Parker McCollum May Not Be a Nation Singer After All

Nation music is seeing a renaissance (pun supposed) with artists similar to Beyonce efficiently crossing into the style with huge award wins, and artists similar to Submit Malone and Machine Gun Kelly releasing nation songs and/or albums.

However as pop artists and rappers proceed to shake up the nation music recreation, Parker McCollum wonders if he can nonetheless outline himself as a rustic artist.

Talking to Tupelo Mississippi’s WTVA 9 Information, the “Fairly Coronary heart” singer reminisced on the time earlier than he was a chart-topping singer and questioned his future in nation music.

“I wished to be a rustic singer for so long as I bear in mind, and the longer I do that, the extra I form of notice I may not be one. The extra I attempt to write nation songs and make nation data, the additional I get away from what actually has all the time made me, me,” the Texas native mentioned.

“I do not know what you’ll name it, however you already know all these names. If you happen to took all of them and put them in a blender, I believe it may come out as one thing comparable,” McCollum continued.

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The “Burn It Down” singer additionally believes the present nation music style is not fairly the identical because it was once.

“Nation music was once such a slender style, there was very strict standards and these days, it is simply not,” McCollum mentioned.

“The factors is as free because it’s ever been for one thing to be known as nation music… and as soon as everyone begins to do one thing I wish to do one thing else,” he added.