Gustavo Mioto talks about his international career and the sameness in country music About a year and a half ago, Gustavo Mioto was on g1 He listened and talked about the "current sameness in country music". At the time, the singer stated that the musical genre was not moving forward in terms of quality. Months after the artist's comment, the country singer lost his dominance in the top positions in the ranking of most listened to songs on Spotify. Since the end of 2025, the predominant genre in the Top 10 is funk. Last week, Gustavo spoke again with g1 and, when asked about the possibility of this change in the ranking being related to the sameness of the backcountry, he spared no criticisms again. "I think that ranking dominance is dominance in numbers. And we have several possibilities of how this dominance can be achieved. Right? Let's go", says Gustavo. "I haven't been interested in the rankings anymore, because at the front of the stage we see what dominance is. And the artists that I see dominating at the front of the stage, sometimes aren't dominating the rankings." "For me, what interests me is how many people are in front of the stage and how much they are singing the entire song, and not just that 15-second part." Mioto also stated that this dominance on the platforms is subjective and that he does not trust the numbers. But he does believe that sameness could be a contributing factor, since "you hear 10 current country projects, and you hear the same thing in all 10." "I still have the same opinion. We live in the same way, we still go backwards in the countryside. In 1992, 1995, Zezé was more modern than we are today." "We have perhaps the most listened to and popular genre in Brazil, and we're letting it be beef." Gustavo Mioto's show continued with rain at the Festa do Peão de Americana 2026 Thomaz Marostegan Is an international career an escape from the country side? In an attempt to show that there are other ways to bring news to the country market, Mioto is investing in his international career. In April, the singer released the song "Last Goodbye". And, this Wednesday (8), he arrives with "Drunk Side", which will be the theme song for the 2026 Festa do Peão de Barretos. "I look forward to seeing what new people do. And when I see new people arriving, it's usually the same things. I think there are ways of doing it and I'm very anxious for someone to arrive and do it differently. So, before waiting, I need to at least try to show how I would do it", says the artist after denying that investing in country music is an escape from the backcountry. The full album does not yet have an exact release date. The idea is for it to come out in 2026. But Mioto is already celebrating and says that the reception of the project "was better than expected". "To be quite honest, I expected very little, because we know it's a Brazilian singing in another language, a country singer singing in English. There are several variables that prevent this from happening. So I thought it went very well", he says. "We had a lot of positive American reviews. I found out that one of the most respected country critics there [Robert K. Oermann, from MusicRow Magazine] praised 'Last Goodbye'. He said he sees sincerity, authenticity. So, just having received this first feedback, it's already a great success." "When I started, not even in Brazil I had positive feedback on my first song", compares the artist, who started his career in 2012 and broke out nationally just four years later, with the track "Impressando angels". "Drunk Side" in Barretos Show by Gustavo Mioto on the 5th night of the Festa do Peão de Americana 2026 Thomaz Marostegan Gustavo Mioto spent the beginning of the year in Nashville, in the United States, working on the compositions and productions of this first country album. It was there that "Drunk Side" was born. The artist, who has already composed many songs inspired by his relationships, says that the inspiration for the new track came from the life he was living in the American city, known as the birthplace of country music. And then, when we arrived to compose there, Paul Bailey, who is the other composer of the song, was talking about the times he had drunk and how much he wanted to come to Brazil to experience the Brazilian parties that he still doesn't know about and so on." "And then, someone said in the circle: 'then you will get to know my worst side'." At this moment, Mioto had the idea of talking about the dangerous side of a person being the "drunk side". Barretos, but when he and his father, businessman Marcos Mioto, brought the idea to the event, it was immediately supported. The singer recorded the video for the track at the Parque do Peão arena. And, when talking about the rodeo, Gustavo states that, even after the constant changes in the musical genres of the program, the fact that an artist performs at the event continues to be a milestone in the artists' careers and has the same importance as in the past. They broke the record for participation in the line-up of the last 10 years of the event. Belo, Alexandre Pires and Pixote are some of the representatives. "The essence of Barretos remains the same, it continues to be the biggest rodeo in Latin America, one of the biggest in the world." If you don't want a festival, you have to understand the limitations that can bring. Barretos is past that. Barretos is the world and has complete freedom to do so. It doesn't lose anything, it just adds up." When asked about the opposite path - of festivals of other genres including country music in the program -, Mioto is in favor. "I've already talked about it and I took a beating on the internet. But I think that, in the same way that some artists from other genres love to play at rodeos or country events, we would also like to play the other way around." "I, at least, have no problem or prejudice with that. I would think this mixture was super cool. But we leave it up to the filmmakers to think." And could the country phase make Mioto join festivals that haven't yet opened the door to country music? "I honestly don't know, because we have no precedents. So it will be something new. If it happens, I'll think it's incredible, my intention has always been to make the backcountry bigger and always the backcountry further." "If it doesn't happen, we already know there's no point. And it's just the lack of desire to have the countryman there." Gustavo Mioto at the Festa do Peão de Americana Thomaz Marostegan/g1