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

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

Chatting with 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 type of understand I could not be one. The extra I attempt to write nation songs and make nation information, the additional I get away from what actually has at all times made me, me,” the Texas native mentioned.

“I do not know what you’d name it, however you realize all these names. When you took all of them and put them in a blender, I feel 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 slim style, there was very strict standards and these days, it is simply not,” McCollum mentioned.

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