Comments on: Blame Reba: An Unstoppable Track-by-Track

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:14:39 +0000

Open Invitation: Come on over to my house. We’ll sip on some sweet tea, listen to George Strait and Alan Jackson, and vent for hours about how much we hate Rascal Flatts. No electric guitars, drum machines, or hair gel allowed.

(I hope my mom doesn’t read this; she likes them!)

By: Leeann

Leeann — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:52:05 +0000

Me too, Paul.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:27:33 +0000

Better you than me

Rascal Flatts is the archetype for everything that is wrong with modern country music – bad vocals, insipid lyrics, rock guitars and a lot of posturing. I’d rather listen to an hour of Taylor Swift than ten minutes of the Flatts

By: C.M. Wilcox

C.M. Wilcox — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:23:19 +0000

Ha, I can relate to the music battles during road trips. I usually end up settling.

Thanks for all your reading and commenting lately!

By: JD Myers

JD Myers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:11:29 +0000

I’m proud of you C.M……I really am. At least you had an open mind and listened, which is a thing I do sometimes just so I can’t be called a jerk for no reason.

However, it never pays off for me. I ALWAYS end up disappointed. Thanks for taking the bullet for us….not that I was going to buy the CD for myself anyway…..but every now and then I’ll buy a CD like this and give it to my wife as she tends to enjoy this type of complete time wasting music.

I never have to ride in her car so I’m not put through the pain….but OCCASIONALLY we end up on a family outing and that’s when I get paid back for my purchases. I try to bring my own CD’s with me in these situations, but believe it or not she and my kids get just as aggravated with my musical taste: Waylon, Elvis, Charlie Rich, Hank Jr save a few songs…that I end up in an argument over what we’re going to play.

The last CD we agreed was great together was the new Miranda Lambert.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:40 +0000

Ooookayyy….

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:24:57 +0000

IT’S CALLED EVOLUTION LADIES AND GENTLEMEN….SHE’D BE LONG GONE IF SHE KEPT SINGING TRADITIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC…..PERSONALLY I LIKE HARDCORE COUNTRY REBA FROM THE EIGHTIES AND ESPECIALLY LOVE DRAMA QUEEN POP REBA WITH ALL THE DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTALS AND OVER THE TOP SCOOPING, WHINING, TEARY EYED MULTI SYLLABLE JUST DOWNRIGHT TURN A PAPER CUT INTO A CRISIS REBA!!!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:20:28 +0000

Okay, there are people who do not like Reba’s singing….most of my friends. However, I love her voice and the way she just takes notes and makes them into a major event. Absolutely love her freaking voice. Especially when she goes into a vocal seismic drama fit. Anyway, one of my friends thinks she can’t sing. My point is Reba may honestly like this group….I don’t….but she apparently loves something about them to offer such a strong opinion………Furthermore, Reba’s music is what we call RELEVANT TO TODAY’S STYLE….SHE WOULDN’T BE A LEGEND AND A COUNTRY MUSIC ICON IF SHE DIDN’T EVOLVE……DUH!!!!

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:17 +0000

Hey, not a problem. If I had to listen to a whole album of “The Voice” screeching, I probably wouldn’t be so quick to even give a half-hearted defense of their work

By: C.M. Wilcox

C.M. Wilcox — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:12:21 +0000

As much as I ran with the opportunity to poke fun at the Flatts, I also honestly appreciated getting the chance to at least hear them out over the course of a whole album. Even if this didn’t make me into a fan – and even if it didn’t stand a chance of doing so, since I brought my biases to the party – it gave me a better idea of what they’re doing musically beyond the radio singles I’ve heard. There’s something to be said for education… even when it hurts my ears. (Gary LeVox shrieking through earbuds is bad news. Definitely more of a voice for open air listening, I’d say.)

They take a lot of the heat for bad pop-country in general, but I’m not sure that they’re the worst offenders: they’re just the most visible example of an act that has been really terribly successful doing a type of music that a lot of people (myself included) deem to be really terrible. As soon as I start feeling a little sorry for them, though, I remember that Gary Vernon renamed himself LeVox. Anyway, thanks for drawing that point out a bit more. I thought it was interesting.

Guts and an unstable psyche just about covers it. Thanks, Mike.