Everyone may *think* they hate country music, but when Jolene, Before He Cheats, Take Me Home Country Roads, or Life is a Highway comes on, everyone is suddenly a liar.
I know this is a funny post but
There are a few major points in Country Music’s history that got the entire genre labeled as ‘annoying’
- Post 9/11 nationalism
- A term that I couldn’t make up “Bro-Country” which intensifies themes of booze, objectifying women, and partying that were present in past decades but not to such an extent
- This is Gospel Music But With an Accent
Now looking at the songs op listed there is
- A woman pleading to another woman
- A woman wrecking a shitheads life
- A guy loving the scenery of where he lived
- A song that could easily be mistaken for a number of other genres
But it is easier to say that one hates country while privately enjoying select songs than explain why one doesn’t like the current market oversaturated with our nation’s problems of nationalism, sexism, and so on
It’s the songs written by record labels with the same themes and the same tone and the same empty meanings that kill country music. It’s just the same ideas thrown into the aether again and again with keywords designed to get the attention of the consumers who’ll keep coming back for it.
