Looks like all people’s bought Parker’s again on this one.
Oliver Anthony not too long ago made headlines for a 15-minute rant on the music enterprise wherein he blasted all the things from Nashville document labels to Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter album…and seemingly known as out Parker McCollum too.
He didn’t identify Parker by identify, however he did drop some clues about an artist he performed with on a pageant this yr, accusing them of utilizing “autotune modulators” and backing tracks:
“A variety of these mainstream acts…all people runs backing tracks. Like I’ll always remember, I gained’t say who the act is, however I feel it was at South Carolina on the Myrtle Seashore one, the band who performed after us, that dude had six autotune modulators on a pedal board on stage, simply to assist him with vocal pitch stay. They usually had backing tracks operating, drum loops operating.
It’s like, for anyone to pay lots of of {dollars} to go pay attention to love a faux efficiency…no person talks about that stuff.”
Effectively, it wasn’t arduous to determine who he was speaking about, assuming he was pondering of the right pageant. And since he mentioned “I’ll always remember,” I feel it’s protected to say that he was pondering of the appropriate pageant. The one pageant in Myrtle Seashore is Carolina Nation Music Fest, and the one artist (“that dude”) who performed after Oliver Anthony on the present was Parker McCollum.
After the feedback, Parker took to social media himself to set the document straight:
“Hey guys, per the Oliver Anthony interview or no matter it was claiming that he noticed drum loop modulator or no matter he known as it, I don’t even know what that’s…100% fabricated lie.
By no means ever, ever, ever one time have I ever used autotune or a drum loop or something faux of any type on stage. Me and my guys are ripping it the true deal each single night time. There has by no means been any single a part of our present, not one observe, that was not stay, uncooked, and within the second. 100% fabricated story. That’s 100% a lie.
That may by no means change. We’ll all the time be on the market swinging it as an actual band, making an attempt to do our greatest to respect nation music. So, that’s all I’ve bought to say on it, and that’s the place it wants to finish.”
And it looks like fairly a number of of Parker’s fellow artists are able to again him up on that one.
Quickly after posting his video, he had already obtained feedback of assist from a number of artists, together with Koe Wetzel:
“Yet another time for the oldsters within the again”
And Kassi Ashton even mentioned that she had heard his in-ear combine (which is what an artist hears after they’re on stage) and might verify that it’s 100% genuine:
“I’ve heard your in ear combine whilst you sang within the pouring down ass rain at crimson rocks. Sang like a mf angel.”
After all if anyone would know what Parker is doing on stage it might be Corey Kent, who opened for the Gold Chain Cowboy on his most up-to-date tour and spent a lot of the yr sharing the highway and the stage with Parker himself. And Corey launched a video calling Oliver Anthony “out of contact.”
“Accusing Parker McCollum, of all individuals in nation music, of operating backing tracks and vocal tuning reveals how uninformed you might be and the way out of contact with the nation music world you might be.
That man is one among most likely 10 acts that I do know that doesn’t run any type of vocal tuning and doesn’t run any backing tracks.
I’d say what you’re saying about 2024 nation artists is fairly true. Most of them have vocal tuning, as a result of they’re not nice stay. Most of them need to have backing tracks as a result of they’re not keen to rent the appropriate individuals to play these components…
However Parker is the precise reverse of that. This man lives in Texas. Grew up within the Texas membership scene. You get crucified out right here in case you do this stuff, and if there’s one one who ought to by no means be accused of vocal tuning and backing tracks, it’s Parker.”
And he additionally had a easy message for Oliver Anthony:
“Know your stuff earlier than you speak.”
@coreykent As a man who toured with Parker McCollum all yr, as a present resident of TX, & because the lead singer of a band that has by no means used vocal tuning or backing tracks… I approve this message.
I feel that’s rattling good recommendation. Oliver appears to love to speak concerning the music business (which he claims to be proud to have by no means even been part of) greater than he really likes making music.
Yesterday, even Paul Cauthen unleashed on the singer from Virginia and suggested him to speak much less:
“All you might be is ruining relationships and also you’re hurting individuals that truly work in our business…
I really like that you just suppose you’re holier than thou, however you’re actually hurting individuals on the market.”
After all, there’s additionally loads of video proof we are able to flip to on the market to understand how Parker actually sings:
@graciiehunt no autotune wanted for @parkermccollum 😍 @Oliver Anthony is delusional ✨#parkermccollum #countrymusic
Yeah, gotta suppose ol’ Oliver Anthony was mistaken on this one.
