Older services like Pandora have relaunched with an emphasis on ease of use over everything else, and YouTube Music is no exception. Now that streaming music services have already captured the die-hard music fans and power users, they have shifted their gaze toward the casual listener. Also, if you sign up before YouTube Red becomes YouTube Premium (there’s no date on that conversion YouTube just says “soon”), you’ll get YouTube Premium for a $2-a-month discount.

That doesn’t take into account the $10-per-month Google Play Music subscription, which will also give you access to YouTube Music Premium. Meanwhile, the good times still looked as inviting as ever in offerings from Luke Combs, Paul Cauthen and the Band of Heathens, showing new and exciting ways to get over the one who left, or simply get on down.įrom Miranda Lambert’s no-frills shower stall performance of “Tin Man” to Brothers Osborne’s adrenaline-packed “It Ain’t My Fault,” here are Rolling Stone Country‘s favorite videos of the year, in no particular order.YouTube finally has a legitimate challenger for Spotify and Apple Music And Brothers Osborne issued some razor sharp political commentary with an epic Point Break-inspired robbing spree. Midland sold hooch on the sly and took a joy ride in a police cruiser. Thomas Rhett played undercover cop to Maren Morris’ shotgun-wielding bank robber, taking down a crime boss in the process. No less than four major country videos released during Donald Trump’s first year as president depicted a whole range of criminal acts and, amazingly, they were all guilty of being great.Īmong them, Sam Outlaw was an easy mark for a beautiful and dangerous outlaw.

Crime paid in 2017 – at least in country music videos, where some of the genre’s biggest and best indulged their lawbreakers fantasies.

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