Quote Originally Posted by PapaJack View Post
kmf563:

My statement Country is “arguably” the most popular on a national scale is based on the following:

1. The adverb ARGUABLY has 1 sense: “as can be shown by argument”
Source: arguably - definition of arguably by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

2. From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: November 5, 2006
Byline: Jon Bream; Staff Writer
“Country ranks as the nation's hottest musical genre. Check the numbers: - Sales of country CDs are up 11 percent over last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan, while all other genres have declined and ..” (I’m too cheap to subscribe for the rest of the story)

3. “There are more radio stations in the United States specializing in country music than any other format.” Source: Internet Campus - Welcome

4. Garth Brooks recently passed Elvis, The Beatles and Frank Sinatra as the top selling recording artist of all time.

5. Country Music 318M hits– Rap 140M hits - Hip Hop 83.7M hits Source: Google Fight : Make a fight with googleFight

I’m not arguing “only Country artists” but don’t exclude great Okies only because they are country artists.

In summary, don’t argue with “retired empty nesters” (aka Old Farts) we have more time to gather facts and will argue just for the sake of arguing. Put another way “Old age and treachery will trump youth and skill.”

Dismayed:

I appreciate you position but regret you are “tired of it.” Perhaps your Forum moniker says it all. My ornery side says “If you are tired, move on.” My compassionates side says, “Life is a matter of perspective.” Look to hip cities such as Austin and Dallas. They are about as country as you can get. Their “hipness” is due, arguably, to country roots exposed by “Austin City Limits” and “Dallas” (the TV show AND the NFL team). OKC can get there too and still keep its roots.

Thank you to Oh GAWD the Smell for Google fights. As neat an argument tool as I ever saw.

Finally: Thank you to every contributor to OKCTalk. This is the first of my contributions that has been answered. Perhaps I’m too old the know when to get off a dead horse. My ego tells me I’m great at the “Last Word, .” but I know better. At least one of I my postings may have shut down johnnyboyokc. “Bricktown Reportcard 10-15-2007”.

pj


Garth Brooks has NOT passed The Beatles or Elvis.

As for Googlefights, it's hardly an effective argument tool in my book...I was just being silly (as usual) because it's simply showing the amount of hits of the words, not the subject matter.. The word "country" has many, many more uses than the word "rap" and is (naturally) going to come back with tons more hits due to this. If you actually go to google.com and enter country music, you're going to get national anthems and the like from around the world. Not just a specific genre of music....Like you pretty much do by entering "rap" into the search field.