The “Mind-Blowing Six Country Song Mashup” had gone mega-viral. Within 36 hours, media outlets all over the internet, including legacy magazine Time had featured the mashup, and NPR’s All Things Considered had interviewed its creator, Nashville songwriter Greg Todd.
The post went so viral so quickly Thursday morning, Saving Country Music’s server crashed momentarily. READ: Mashup Illustrates How Many Country Hits Are The Same Subsequently a video that racked up only 400-something views in the two months after it had been initially posted has gone über viral, racking up nearly 2.2 million views at the time of this post, and counting. So even though Saving Country Music has seen similar illustrations and passed on featuring them previously, it seemed this one was worth shining a little bit bigger of a spotlight on in whatever capacity could be achieved. But this mashup seemed to be done with an extra bit of heart, really delving deep to illustrate similarities and trends technical enough in nature to be smart, but with an audio element to be easily accessible. There’s been numerous of these examples presented over the years, but mostly within the pop medium, once again offering further evidence that country music has become the pop of the present-day music world. As some have pointed out, it is not exactly a new concept or enterprise to put together a mashup of similar songs. I combined that with line art in the same sort of style and a feminine, desert color palette of red, rust, peach, and pinks.On Wednesday morning (1-7) when Saving Country Music received an unsolicited email from a “Sir Mashalot” touting a video that had been uploaded to YouTube back on November 4th of 2014, who knew that it would become the first country music viral sensation of the young, fertile year. Therefore, I settled on a monoweight sans-serif with rounded edges. I wanted to incorporate my handlettering however, I wanted it to be appropriate for theme.
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I designed a hand drawn type on the iPad Pro and vectorized it in Illustrator. I decided to design my country music game to have a fun retro/vintage aesthetic that was contemporary enough to appeal to my target market, country music’s female fans in their twenties. We decided to call our game “Mashup” as it was a mashup of different games rolled into one.Īfter establishing our game mechanics as a group, we each picked our own themes and began individually designing the 200 cards, box, game board, instructions, and pieces. If they get the question wrong, they must go back a space. If the player answers the question correctly, they get to stay on that space. Players take turns rolling the dice and landing on different colored spaces that coordinate with a different action/card. Each player would be put on a team and would compete against the other team(s) to get all the way around the board. We decided upon Trivia, Finish That Song Lyric, Pictionary, and Chance Cards.
We decided to take aspects of other games and combine them into one new game. I worked with a team of three other people to create the game mechanics. I wanted to create a board game that would allow my friends and I to have fun with the music genre we love throughout the year. Country music is something that I grew up listening and Country Music Festivals are one of my favorite parts of the summer.
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