Bye, Bro. In Country Music, It’s the Year of the Gentleman.

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Nashville has been undergoing a gender crisis for most of the 2010s. Is the latest development — kinder men — a solution?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your Dollar Store Hair Gel with a lot of volume and a lot of shine of music news and criticism.
0:11.0	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:14.0	I can't count the times.
0:16.4	I almost said what's on my mind,
0:20.3	but I didn't.
0:29.0	Just the other day, I wrote down all the things I had say, I wrote down all the things I had say but I couldn't just couldn't.
0:37.0	Baby I know that you've been wondering.
0:48.0	So here goes nothing in case you didn't know baby. I'm crazy about you
0:58.5	That would be lying if I said that I could live this life without you, even though I don't tell you all the time.
1:12.0	You had my heart a long long time ago in case you didn't know.
1:20.0	In case you didn't know, baby I'm crazy about the country gentleman movement.
1:28.0	It's a fact.
1:29.0	The 2010's been pretty wild for a lot of reasons.
1:32.0	Yes. Yeah, a lot of reasons. Yes.
1:33.4	Yeah, a lot of reasons.
1:34.4	A lot of things happening. I'm not going to get into all the things.
1:37.0	But if you've been paying attention to country music in the last five to seven years,
1:41.0	you will have noticed two concurrent plagues.
1:45.0	One is the dearth of young female country stars and continuous slots for older female country stars.
1:55.0	And the second are the bros.
1:58.0	Shouts to the bros.
1:59.0	Shouts to weather baseball caps,
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