What are your opinions on Country Music?

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Some people hate it and some people love certain decades of it. For me I like it but only up till like the mid 90s. Modern Country is too much tractor rap at times

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

I’m not really a fan of it, generally. I find it hard to relate to anything “country”, just because where I’m from couldn’t possibly be any less country, haha, I just don’t have the right vibe to mesh with it, nor it with me. Good tunes are good tunes, so I try not to hate anything categorically, but I think there’s some quality to country that is essential to it being country that just doesn’t work for me. Like I don’t like most seafood because fish has a fishy aftertaste... it’s supposed to, that’s why it’s fish, but that’s just what I don’t like about it, if that analogy makes sense. I do like a lot of Willie Nelson, but that also might be because Willie is the man, period, lmao. I like some Johnny Cash too. I guess maybe I can get into a handful of songs that would probably be filed under “classic outlaw country.” I think what I really DON’T like is “modern stadium country.” I tried to check out this guy Eric Church, I hear a lot of buzz about him, and it seems like dudes who aren’t even country themselves get down with him. But it just didn’t do it for me, and I know he’s wildly popular, so at what point is it safe to say that I just generally don’t like country, with precious few exceptions? My ears and mind are open, but I think I’m really just not built for country the way it seems a lot of people aren’t built for rap, haha.

Jjpayne · Accepted Answer

I think I like it, it depends on which types of country music  For me, these artists stand out as some of my favorites

KBird · Accepted Answer

Growing up in Calgary, I was always surrounded by country music. Its our city's anthem, like our biggest casino and nightclub is Cowboys.
Sometimes Im in the mood for it, but most of the time I can't stand it. It all sounds the same to me. BUT, if I want to go out and have a fun night with girlfriends, I love a good line-dance at Ranchmans, especially when I can ride the mechanical bull. :)

DeeDeeDeVour · Accepted Answer

Country Music ain't my "cup of tea" but I have enjoyed listening to songs from Shania Twain, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, The Judds and even the country songs of the the 'King of Rock & Roll' himself, Elvis Presley.

Craftsman · Answer

I really liked the country music of the early 1970s because I was a square dancer/round dancer/clogger at the time. It was a wonderful way of making contact with others and being social. There was a lot of positive in the concept, "square dancers do it in groups of 8."
I would agree that country music got contaminated by progress in other forms of music. The same can be said of all forms of music from the first stick-and-hollow-log drumming on. Things change. Tastes change. And music changes. I'm not going to say any genre of music is perfect, and some music is downright bad. That's my opinion, and it differs from the opinion of others. It is those differences that keep music evolving and developing, and overall I think that's a good thing.

MysteriousDarkness · Answer

I like country music from the early days until now. My favorite are the 1990s.

Alan Jackson - Gone Country

https://youtu.be/si-ja75bFvI

Patty Loveless - Lonely Too Long

https://youtu.be/HIc_S432vbU

LeAnn Rimes - The Light In Tour Eyes

https://youtu.be/LwnNAAC8_co

Toby Keith - Should've Been A Cowboy

https://youtu.be/aIq1LvzSLsk

courtney06 · Answer

I’m fine with country but I don’t go out of my way to listen to it. Maybe that will change. My first CD was Shania Twain. I think I was about 9 or 10 at the time. I also like that Stone Temple Pilots has some country influence and I listen to them a lot.

DamnSam · Answer

I like some sub-genres of country because basically its a kind of folk music, and I hear folk every day

A person needs a lot of skill to play a banjo like country bands do... plus, country music invented a unique instrument made of several different instrument parts...
I can't remember tge englush name of it (in german we call it a "stampfe", or in slang a "stompfm")

Still pretty expensive instruments with almost no one who can explain how to play it...

Inquisitive3 · Answer

I love some of it but mostly older country. Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Merl Haggard, Johnny Cash. It's down to earth. <3

Sheyhoney · Answer

I used to hate it but after hearing a couple of love songs I actually kinda like it now. Not to the point where I know artists and stuff but It’s not bad like I thought it would be

Bat-Perv · Answer

It good.

lightbulb27 · Answer

I liked a few songs where I could learn and feel something new, like "Coal Miners Daughter", Johnny Cash.  But most of it... I'm glad they built radios with off buttons.

pigoat · Answer

All i know is that country music performers get a lot of supports on singing competitions  Yes most of those country singing contestants perform oldee country songs The classics Says a lot

Hooke22 · Answer

I think a lot of it seems based on a world that never existed but as well as this I've the way songs tell a story and certain artistes are masters and mistresses of human emotions in love affairs and the songs often involve thoughts about God which are simple and commendable. I'm not sure that the music constitutes the original folk music of America... it has moved in a broad sweep away from its roots.

IAMNathanael · Answer

The country music I like is Jonny Cash "I fell in to a burning ring of fire.  I went down down down and the flames went higher"

cjs31380 · Answer

I would agree country was definitely the best in the early mid 90s

silvermoon84 · Answer

I like country music from the fifties up to the early 2000’s, as well as some of today’s country. Not a fan of the country rap stuff though

LeilaLe · Answer

Personally, I'm not a country music fan which sucks when living in south TX. There are a few country songs I actually enjoy but it's only a handful.

Phoenix98 · Answer

I like it, it's one of the main things I listen to. That being said there are country artists I don't like and there are ones I do like. Every genre has bad ones and good ones.

Beabi · Answer

I grew up to my dad always playing John Denver songs. I like country music, but I seldom listen to it

NorthwestRider · Answer

Not all country music is tractor rap, you do have songs like this

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I haven’t been exposed to it very much since I don’t have access to a radio where I live due to interference by other machines but 30 years ago I had a babysitter who always played country music and I liked dancing to it

rachel776 · Answer

1990 was when the big change happened, music after that is called "the Nashville sound"

Suzzz334 · Answer

I grew up in Nashville so it was difficult to get away from country music. I like all music. My favorite music is more certain artist then genres.

EaterPeter · Answer

Same as yours. I was born and raised in India. Hindi movie songs are very popular in India. In India there is a thing that movie music was great till 90s. And there are very many people who believe that. I can understand your point of view and relate with it.

JEndigoBleue · Answer

Love Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn... Dolly Pardon, Kenny Rogers, Willy Nelson, etc... I'm more old school country.

invalid1 · Answer

It's SO GOOD. I am developing my passion for it.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Yeah, I like some older country music but no new country

gemgem · Answer

Yeah I like real country songs but most new songs are just pop music with flannel shirts and cowboy hats

douride2 · Answer

Like most other forms of music. Some of it I like then other songs not so much.

MarkRet · Answer

I used to really hate country music. I’m still not a fan of it, but I’ve grown a lot more tolerant of it over the decades, as long as it’s not too twangy.

EssenceOfLight · Answer

Some older pieces are interesting because of lyrics.

Massageman · Answer

Yup. "Prime Country" on SiriusFM channel 58 is a great example! 80's, 90's. Strait, AJ, Garth, Reba, Twain, Keith, etc. "Modern" CW jumped the shark and drowned.

JackofSpades · Answer

I like it for the most part.

I'm not a fan of nasally vocals tho.

And unfortunately it's really common in country, bluegrass and Irish music. All of which I'd love, if they didn't sing like Mandark from Dexter's Lab

Snakeyes7 · Answer

It’s ok I guess but I can see why people like it. Some are good but it’s not my go to genre.

MecheD · Answer

I believe it’s a necessity as a lot of other genres. It speaks to the struggle of a lot of poverty stricken whites and its other guest in that genre.

lsjr16 · Answer

Country music is not bad there is some great artist in that genre

w0810lv · Answer

Yeah I think your right mid 90s was the last good country music look at garth brooks even people who don't like country listen to him.

hahahmm · Answer

I like any music that tells a story which includes some country.

HikerDude · Answer

I love country, and like you, my interest in it ended about 1992. My favorite era of country is 70s Outlaw music.

joesheks · Answer

It was good until the late 1990s. Today’s singers are wannabe rap “talkers” with little talent and no appreciation for tradition. I refuse to listen to it.

masonderek6994 · Answer

It's not really country these days. It stopped being true country late 90's to early 2000's. Today is mostly pop garbage and other garbage they try to call country. A lot of the new stuff you can't even understand

siseñor · Answer

when it's good, it's good. when it's bad, it's worse.

foodOlivia · Answer

Country music is my jam check out  Kiefer Sutherland

Gosceewual · Answer

I like some hit classic oldie country songs like from gta San Andreas. But most of the time I find it annoying

Iknowbestgirls · Answer

Country music fucking sucks! As a metal head I just can't stand country music.  Listen to better music like heavy/ thrash/ black / death metal!!

AdithyaR · Answer

Never really heard much, always been a pop music fan.

OddBeMe · Answer

Seems like it’s a culture genre... like rap. People religiously listen to it. I go song by song and my iPod playlists are a smorgasbord or genres.

Bubbles45 · Answer

It's nice to relax and listen to

legalboxers · Answer

Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert

mrkdvsn · Answer

It's irritating to have to listen to, but not as bad as Rap/HipHop

boxcarjoe · Answer

Its garbage i listen to litteraly every other genre

bamesjond0069 · Answer

I like country music with good Christian lyrics. If you can't play it at church dont play it at all.

najekim · Answer

Don't care for country music at all with the exception of Johnny Cash. But I enjoy Bluegrass.

msc545 · Answer

I don't particularly like country music. As far as I'm concerned it should be called redneck music.

sheikalana · Answer

Used to love Shania Twain when I was a kid.

TheAfrikan · Answer

Anything country am in for it. There is a way it makes me feel.

SphynxUK · Answer

I really don’t like it. It grates on me.

BCRanger10 · Answer

Modern "country" music is garbage.

SpiderManFan2002 · Answer

It’s not my thing🤷🏾‍♀️

Nikki1989 · Answer

I hate it, but I have tried to like it many times.

dianagirl · Answer

I love it.

Eliiiiii · Answer

Not the type of music i am into.

Sia_nee · Answer

I love love it!

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