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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So which song is on the left?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can we start a petition to make the good "country" music be called something else and all of the any other genre, but with a fake accent and nationalism just be country? The name is tainted by decades of shit music and shit people that only care about WHITE MERICA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The settled on term is "alt country", though a lot of country fans prefer to other modern mainstream radio country as "bro country" since alt country implies that alt country is a departure from traditional country despite being more of a return to classical roots than an intended presentation of departure from the norm. I often tell people if Johnny Cash or Dolly Parton were starting their careers today they'd definitively be put in the alt country bucket.

Which also gets me to an important point I wish more people would take into consideration: genre is a constructed element of music, largely stemming less from artistic movements and more from radio formats. The modern day music landscape has much less to do with artistic expression and much more to do with what advertisers thinks will sell tires, cheap beer, and fast food combo meals. Even deconstructed genres like hyperpop stem from the record industries need to assign everything to a specific radio format and artists wanting to put a spotlight on the commercialization of one of humanities oldest endeavors (song / dance).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Other way around for me.

Theres country, and there sugar (read:twang) colored pop for those who dont want to admit they only listen to pop music.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Drive-By Truckers would like a word with you, sir.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

There's still some outlaw type country out there. Just have to search more.

Ford truck month country is a blight tho

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah it's country music , it's always bene garbage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Country is a complex and varied genre. For every garbage ass Kenny Chesney out there, there's a Sam Gleeves, Dori Freeman, Shovels and Rope, or Dead South doing something interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hey now, there is still good country

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Then there's Dixon Dallas:

He's bouncing off my booty cheeks, I love the way he rides

I can hardly breathe when he's pumping deep inside

I kiss him on his neck and then he kisses on my bussy

Call him daddy while I holler "Man, that boy so damn good lookin'!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Dam, always thought he spelled it Dicksin Dallas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

That is impressively out there. Good for them!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Country music is the lowest form of music, below music for toddlers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you havent heard country music then

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Downvoted by radio-listeners. Country is great, anyone who says "Live at Folsom Prison" isn't one of the best live albums of all time is, ironically, a toddler. Pop country is trash and has been trash for decades.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

its the same as saying all rap is for gangsters and pimps and thats all they talk about

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What bro country sounds like to people who don't like bro country https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I knew what channel it'd be before clicking. "What RHCP sounds like to people who don't like RHCP" is an instant cult classic

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Every time I make fun of country I’ll sing some made up lyrics like “got a girl in my truck and my truck in my beer” so I definitely laughed when I heard this parody because it’s basically the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Country music in the 50s: I tripped and fell into a burning ring of fire and fell down down down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Translation:

Fell in love with a married woman and I'm going to burn in hell for my sins cause I'm a bad man

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