Rihte sings, beer, don't buzz with that hip hop cause, but a damshire do with a little knitty gritty. In an odd way, that was only underscored by the thing that happened this year, where he's captured on video tape using the n word. And so that's an example of the country identity at that moment, being a little more flexible musically, but being a little stronger culturally.
Kelefa Sanneh is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book is Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.
“I’m always thinking about how to not be that person at a party who corners you and tells you about their favorite thing and you’re trying to get away. It’s got to feel light and fun. And what that means in practice is writing about music for readers who don’t care about music, while at the same time writing something that the connoisseurs don’t roll their eyes too hard at.”
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