The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

Disco was mostly in the past (though I remember "Disco sucks!"), but I also remember being a kid parroting that "I like all music except Rap and Country" line, not realizing the sociological and demographic underpinnings of that meme statement.

I grew up early in the city. It was "I like everything but country." Then, I moved out to the burbs for high school and it became "I like everything but rap" and it was a culture shock for me. The latter was much much worse than the former.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I grew up early in the city. It was "I like everything but country." Then, I moved out to the burbs for high school and it became "I like everything but rap" and it was a culture shock for me. The latter was much much worse than the former.

I like both types of music. Country AND Western.

 

[payn]

I like both types of music. Country AND Western.

 

[prabe]

I like both types of music. Country AND Western.

RAWHIDE!

 

[eyeheartawk]

 

[CleverNickName]

When it comes to country music, I agree with Bo Burnham.
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"A Bud Lite with the logo facing out" sums it all up perfectly, IMO.

 

[Deset Gled]

When it comes to country music, I agree with Bo Burnham.
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It's a bit older, but I'll also toss this example out for consideration:



So, like, um, yeah. Maybe it's a little bit culturally insensitive to say country music is terrible. But maybe it's also true that a lot of it sounds the same and is actually kinda terrible. Just like making fun of cheap romance novels or that floppy, greasy failure of pizza they call "New York style", sometimes mass produced garbage is still garbage, no matter where it comes from.

 

[Mannahnin]

So, like, um, yeah. Maybe it's a little bit culturally insensitive to say country music is terrible. But maybe it's also true that a lot of it sounds the same and is actually kinda terrible. Just like making fun of cheap romance novels or that floppy, greasy failure of pizza they call "New York style", sometimes mass produced garbage is still garbage, no matter where it comes from.

There's also Sturgeon's Law.

But to my understanding there is good modern country out there as well. Sturgill Simpson, for example.

Now, I'm mostly not a fan of Country music as a genre, though I'm more fond of some related genres like Bluegrass. But there are certainly some exceptions, some classic Johnny Cash tunes, Hank Williams Sr., etc. Which I mostly wasn't aware of when I was a kid in the 80s parroting a virtue signal at least partially rooted in classism.

 

[Mad_Jack]

To be honest, the reason I use to not like country music as a kid was because, at the time (early-mid '80's), so much of what I was being exposed to on radio and tv was second-rate generic country-rock/pop...
Once I became aware of folks like Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntyre, etc. (i.e., the real singers and storytellers), I changed my opinion.

 

[overgeeked]

That's legit weird to me. You can't express your dislike for something because other people used their dislike of that thing decades ago as a means of bigotry. What? So everyone has to love country music or they're classist? Screw that. That's even dumber than hating country music because you're looking down your nose at rural people. Country music has sucked since they stopped singing about unions.