Evan Percival's Listening Blog

 I chose to write my switched on pop blog about the Return of Guitar episode. At the beginning of the episode they play three songs by one by Khalid, Halsey, and Juice Wrld. They suggest that all of these songs have these melancholy guitar based intros and how this is really different than years past. They did a study of all the top 100 songs and found that there is much more guitar than in years past. This lead them to believe that this came from more country music in the top 100 because country music is known to always have a guitar. They found this however to not be true. Pop music which is usually made synthetically now has more guitar than in the years past. One thing that I learned from listening to this podcast is that really the electric guitar can be traced back to Hawaii. That famous Hawaii sound that is often heard when Hawaii is shown actually comes from the electric guitar. At this point the podcast had an advertisement which I did not appreciate because I already pay ...

 This week I chose to write about the song "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson. Alan Jackson is very comparable to George Strait. These two country artists were the faces of country music in the 80's and 90's and their songs are still played today. Both of these artists were very traditional in their country style. The song "Gone Country" was actually written by Bob McDill. It was released way back in 1984. This song basically tells the stories of multiple people who are unsatisfied with their current lifestyles. These people then make the choice to change their lifestyles for a simpler country lifestyle. The main chorus of the song says                                 "He's (one chorus it says she's) gone country, look at them boots,                                                ...