songs sound the same
@@marleee.2174 czcams.com/video/bwwhkKPEieE/video.html
“Truck, town, little, baby” sounds like a country sound
My trucker girl, little-town baby...
Girish Manjunath lol
"little truck, little town, little baby" boom top 10 country song
@@GirishManjunathMusic "My trucker girl, little-town baby", yeah I got her with me, pourin' us some whiskey, In the back of my truck with the with the windows rolled up, AC on, while I strum a little country song (*guitar solo intensifies*)
@@chronofactor2037 yeah I got her ridin' shotgun, radio blaring country songs, speeding down the dirt roads with our windows rolled all the way down, and when I leave the farmlands for the city, I'll miss my little-town baby, my trucker girl who's riding with me all day long.
“Long tan legs, I couldn’t help my self” sounds like a rape confession. Honestly, country died in 2003 with Johnny Cash, maybe there are some exemptions but it’s honestly become awful. Folk music is different, I like a lot of anais Mitchell and people like the Oh Hellos and The Crane Wives. Some country mixed with other genres are good, Barns Courtney comes to mind, and obviously Lil Nas X who blended country and rap perfectly
well said
Im with you. Honestly can't stand country music nowadays, but folk há to be my favorite genre
Folk, folk punk and bluegrass are so good
"Mr. Lonely" - Midland
Yeah girl.
“Yeah, baby girl, I love you more than a little”
"Beer may never break your heart but it broke my brain" aa meetings in Texas
My favorite “truck” song without a doubt has to be Lee Brice’s “I Drive Your Truck.” Makes me cry every single time
Yeah that song gets a pass from the truck criticisms
@@dawsoniezen I am surprise nobody mentioned the word truck have been around since the 60. Red Sovine's Teddy Bear, CW McCall's Convoy and Jerry Reed's East Bound And Down from Smokey And The Bandit soundtrack all used trucks, but in this case semis.
talks about actual emotion, immediately disqualified from Bro Country
Great song
That song isn't about the truck. just a good metaphor
Inspired by this video I wrote these lyrics:
It was a hot summers night
At a downtown bar
Round seven o’clock
When she burst through the doors
With her skinny jeans on
And my heart began to drop
Cause I knew that girl was the prettiest sight
That I ever did see
She would never be mine
But I was gonna take a chance
I said hey lovey lady
Would you let me have this dance
When you’re with me, I’ll be a gentleman
Do what ever you ask
I’m sure there’s a million more men
Who would promise you the world
So why don’t you take a chance
With a small town boy
Congrats. You two have made a country song.
You should release this
The fact that Florida Georgia Line is still considered country after saying “Mix tape’s got a little Hank, little Drake” honestly disgusts me. No hate to FGL but I cringe every time I hear that song.
They also mention to “play that Travis Tritt above the Tupac” in May We All
Like both Hank Williams and Drake would want to be anywhere near those nerds... the best they can get is hanging out with Nelly who isn't even that relevant to today's rap game... probably better off trying to start Twitter beef with Soulja Boy
i mean Tim McGraw had a similar line in "Truck Yeah" - 'Got Lil' Wayne Pumpin on my iPod ..'
That happens to be from my favorite song. Not because I listen to country but because it's the only country song I can recite almost by memory. That's probably because it was in WWE 2k15 back when I played those games and it was the only song I had on.
@@greattitan371 sorry to offend you
“Yeah baby, I’m gonna love you a little” just used the top 5 words so easily and kinda sounds like a country song lyric!
Ima write a song with these 😂😂
Already platinum 😆
I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting' drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train
it was a stereotype in the 70s
I LOVE THAT SONG!!!
My man DAC!
Best beer drinking song next to pop a top
@@furrycircuitry2378 cant forget think ill just stay here and drink by merle haggard
yessss i thought about that when i saw the video 😂
This was an outstanding amount of data analysis. I would love to see this same thing done for hip-hop, rock, and pop.
Great video as always!
“WELCOME TO TRUCK TOWN, LITTLE BABY GIRL...”
Now are two trucks. Oh no my muscles, they are flexing.
@@howaboutnow1895 Oh no, my muscles flex involuntarily!!!
Yeah
"little baby girl"
uhh ok buddy i got the feds on my line
FBI OPEN THE FUCK UP
Grady, 2013 called, they want their lyrics back
Like literally, he stole them. They belong to him now 😂
Very nice. Thank you. You have been rewarded by the algorithm.
This is my new favorite video! Props to you! Would be so amazing to see this with different styles
Video: Cuts to a snippet of a stereotype song
Me: *bobs head to music and realizes I’m part of the problem
I mean there's nothing wrong with liking that kind of music
It be like that
i felt that on a personal level
I actually used to like Country. Well I still kinda do but prefer a lot of the older stuff though.
There was so much work put into this video analysis, I liked it as soon as a saw charts presented! Awesome job😊
I love spreadsheets. Deep approval earned.
Not gonna lie, that wouldn’t sound all that out of place on the radio.
Loved this analysis of country music !!! And the song clips you used were great
I have never gotten that many likes on a compliment. My most liked comment ever only had like 50 likes and it was a _very funny_ joke.
@@Willybean08 whats the joke
@@arco4936I don't know why I said it was funny because it wasn't even a joke, it was more of like a shower thought, but here goes:
*"Five minutes of late 1940's early 1950's nostalgia" If CZcams existed in 1970.*
It was on a video titled, "Five minutes of late 2000's early 2010's nostlgia"
Yeahh... I'm a little boring.
@@Willybean08 yeahhhh okkkk
@@arco4936 sorry :/
Awesome video man!
Awesome job!
6:57 Does that make Usher's "Yeah!" a country song? 😂
YEAH
YEAH
YEAH
YEAH
YEAH
That stock footage of that elderly lady texting on her phone was A+
watching these videos as someone who doesn't listen to country music outside of a few specific songs is always so interesting and eye-opening. i feel like i'm getting a peak into what country music is like in a very accessible way!
As a Canadian who hardly knows country music...I only know three country singers. Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Reba McEntire.
Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash through their songs and Reba McEntire through her sitcom. Lol. So hearing these songs are weird for me.
I'd be willing to bet that "yeah" tops most genres. I would love to see an analysis like this on other music genres. I admit I'm not the biggest fan of country music, but I really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
especially rap music and loves songs
Yeah. :P
As a college student currently working on a research thesis, WOW! The effort and time put into a 20 minute video is insane. Major respect for the dedication.
This legit is the best video I watched today. Totally worth all the work that went behind this one video!!
Love your song at the end, you are good.
Someday someone will make a song called “Yeah Little Baby Girl”
Haven't they ?? 🤔
12:18 man rhymed "Tacoma" with "California" and I have to respect that.
!!
the only reason to mention tacoma, no other songs did lol
Nothing more country than a Japanese light truck in California
@@thejusmar I mean yeah it make sense, rural parts of California exist, and Japanese trucks are popular, especially there
I just feel like country is exciting and relaxing, It covers everything there’s a country song for whatever mood you’re in... Party, Blues, Chill and so on. That’s how everything gets with time... Repetitive you could say the same with any genre not just country, Look at rap you can always expect to here someone talk about getting with women staying strapped up and drugs/alcohol. We can’t expect to always hear new sounds because in all reality the goal for these people is to blow up and earn money so why change what doesn’t need to be fixed??? if you dislike the music don’t listen to it it’s really that simple. Btw I think this was a great video Grady I can tell you really put in a lot of work and effort we all appreciate the entertainment man I don’t want you to think I’m hating
Awesome video!
More better than a little 🌟
Grady. This was fantastic on so many levels. I really can’t believe you’ve kept this project going for 5 years 😂 That’s basically the equivalent of a college degree in country lyrics! Well done.
The thing is saying girls and trucks and jeans whatever isn’t bad by itself. It just when it’s presented in a really annoying way. Like Dustin lynch
Cowboys and Angel's is probably his only good song
Colt ford has the most annoying songs
I think Georgia Florida Line are super annoying.
That spread sheet 🙌
Awesome one Grady
Grady why is there a file of billy currington’s mugshot on your computer
Billy Currington must be doin’ something wrong.
@@aaroncharlie9058 I've never seen a better reply than this. Well done.
Aaron Charlie he needs some good directions to get em back on track, eh?
Came here for this. 👏🏽
@@aaroncharlie9058 I almost spit my tea out, wasn't prepared for that reply LOL
Grady Smith: "The body parts mentioned really aren't especially crass, they're pretty innocent."
Wheeler Walker Jr: "DROP 'EM OUT LEMME SEE THEM..."
Family tree is wonderful.
@@hollybritt5225 A personal fave.
Gonna take a long look at those....
Love this video! Country music is my favorite and my guess for the most used word was girl so i think i did pretty well. I really like all the little music clips cause they reminded me of some of my favorite songs i kinda forgot about while i’ve been listening to all the new ones.
Loved the video ma dude! I’m a big metal head and country is not the only genre of music that can get “a little” repetitive ;).
George Strait can use whatever word(s) he wants to. He’s still the king.
And it's because he doesn't, he makes good music
George could make a song using all these stereotypical words and I’d still listen because it would sound fabulous. He’ll, he could even sing ‘Little Yeah’ and I’d listen too it
I'd say Hank Williams Sr or Johnny Cash is the king of country music
@@bnbcraft6666 I wasn't around for the OGs of country music but whoever is the best would have to have had significant commercial success across several years, a wide variety of material and texture in his music, a respectable command of a musical instrument, elements from his own life that are relatable with his audience, a song you'd want to listen to with your dad, a song your mom likes to hear, a song you'd like to dance to with your wife and a clean image. For me that's George Strait.
Don Williams
Tom T Hall
Bobby Bare
Hoyt Axton
Charlie Daniels
Chris Ledoux
Mark Chesnutt
Randy Travis
Tracy Lawrence
Clint Black
Alan Jackson
Brad Paisley
David Nail
Gary Allen
Kenny Chesney
Tim Mcgraw
Garth Brooks
All have some portion of that lofty ideal but the artist who most wholly rounds out those ideas for me is George Strait.
in my opinion tim mcgraw will always be the king of country with faith hill as the queen of country, but if it wasn't faith hill as queen i would choose carrie underwood
Starving else to remember Is not just dress, but a “little black dress” to be exact. And maybe that’s just 90’s country but it’s still here prevalent
I love country music. I cannot get enough of it. Repetitive or not I’m still digging it
Appreciate your research
“Well I was drunk the day my mom got outta prison. And I went to pick her up in the rain. But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck. She got runned over by a damned old train.” Perfect country and western song
Came to comments specifically looking for a reference to this
I’m only commenting just so the algorithm is like “yes, this video”
"Yeah, this video"
Yuh
Would be interesting to have this level of analysis with other genres.
wow the work you put in your videos is incredible
I seriously would LOVE to see the metal genre version of this.
It would be interesting, as metal is a broader genre but also has many similar themes across those genres. Like, how would Gojira compare to Slipknot?
I want that to, just to see what’s gonna happen when they get to groups like Babymetal, Saint Snow, and Roselia
I love how the thumbnail is just Luke Bryan looking apprehensive like "oh yeah, those are all my songs, aren't they"
Man, I’m new to country but I really enjoy you content and that was a great video.
Cool project!!
Perfect algorithm timing. Gonna start writing "Dad Country" where the guy has no money and no time to do everything mainstream country writes about because he has kids and a wife. Way back up in the hollar, we raise our kids on Family Dollar. Under the soft glow of a WaHo. My buddies truck/house/grill/pool cause I don't have the money for any of em.
⬆ This guy for president!
The thinking y
Is "A Little Yeah" on Spotify? I could groove out to it!
Agreed
The snap track will make it #1.
this must have been a massive amount of work. great video!
Wow, the amount of work that went into this video is incredible!!
Songs are usually about emotions; love, possessions (truck, outfit), work, memories, sometimes events like holidays or social gatherings (wedding, funeral, anniversary) all in hopes to relate the shared memory you have in your life to that same memory attached to the song. The same with R&B, Rock, Country, Gospel, all competing for the mood you relate to.
How to be a Country Pop Star in 5 easy steps:
1) Be a good looking (preferably Caucasian) male age 20-35
2) Buy Cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, blue jeans, and plaid shirts
3) Learn how to play basic acoustic guitar chords and learn decent voice pitch
4) Watch this video and base your entire songwriting on what is mentioned the most
5) Move to Nashville and get signed by a major label
That's all there is to it!
It's true. :)
That's why aside from Luke Combs and a few other people, I only listen to traditional country and bluegrass
Nowadays, just a cap will do the trick 😒 sadly
You are correct sir....unfortunately. Very little country pop is even halfway decent, in my opinion. The more traditional acts like Randall King, Charley Crockett, Dave Fenley among numerous others take more time to develop a following it seems.
You don't need step 4 . If you look the part and can sing someone will write your songs for you.
OMG! how come I just saw this!!!! I love country music and language processing is my job/life!!! this is awesome!!!
Bravo! You just created a data driven approach to lyrics that make it on a top 30 chart. Please consider patenting your application here and consider using it for every other genre! As someone who looks at data every day for one of the USA's largest retailers, I can tell you that this is very impressive and something that you can and should sell. Congratulations! This is incredible work and I hope you get rewarded handsomely for it!
We are gonna need a "little yeah" merch 🤣
Noticed your "alcohol/drink" category did not include specific Beer Brands. I have a feeling it would tick up some if you added "PBR", "Bud" etc. :)
Also, "pop top".
Great video!
I was thinking they say “bar” a lot too
If it had bud light it would so be higher
Miller light, a couple buds
This is fantastic. There's nothing quite like proving a living stereotype with science
I just found your page yesterday and I've been watching your videos.
This one...WELL DONE Grady!!
Entertaining, Funny... I do like the way you interject video clips that apply to your narrative, very cool!
All that and also most provocative! I'm curious now as to what the word database would be for all my favorite Country hits from 1989 - 1996!
There was a proliferation of incredible songwriters and musicians! That's when Country music crossed all boundaries!
Of course I realized it those were also the day is of Achy Breaky Heart, etc.
Still, all things considered, the ratio of great songs to not-so-great songs was like 100 to 1! LoL
Thank you so much for this!!
this made me nostalgic and rly hit me in the feels but 100% in the best way. Well done, everything about this was top notch
I don’t normally comment.. but this was an incredibly well thought out video and I appreciate all of the work put into it, especially as a former market research major. I love me some good data points! You and Dana did an amazing job on this!
this was really cool to watch! rlly fascinating and so true
and that song was really awesome! 👏
I recently got an advert for a song where some bloke was going on about how he'd rather drink hot beer, burn his fishing equipment and go hunting without a gun rather than get back together with his girl. The sheer number of stereotypes was on a level where I actually sat through more of the ad than I usually would because I was so disbelieving that it could be an actual song. I thought it must be a parody or designed to be humorous to sell a product 😅
Irony is a strong seller