Do you like country music and why or why not?

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CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

I like  very specific  kinds of country music. I’ll do gothic country and bluegrass all day long. I will NOT listen to christian country music, I don’t want to hear christian hymns with a country twang and an acoustic guitar like it’s deeper than hearing it in an actual church. Cowboy country I also won’t listen to, with exception to Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash and only them. Most country music made after 9/11 is just so painfully “patriotic” that it makes me barf the stars and stripes to hear the blatant boot licking. However, if it’s a song that’s actually criticizing the systems in which we live, I’m more open to it. Songs like Stars and Stripes by Julie Lavery or Where My Outlaws At by Bryan Andrews.

Nikki1989 · Accepted Answer

Nope. I hate country, rap/hip-hop and probably at least 95% of all pop music released in the past 40 years. The cringey, repetitive themes in country music are just too much to take. I know repetitive themes exist in other genres too, but in country music, they are the most repetitive of all the genres.

Then you have the cookie-cutter mentality of country artists who recycle everything to death. Country artists will even recycle their very own songs. There is certainly nothing innovative or exciting about the country. It is as banal as rap.

Lliam · Accepted Answer

I like a lot of older country music from the 50's up through the '70s. Artists like Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Vaughn Monroe, Carl Perkins, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Frankie Lane, etc. were unique and wrote wonderful lyrics.

But modern country music is uncreative and formulaic. Strictly commercial. People who were raised in the northeast singing pop or watered down rock with a Texas twang about pickup trucks and cornfields, backed up by a fiddle and peddle steel guitar in the band to distinguish it as "country".

KostasKouvalis · Accepted Answer

I like GOOD Country And of course...

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

I enjoy some country music, especially the more storytelling, folk-leaning stuff 🎶
I love songs that paint pictures, like old-school Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, or more modern artists who blend country with pop or rock. The emotional honesty and simple, relatable lyrics work for me. I’m less into the super commercial, cliché “truck and beer” songs, but the soulful ones? Totally my vibe. 🤠✨

Beckybooboo · Answer

I grew up listening to 80's and 90ish country music (my dad was a huge fan). I never listened to it, outside of what he would play, so, I really don't know post 90 singers. I liked Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Steve Wariner, Faith Hill, some Reba... I also really like the Nitty Gritty Dirt band! They're way before my time.

Calyptomaniac · Answer

I will be banned from ever returning to my homeland for this, but no. The last country music I liked was probably Alison Krause and some select people even older than that. Modern country music is pop. I mean, they let things Beyonce does be called "country"...

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I actually loathe it.
Why: it's repetitive, stereotypical, commercial, conservative, schmaltzy.
To me it also typically represents fuck-up trucks, mindless beer drinking and probably some school shooting as well.
Summary: songs for people I can't identify with.

OneViewpoint · Answer

I didn't used to like country. Except for the really old icons. I looked down on it to tell the truth. But in the last 25 years I've spent time in Nashville and met some of the musicians behind the music. They are EXCELLENT! And I started listening to country a lot more. It's changed. It's gone back to its roots in many cases. Hard hitting songs with intelligent lyrics. Yeah, I like country music.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I kinda like the older stuff, especially Terxas Swing from the `40's or `50's. Pretty much anything from the late `80's onwards, I don't like. It's too repetitive and the people making it seem to be more interested in showing off how much money they have rather than making good music.

aquamarine321 · Answer

I do like country, even though it's not my first choice when it comes to listening to music, I do like the calmness it gives me, thinking about it, it kinda reminds me and kinda gives me a calm and relaxed feeling like listening to reggae music that is in my country, Jamaica

Mike_Hum · Answer

i like a lot of country music but not all. Don't care for bro country (beer beer truck girls beer truck dog) but do like some songs. I tend to like more traditional country country-rock or alt-country like Sturgill, Tyler Childers, Ryan Bigham, Red Clay Strays, Turnpike Troubadors, etc.

msc545 · Answer

I like the rhythm and the beat more of it than I ever thought I would. That being said, the lyrics don't always do a lot for me. I particularly, however, like country music that plays with those interesting instruments being used, like a pedal steel guitar. I love the sound of that instrument. I wish to God it wasn't so complicated, because otherwise, I might attempt to learn to play one.

MrChinaski · Answer

It's kinda slow and about life on farms and stuff that almost nobody ever does anymore and how lonely and boring life is because there aren't any good looking sheilas in town.

So... err... no. But good for you if you do.

NathanDavis · Answer

surprisingly... I really haven't listened to much of it, nor I got too curious about it so, it's more like me being indifferent to it, or neutral might be a better word for it

Anonymous · Answer

Yes though most modern country music is basically pop music with a banjo or steel guitar.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

I like having a chevy in my truck.

Jen_oic · Answer

@stevethecoolguy  yes but of course I do

mrkdvsn · Answer

Never cared for "country" music. Possibly because I was not raised with it. But "rap" is much worse. My favorite is "progressive rock"

laurieluvsit · Answer

The newer Country Rock definitely. The old 'Her Cheating Heart' stuff, not so much.

ibodi · Answer

yes I do but I understand why people in your culture think that is just old for the reason.

Cidknee · Answer

Yes. Not what's been put out the last 30 years I don't. But before that I love it. Say up until the mid 90s it was great. Then it became pop/country wanna be.

Anonymous · Answer

Country music, specifically mainstream is basically pop music with a country flare.  If you hate pop music, you hate country.

exitseven · Answer

I like all kinds of music, Country AND Western

AngryCarl3 · Answer

It's actually one of my least favourite music genres.

Alex-Snow · Answer

I like maybe a couple of songs but it is really not my thing.

Iron_Man · Answer

Yes I do. There’s many good songs out there. Let me get one for you now.

queenofcardio · Answer

I like country pop if that counts.

loveslongnails · Answer

Old country, yes. New country is shit.

Shiprex · Answer

It's ok but not as an only genre

Anonymous · Answer

Nope, not my genre at all.

Anonymous · Answer

Very, very little.

tonita926 · Answer

I used to not like it but over time it grew on me.

oldman26 · Answer

Some

Nurse_Meyers_88 · Answer

I do, yes.

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