Todd's video sat mostly unwatched on YouTube for a couple of months, when the blog Saving Country Music wrote about it last week. "It was the formula at work: a tight, mid-tempo backbeat a quick, two-verse set-up, often laced with clever wordplay and bouncy, lyrical melody and - bam - the power chorus to bring it all home and keep them coming back." "There's an old saying in the music industry: 'Don't bore us, get to the chorus.' So often, I found myself listening to the beginning verses of a new radio release, thinking, 'Really? This is on the radio? Why?' Then the chorus would hit, and I'd say, 'Oh, that's why.' "The more I listened, the more similarities I heard among them, notably the power chorus," Todd says. Each time he heard a new one, he added a track to his mix. Then he started noticing that other songs fit the template.
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He imported MP3s of both songs into ProTools audio software and tweaked them so they played at the same tempo and in the same key.
Todd, who has lived in Nashville for six years, started the mashup after hearing Parmalee's song on the radio and recognizing the similarities to Shelton's single. Parmalee's Close Your Eyes, Iritten by Adam Craig, Trent Tomlinson and Minor.Chase Rice's Ready Set Roll, written by Rice, Rhett Atkins and Chris DeStefano.Florida Georgia Line's This Is How We Roll, written by Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Bryan and Swindell.Cole Swindell's Chillin' It, written by Swindell and Shane Minor.Shelton's Sure Be Cool If You Did, written by.Bryan's Drunk on You, written by Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson.The six tracks - all top-five hits on USA TODAY's country airplay chart - were released between 20, and show some overlap in songwriters. (Church is not among the artists whose music appears on the video.) "If you're alive, you've seen it," says singer Eric Church, who says he received links to the video from another artist, a songwriter, a record-company executive, a publisher and a radio programmer. He even plays all six records at the same time briefly in the mashup.Īlthough posted in November, the video only started reverberating around Music City in the past week as it started catching fire on blogs. Greg Todd, an aspiring songwriter and the video's creator, highlights the structural and thematic similarities in contemporary country by editing songs from Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton and others so that they flow together seamlessly. The songs couldn't sound more alike - literally.Ī YouTube video making the rounds in Nashville and among music fans everywhere shows that, when put together, six recent country music hits - each dealing with such time-honored topics as trucks, alcohol and moonlight romance - sound as if they could be the same song.
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