Buy Dirt? Why Not?

Learned the term “farm emo” this week. Was a memo sent out on this term (a slang name for Country music)? Emo is short for emotional or emotion, so I am told.

Is it a bad thing or good thing or just a thing? Words are very touchy these days. The University of Washington pronounced that the words “ninja,” “grandfather” and “lame” are problematic and should be dropped. Songwriters better Google up that new list.

Not sure why this guy dissed her, but Taylor Swift had smoke coming out her ears when Damon Albarn, a 53-year-old English Pop singer, told the Los Angeles Times that Taylor doesn’t write her own music. And that he prefers Billie Eilish.

Well Taylor fired up social media to Defcon 3 and said not only did she write her music, but that it was f*****-up that he would try and discredit her writing. Gave him a p.s. too, that she wrote the tweet by herself.

Taylor producer Nathan Chapman tweeted support, noting that she wrote her music 100%. So there, English Pop man!

How great was it for Eric Church at his Detroit show when he had everyone doing a sing-along to Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)?”

Meat Loaf lived among us in his last years, in Brentwood, TN, and played his last time at John Rich’s bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway. In the ’80s, Music Row was the home base for Steve Popovich, the founder of Meat Loaf’s record label, Cleveland International. He was Senior VP at PolyGram in the mid ’80s (our kids went to the same school). What a fascinating guy … and so was Meat Loaf.

Meat Loaf was always an actor who sang. He was emotional and theatrical. He made some Country music friends and seemed to enjoy being part of the community.

His music sales are off the scale since his death, as happens every time a big artist dies. “Bat Out of Hell” will go back in the Top 10 at Billboard next chart.

Congrats to the team that got a real Country song to the top of the chart. “Buy Dirt” is a fantastic Jordan Davis/Luke Bryan song. The video is very complimentary as well.

The playlist right now remains very male with many different styles and production values.

Now the big gorilla in the room: So many in the city are still reeling from the Titans’ loss to the Bengals.

Jimmie Allen won over a lot of people with his halftime show. Had a few tell me they liked him and had never heard him before. Little Big Town, to no one’s surprise, did the national anthem flawlessly. Only the 70,000 in the stadium saw them though. CBS didn’t do a thing.

The city was pretty sure this would be a win, and maybe even win the next one. Didn’t hear anyone thinking we could win the big game.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Music Row and Nashville got the Titan blues!