Luke Combs’s Country Stardom and the Remaking of the Bro

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Luke Combs is the most promising new country star of the last five years, a feat he's achieved by changing up the music's recent formulas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your rusty jackpoint of music news and criticism.
0:12.0	I'm your host, John Garamonica.
0:15.0	I plan a large mouth, fast, bust my line
0:18.0	a couple beautiful girls tell me you good bye.
0:22.0	Trucks break down, dogs run off.
0:25.0	Politicians lie, be fired by the policy takes one hand
0:30.0	count the things I can count on
0:33.0	No, there ain't much man that ain't ever let me down
0:40.0	Longed guys come, but you never broke my heart.
0:46.0	Don't tune out.
0:48.0	Don't turn it off.
0:50.0	Yes, it's Country Music Week on Popcast.
0:53.7	We haven't talked about country music in a while,
0:55.6	unless you're considering the most recent Taylor Swift album,
0:58.1	Country Music.
0:59.8	Ahem.
1:01.0	That said, I've been thinking a lot about Luke Combs, and here's why. I was looking back over the last
1:07.2	kind of 12 months of episodes of pop-cast, and I'm like, man, we've really covered all of the most popular people the people doing the most innovative things the people with the most success you know
1:19.6	Post Malone Drake bad Bunny, etc.
1:22.8	And I was looking at the country chart,
1:25.8	and I was just like, damn, these Luke Cones albums
1:29.0	are just stuck to the top of the Billboard country chart.
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