This week’s Popcast discusses the current moment in country music: the CMAs, new albums by Kane Brown and Pistol Annies, and the next iteration of gentlemen bro singers. Sam Hunt was nowhere to be found.Ĭountry’s internal dramas are perennial, but this tug of war between the genre as it advertises itself and the genre as it’s actually evolving feels particularly tense right now. Kane Brown, one of country’s most promising young stars, wasn’t granted a performance slot. ![]() That's no slight feat, especially for a reheated version of Usher 's 'Yeah' made by a fresh-faced teenager who reps a little town in Virginia that rhymes with 'grab a hammock. Though Kacey Musgraves won album of the year, women were by and large relegated to the fringes.Īnd as usual, the ceremony did an imperfect job of capturing the most intriguing corners of the genre. The week 'Run It' was released, it went straight to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and became the first single from a male artist to debut at that spot. Chris Stapleton won his usual retinue of awards. At the 52nd annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, a sense of stasis dominated.
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