Country music, at this point, is more of a political statement than an art form. I don't really see the 'country' in it anymore. I don't think there is much left of rural American life. All those 'small town' they sing about are pretty hollowed out. Country serves as the Epcot Center rural America soundtrack. It's Fox news with a backbeat, and it more or less sounds like classic rock with an occasional mandolin.
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.