Hi people,
I have to share with you about this genre of music, of which I had never heard of prior to 1996, called Country Music. I first heard it when I was in Texas back in 1996. It was a genre that I did not know existed beyond the US. Wait, I do remember listening to Kenny Rogers in Saudi. I used to listen to his "You Decorated My Heart" while I would go to school in the mornings.
I picked up quick on listening to the country music. So many names that I had not heard of, which includes Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain among others. I did not find it eay to listen to them initially. When I came back to Saudi, and eventually to Dubai, I had forgotten about it. But, every Friday evening, there is a Country Music Countdown on the Dubai radio. My interested resurged. Suddenly, I found myself recording some of the cooler songs from the radio.
It was such a cool thing for me to see Carrie Underwood, the winner of American Idol to be someone who sings country music. Country music has that distinct edge to it, which I would prefer over any of these pop songs I listen to! The lyrics are always clean, and has some sort of message to it. There are no profanity, no glorification of dugs and violence; instead these songs focus on relationships and pains of broken loves, songs of hopes and loves. They are the opposite of what one would hear from rappers and the message the rappers proclaim of hurt, anger, drugs, sex and women. There is also a touch of spirituality in Country music, and so the songs are real and clean in many ways.
Some of my favorites include Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, John Michael Montgomery, Trisha Yearwood, Leann Rimes, Tim McGraw, Mark Chestnutt, The Mavericks and Billy Ray Cyrus (who can forget the awesome: So don't break my heart, my achy breaky heart......) These are people who produce good music, consistently. If I had to choose one favorite country song it would definitely have to be Garth Brooks’ When You Come Back To Me Again , from the album Scarecrows, also used in the movie Frequency! Totally poignant (as in profoundly touching), totally heart-warming, totally uplifting!
Mansur
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how were you able to delete the first comment???
come on everybody..........
But don't tell my heart,
my achy breaky heart,
I just don't think he'll understand.
But if you tell my heart,
my achy breaky heart,
he might blow up and kill this man.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hi, Mansur, I just finished googling up the lyrics to the Kenny Rogers song, "You Decorated My Heart" and got only four hits, of which this is one. Upon further checking, I learned that the title is actually, "You Decorated My Life" and I had made the same mistake you had.
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