Country music is pretty broad these days in terms of its sound, and Tim McGraw thinks it’s just a natural sign of the times.  “I think that you can go way back, and you can go back to the days when there were only a few radio stations that you could listen to, and so your influences were smaller,” he says.  “I think now at the push of a button there’s any kinda music in the world, I mean you can go on a radio station in Paris and listen to music if you want to. So everybody is exposed to so much more music and all that music sort of blends together and everybody learns from everybody else, and everybody’s fans of everybody else.”  In fact, Tim gets exposed to a lot of new music by his three daughters who listen to a lot of different genres besides country and he says, “The more music is exposed to you and the more you hear and the more styles of music you hear, that’s always going to be an influence on what you do.”  Naturally there’s good music and there’s bad music, but Tim embraces the different interpretations of country because he says, “I think there’s a little tweak here and there that causes it to be Country, or causes it to be Pop, or causes it to be something else. But I think the essence of what we do and the message of what we do and sort of the impetus of everything that we do , all sort of comes from the same place and we all get fed the same way.”

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Tim McGraw – pop in country  :53

“I think that you can go way back, and you can go back to the days when there were only a few radio stations that you could listen to, and so your influences were smaller. I think now at the push of a button there’s any kinda music in the world, I mean you can go on a radio station in Paris and listen to music if you want to. So everybody is exposed to so much more music and all that music sort of blends together and everybody learns from everybody else, and everybody’s fans of everybody else. The more music is exposed to you and the more you hear and the more styles of music you hear, that’s always going to be an influence on what you do. I think there’s a little tweak here and there that causes it to be Country, or causes it to be Pop, or causes it to be something else. But I think the essence of what we do and the message of what we do and sort of the impetus of everything that we do , all sort of comes from the same place and we all get fed the same way.”