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I don't like jazz. I didn't know why I didn't like jazz so while I was in college in the 1970s, I took a class on it. I figured if I learned more about it I might like it better. I got an A in the class (which had required concert attendance) and I still don't like jazz. I'm talking contemporary jazz. It's too musically erratic for me.
I'm a late comer to country music and interestingly (or not) I like the stuff that is more pure country than country with rock overtones. Also, I prefer male country singers although, I'm okay with duets.
I haven't listened to rock in over a decade.
I think the I-Tunes Genius just throws up its hands when I buy music and thinks "Who the bleep knows what to recommend to this one. She's all over the place."
I don't know - the popular artists of the day (late fifties, early sixties). I heard these songs on the radio when in the car with my "poor" friends and their families.
To my ears, this music was hick-ish, hill-billy, twangy, unmusical, unlyrical, and kind of dumb (to my ears it would sound like a really ignorant cartoon character with buck teeth laughing in a "Yuk Yuk" kind of toothless, mindless way. I perceived it as very low class (mostly having to do with intelligence level, not money, per se).
When I think of buck teeth I think of Robert Ripley (Ripley's Believe It Or Not) who was known and teased for his buck teeth. He was from San Francisco. He drew cartoons.
I've never cared for country music. Still, some of the older singers were very good.
Hank Williams (not his son) was one of the best. And IMO is the originator of a lot of what is now country music. If you've never heard him you owe it to you yourself to listen (very carefully} to a couple of his songs.
^I think it's odd how Hank Williams and his son are so different.
I'm not so sure about that. They were both doing music that was kind of extreme and cutting edge for its day. If HWJr and done music more like his father - music that was decades old, he would have been more traditionalist/conservative than his father was.
I'm not so sure about that. They were both doing music that was kind of extreme and cutting edge for its day. If HWJr and done music more like his father - music that was decades old, he would have been more traditionalist/conservative than his father was.
Hank Williams Jr. is to Hank Williams as Desi Arnaz Jr. is to Desi Arnaz.
I don't like jazz. I didn't know why I didn't like jazz so while I was in college in the 1970s, I took a class on it. I figured if I learned more about it I might like it better. I got an A in the class (which had required concert attendance) and I still don't like jazz. I'm talking contemporary jazz. It's too musically erratic for me.
I'm a late comer to country music and interestingly (or not) I like the stuff that is more pure country than country with rock overtones. Also, I prefer male country singers although, I'm okay with duets.
I haven't listened to rock in over a decade.
I think the I-Tunes Genius just throws up its hands when I buy music and thinks "Who the bleep knows what to recommend to this one. She's all over the place."
I have a friend, Johnny, who hates jazz, too.
I agree about contemporary jazz, by the way. The beauty of country-western is that I know the notes and lyrics even before they're played. Nothing erratic about that.
I agree about contemporary jazz, by the way. The beauty of country-western is that I know the notes and lyrics even before they're played. Nothing erratic about that.
Country music seems to make a lot of people uncomfortable. People often feel the need to go out of the way and make sure to communicate they don't like country music, even when the genre isn't otherwise brought up; often times in online profiles or when answering what kind of music they like, people will provide an answer something similar to "anything but country". I've always thought there's something psychological going on, but I can't quite put my finger on it. People generally don't think much about things they don't like and are simply indifferent to them, that is unless those things bother them somehow - which is a phenomenon we see with homosexuality, fraternities and sororities, jocks, and Nascar. I hope what I mean with that last sentence is clear. All of those things are stuff people have feelings about and feel the need to talk about even when they supposedly don't like them. Anyway, so what gives? Any ideas?
There is a negative connotation to many things that are associated with "The South" in this country. I heard a lot of negative things growing up from many people in Massachusetts (where I'm from) and interestingly, it came from people off all races and walks of life. When I was a kid, I used to go out of my way to say how much I didn't like country music (which is funny since I hadn't heard much of it growing up in that part of the country AND because the little bit I had heard I really liked) which I think was partially subconscious or wanting to "save face".
Interestingly, I've heard younger southern folks say this too which always struck me as odd... like they are trying to distant themselves from southern culture.
I lived in Texas for 6 yrs in my mid 30's and all I heard all damn day was country music -- almost felt like I didn't have a choice... and you know what? Now I love it. lol
And... I admit it.
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