Late last year Oliver Anthony had a scathing critique of Nashville and the current state of the industry. It's safe to say Kip Moore disagrees.
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Appearing on the Ten Year Town podcast, Moore tore into Anthony and his critique. He said that he fundamentally disagreed with Anthony and the way he went about sharing his criticism. While Moore acknowledges that some modern day music is chasing the hits, the singer largely disagreed with Anthony and his perspective.
He said:
"I couldn't help but kind of giggle at that dude, the Oliver dude, who went off the other day because, you know, he was talking about songwriters.
And yeah, maybe the craft and the type of songwriter has slipped a hair with people not really understanding the craft of how a song goes. You've got a lot of people in town, like, 'Yeah, that's what's up. Yeah, let's just go with that.' And it's like, 'Well, hang on, should we go with that?'
But to say some of the silly a** stuff that he said, you know, I'm like, buddy, go sit in a room with Casey Beathard, go sit in a room with Brett James, go sit in a room with Tony Lane and they will write circles around you."
Kip Moore Takes Issue With Oliver Anthony
Moore takes issue with Anthony and his belief that Nashville writers are just chasing the money. Moore points out that songwriters have dedicated years to perfecting their trade. Really, who is Anthony to come tear all that down?
Moore said, "The people that spend their life learning that that craft, Nashville's special because of that. And they should get paid for their services. That's what they've dedicated their whole life to. So it was just, the whole thing was like a clown show to me."
Previously, Oliver Anthony was quite scathing in some of his commentary about the industry. He believed that record labels artificially propped up songs.
He said, "Find some guy that you can build a character around. Prop him up through your label. Give him a bunch of songs that some kids over at The Hick in Nashville wrote while they were wearing their Crocs and drinking White Claws and hitting golf balls."
He continued, "Nobody that's either written the song or sung it really knows or understands the words to the song that their singing, but it sounds good and it's catchy and it fits the model. And it sounds like every other big song that's been out in the last five years. It's just a rinse-and-repeat model. It serves no purpose, other than it's just a business."
