To digress, the OP seems to be the same bot who started the REM thread. There's that same app shill in its 2nd post, just like in the REM thread. Sigh. At least we got another four page thread of dog whistles, musical one-upmanship, rap bashing, and pseudo racial stereotypes.
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.
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@tylermunns Agreed, but also they're two completely different iterations of the genre: one steeped in the traditions of bluegrass and frontier folk, while modern country is a cousin of contemporary rock, specifically southern rock and Americana. Having played in an alt-country band for many years, it was interesting to see the audience reaction when we covered much of the canon of those you named versus when we would throw in a Kenny Chesney, Brothers Osbourne, Eric Church, or similar modern artists. The former always elicited a lot more smiles and applause than the latter. Usualy because the audience was older. |