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7 May

Robert ChristgauKorrents 7 May

From one piece And It Don’t Stop 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Nashville's Music Row perfected pop songwriting as a commercially potent fusion of melody and meaningful lyrics.

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Nashville's Music Row fed off, professionalized, and pretty much perfected pop songwriting per se, ending up with what they understood to be nothing less than not just an art form, which they cared about in itself, but a commercially potent fusion or amalgam of irresistible and well‑sung melodies shoring up meaningful verbal constructs capable of inflecting the love lives and even the world‑views of its audience.

And It Don’t Stoprobertchristgau.substack.com
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The album-side format failed to survive the CD era.

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the album‑side thing, of course, failed to survive the CD era

And It Don’t Stoprobertchristgau.substack.com

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