Yes, "See You Again" is country
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koganbotFrank Kogan's Top 20 Country Singles 2007
(I may dick around with this list a bit more. Waited to the last minute; really had to struggle to get twenty.)
1. Miley Cyrus "See You Again" (Walt Disney)
2. LeAnn Rimes "Nothin' Better To Do" (Curb)
3. Taylor Swift "Teardrops On My Guitar" (Big Machine)
4. Miranda Lambert "Gunpowder And Lead" (Columbia Nashville)
5. Reba McEntire f. Kelly Clarkson "Because Of You" (MCA Nashville)*
6. Gretchen Wilson "You Don't Have To Go Home" (Columbia Nashville)
7. Sarah Johns "The One In The Middle" (BNA)
8. Toby Keith "High Maintenance Woman" (Show Dog Nashville)
9. Gretchen Wilson "One Of The Boys" (Columbia Nashville)
10. Tim McGraw "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (Curb)
11. Eric Church "Sinners Like Me" (Capitol Nashville)
12. Rissi Palmer "Country Girl" (17-20 Entertainment)
13. Carrie Underwood "So Small" (19 Recordings/Arista Nashville)
14. Faith Hill "Lost" (Warner Bros.)
15. Sarah Buxton "That Kind Of Day" (Lyric Street)
16. Big & Rich "Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace" (Warner Bros.)
17. Alan Jackson "Small Town Southern Man" (Arista)
18. Tim McGraw "Suspicions" (Curb)
19. Rodney Atkins "Cleaning My Gun" (Curb)
20. Billy Currington "Tangled Up" (Mercury Nashville)
"See You Again" is unmistakably rockabilly to my ears: the reverb, the melody, the chords, the delivery. Even has a stammer, albeit with an intent that's different from Elvis's. Maybe someone who knows music theory better than I can help me explain what I'm hearing in the chords that make them rockabilly. Key is A minor, with F a crucial chord, F being the subdominant of C, which is A minor's relative major. Having just said that, I have no idea if it's significant or not. I do know some music "theory," but not in a way that I can put to any useful critical use.
*I linked the vid here to "Because Of You"; one way to interpret it is that Kelly is playing Reba's mother, and, though Reba and Kelly are singing together, what Kelly is acting out is what Reba's mother went through. As a bonus, here's the "Fancy" vid; still gives me the "Rosebud" creepy crawlies.
EDIT: I've posted MySpace links for most of these (correcting about 10 of my posting errors; apologies if you tried links that went nowhere), linked the vids for the ones that either weren't on the MySpace page or were only there in abbreviated versions. Linked both for "Nothin' Better To Do" because I especially like the vid.
Will possibly post commentary in the comments as the day goes on.
BIRD REPORT: You should know that one of these singers flips a bird ("The One In The Middle," duh) and one of them gets the bird flipped on her ("That Kind Of Day"). Add Craig Morgan's "International Harvester," and that's three bird flips I've heard in one day.
(I may dick around with this list a bit more. Waited to the last minute; really had to struggle to get twenty.)
1. Miley Cyrus "See You Again" (Walt Disney)
2. LeAnn Rimes "Nothin' Better To Do" (Curb)
3. Taylor Swift "Teardrops On My Guitar" (Big Machine)
4. Miranda Lambert "Gunpowder And Lead" (Columbia Nashville)
5. Reba McEntire f. Kelly Clarkson "Because Of You" (MCA Nashville)*
6. Gretchen Wilson "You Don't Have To Go Home" (Columbia Nashville)
7. Sarah Johns "The One In The Middle" (BNA)
8. Toby Keith "High Maintenance Woman" (Show Dog Nashville)
9. Gretchen Wilson "One Of The Boys" (Columbia Nashville)
10. Tim McGraw "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (Curb)
11. Eric Church "Sinners Like Me" (Capitol Nashville)
12. Rissi Palmer "Country Girl" (17-20 Entertainment)
13. Carrie Underwood "So Small" (19 Recordings/Arista Nashville)
14. Faith Hill "Lost" (Warner Bros.)
15. Sarah Buxton "That Kind Of Day" (Lyric Street)
16. Big & Rich "Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace" (Warner Bros.)
17. Alan Jackson "Small Town Southern Man" (Arista)
18. Tim McGraw "Suspicions" (Curb)
19. Rodney Atkins "Cleaning My Gun" (Curb)
20. Billy Currington "Tangled Up" (Mercury Nashville)
"See You Again" is unmistakably rockabilly to my ears: the reverb, the melody, the chords, the delivery. Even has a stammer, albeit with an intent that's different from Elvis's. Maybe someone who knows music theory better than I can help me explain what I'm hearing in the chords that make them rockabilly. Key is A minor, with F a crucial chord, F being the subdominant of C, which is A minor's relative major. Having just said that, I have no idea if it's significant or not. I do know some music "theory," but not in a way that I can put to any useful critical use.
*I linked the vid here to "Because Of You"; one way to interpret it is that Kelly is playing Reba's mother, and, though Reba and Kelly are singing together, what Kelly is acting out is what Reba's mother went through. As a bonus, here's the "Fancy" vid; still gives me the "Rosebud" creepy crawlies.
EDIT: I've posted MySpace links for most of these (correcting about 10 of my posting errors; apologies if you tried links that went nowhere), linked the vids for the ones that either weren't on the MySpace page or were only there in abbreviated versions. Linked both for "Nothin' Better To Do" because I especially like the vid.
Will possibly post commentary in the comments as the day goes on.
BIRD REPORT: You should know that one of these singers flips a bird ("The One In The Middle," duh) and one of them gets the bird flipped on her ("That Kind Of Day"). Add Craig Morgan's "International Harvester," and that's three bird flips I've heard in one day.
