Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time
I seriously can’t think of anything worse. I grew up listening to country music in the late 80s and early 90s, and a lot of that was pretty bad. But this new stuff, yikes.
Who sees some pretty boy on a stage with a badly exaggerated generic southern accent and a 600 dollar denim jacket shoehorning the words “ice cold beer” into every third line of a song and says “Ooh I like this, this music is for me!”
I would literally rather listen to anything else.Seriously, there’s nothing I can think of, at least not in my lifetime or the hundred or so years of recorded music I own, that seems worse.
Right on @winoguy17 @llg98ljk @tomcarr Hip hop is the poorest, closely followed by rap. Especially the stuff that incites easily impressionable people to violence rape and murder and glorifies such criminal activity. There is good rap, eg Subterranean Homesick Blues, I'm Waiting for my Man - his man was presumably a rapper, located at Lex and 125. And quite a bit of 1970s UK punk. But my superficial interest in country doesn't stretch beyond Johnny Cash, Which rather excludes modern country. |
@jpwarren58 Dylan didn't say he was playing folk when he was amplified. In fact he has always disliked dividing music into genres. |
