Why cant they just leave us alone?

**Scotti Adams** · May-13-2011, 12:35pm

**mandopete** · May-13-2011, 12:50pm

Dude, she just read Chris Pandolfi's blog and decided that since there's so much money and fame in playing bluegrass she couldn't resist!

**Mike Bunting** · May-13-2011, 12:55pm

Pathetic.

**Scotti Adams** · May-13-2011, 1:05pm

Id rather stick pins in my eyes than to watch that.

**tkdboyd** · May-13-2011, 1:29pm

Makes me want to run away from bullies to a big city where I'll never experience harassment ever again...

**Jeff Budz** · May-13-2011, 1:47pm

I think it's impressive that TS can pull of a traditional bluegrass number like that.... //joke

**Fretbear** · May-13-2011, 1:56pm

"There's been too many four-wheel drive soundtracks and Yee-Haws yelled......"
Norman Blake

**Theo B** · May-13-2011, 1:57pm

A guitar-banjo?.. Really?

**CES** · May-13-2011, 2:04pm

So don't watch...she's got millions of others who are...

Now, if we could just work out a collaboration with Taylor, Chris Thile, and Jack White, well, then we could really lay down some type

EDIT: Betcha wouldn't make fun of Doc Watson for playing his Guitar-Banjo

**Theo B** · May-13-2011, 2:13pm

Originally Posted by CES

Betcha wouldn't make fun of Doc Watson for playing his Guitar-Banjo

Are you kidding? Of course I would!

**Mike Bunting** · May-13-2011, 2:19pm

Originally Posted by CES

So don't watch...she's got millions of others who are...

Of course she does, lowest common denominator and all.

**cstewart** · May-13-2011, 2:20pm

Has she claimed that song is a bluegrass song? Is modern country not allowed to use "bluegrass" instruments?

**Dennis Ladd** · May-13-2011, 2:24pm

New iteration of the Kingston Trio?

**sgarrity** · May-13-2011, 2:27pm

I won't be buying her record or even the single but I liked it for what it is, country tinged pop music. At least it's got a positive message.

**JEStanek** · May-13-2011, 2:29pm

Originally Posted by cstewart

Has she claimed that song is a bluegrass song? Is modern country not allowed to use "bluegrass" instruments?

That's what I was thinking. Sounded like a straight up pop country tune to me. Hardly my taste but more so than some other things. Her lowest common denominator = ¢a$h.

Old Crow Medicine Show utilizes a 6 string Banjo as well... I like OCMS much better than Taylor Swift but you can't argue her sucess.

Jamie

PS Along with Shaun's point, it is a positive message. You gotta remember a large part of her target demographic is young girls. Primary schools (k-12) are way more brutal than they were in my time (late 70s - late 80s).

**CES** · May-13-2011, 2:31pm

Originally Posted by Theo B

Are you kidding? Of course I would!

As well you should! She probably got the idea from Keith Urban or Old Crow Medicine Show or something...

EDIT: Jamie beat me to the OCMS reference...stupid slow fingers...

**250sc** · May-13-2011, 2:34pm

I'm not overly impressed but I'm also not sure what you're having problems with. The 1920s dustbelt outfits or the songs message or the playing or the too many strings on the banjo. I don't thinks it's being marketed as bluegrass or to a bluegrass audience.

Please inlighten me.

**RichM** · May-13-2011, 2:37pm

Seems like a reasonable enough country pop song. Never understood why fans of one kind of music seem to feel a need to denigrate other kinds of music. If it ain't your thing, move on to something that is.

**CES** · May-13-2011, 2:40pm

Originally Posted by Mike Bunting

Of course she does, lowest common denominator and all.

At least they've got someone who's actually writing their own music, playing instruments (ok, ok, you might have me there...but at least she doesn't just hold it like some do), and putting out, for the most part, a positive image and message. I'd much rather my 14 yr old listen to her than Lady Gaga or Rhianna, for example. Of course, I'd much rather my 14 yr old listen to Sarah Jarosz, Sierra Hull, the Lovells, Biscuit Burners, Tripping Lilly, or, heck, even Kathleen Battle, but you can't win them all...

Of course, my daughter's more into alt rock here lately (rather than the "old boring" music), and she actually likes the Avetts and Mumford, so maybe there's hope for her yet

BTW, RichM, that's a sweet looking Avatar!

**John Flynn** · May-13-2011, 2:43pm

I think she's being pretty nasty to mean people...we need love and understanding too!

**JeffD** · May-13-2011, 2:54pm

The worst I can say is that it is not my cup of tea. But it certainly is tea.

**250sc** · May-13-2011, 3:15pm

"Why can't they just leave us alone?"

I still don't understand. Are you a bully and feel picked on?

**woodwizard** · May-13-2011, 3:38pm

Originally Posted by JeffD

The worst I can say is that it is not my cup of tea. But it certainly is tea.

Feel the same way

**mandolino maximus** · May-13-2011, 3:45pm

That's how a mando player feels about the rest of the world. Eveyone keeps calling it a ukelele. Someday it will grow up and then they'll see.

Thinking of the video in terms of the target audience, maybe it's a good thing that bluegrass instrumentation can be considered appealing to the yute of America. In a way, it's a bit like a children's version of adult country star Dierks Bentley's latest bluegrassish crossover Up On The Ridge (with Ronnie McCoury, et. al.). Love the comment above about going off to the big city where you'll never get hassled again, though.

But seriously, can Scotty really win American Idol?

P.S. My introduction to bluegrass was The Battle of New Orleans, a huge crossover back in the days. It was the first 45 my mother let me put on the player by myself. She was ready to kill me.