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If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway. Big cars are a staple of this musical genre.

I think we need a new musical genre where songs mentions bicycles and public transportation so often that every parody of it will always mention it.

I propose to call the genre "city".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0

#BikeTooter #bicycle #urbanism #music

Andreas H. Opsvik :kageaasen:

@tanketom@tutoteket.no · 2 days ago

@forteller If you need band names, there are some good suggestions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BikeMechanics/comments/1m81ksq/what_would_your_bike_shop_band_name_and_genre_be/

Audun

@audunmb@todon.nl · 5 days ago

@forteller there's always Queen for bicycles.

Andreas H. Opsvik :kageaasen:

@tanketom@tutoteket.no · 5 days ago

@forteller I think I could write a lyric like that. But not sure what the genre would actually sound like… like country blues or more punky or what? What does "city" sound like?

Børge

@forteller@tutoteket.no · 5 days ago

@tanketom Yes, that is the big question! How does even a new musical genre come to be? I can't imagine it happens too often, at least not those who go on to become hugely popular. And how did the rural parts of USA decide that country music, with those specific sounds and melodies and lyrical themes, was their jam? How could one replicate that process for people living in cities?

Bjørn Stærk

@bjoernstaerk@snabelen.no · 5 days ago

@forteller @tanketom one theory of genres that makes sense to me is that they're not defined by the music as such, but which audience listens to them. so country music is whatever country music fans like.

which means a new genre requires a new audience.

Andreas H. Opsvik :kageaasen:

@tanketom@tutoteket.no · 5 days ago

@forteller Today's Carbrain Country is just commercial pop with a slight blues twang, not that much left of old country and western.

(And we already have "urban" music, but I don't think I should be the one making an urban song.)

Andreas H. Opsvik :kageaasen:

@tanketom@tutoteket.no · 5 days ago

@forteller NEW BIKE DAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZxINNzLJg

marius

@mariusor@metalhead.club · 6 days ago

@forteller not exactly "music", but this banger got me into liking bicycles in my teens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqlal0R7IGw

"E adesso pedala!!"

Rich Campoamor

@rc7r@mastodon.world · 6 days ago

@forteller
With the promise of self driving cars, how far away are we from a country song about a dude's car leaving him, just like his girl or his dog?

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de · 6 days ago

@forteller

There was one from the Netherlands a few years back (sung in the Drents dialect), they are singing about an 80km ride that crossed the German border and returned to NL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7hrmHmqxs

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