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^Folks keep mentioning this "my girl done left me and my dog done died" or similar bit and they always do in conversations involving country music. They present as though they know what they speak, yet they never pinpoint or give specifics. Personally, over the past year I used Pandora to listen to country music starting in the 90's going gradually back through the 70's and I never ran into much of that stuff, especially not in a way that it ruled the genre as implied. I could be wrong, but it seems like that point (among others) is parroted by folks who really don't know what they're talking about.
I don't care if people like it and I usually don't bring it up since I have friends who like it but I do dislike the sound. It's so annoying! And the beat...I don't like the beat. Something about it doesn't make me want to move, it just makes me want to move away.
I think it's also a rural/urban difference. Most people living in the city don't like it. But it's very popular in rural and small town areas. And often in the small towns on the outskirts of large cities.
If you ever find yourself driving in the country, be SURE to take some county music with you. It will suddenly make all the sense in the world to you. And nothing else will sound as good.
It doesn't make me uncomfortable, and I like a lot of it. But I have to say t offers a lot to be made fun of, and I think that is really what it is, rather than discomfort. When I've gone to country concerts with my nieces, I see couples dressed in matching American flag shirts, young men who've never been farther south than south Jersey wearing full-length confederate flags as capes, things like that I believe are what people think is silly about it.
I like bluegrass and old pre-bluegrass & folk music, but dont like modern-day country.
I think its because bluegrass is faster, more intense, and modern-day country music is slower and more "produced" somehow. Actually, for me, except for certain artists that have caught my ear from time to time, it's boring.
In terms of lyrics both types can get pretty maudlin, so I can't say it's the subject matter.
I love music but tend to gravitate toward rock (as in Steely Dan, Daryl Hall, AC/DC, etc)
You got a problem with John Oates?
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Originally Posted by DeltaFiveTwo
I don't like it because it's all midrange and grown men having nasal and twangy voice fits.
Very hard on the ears.
Except that the vast majority of country music isn't like that at all. That stereotype comes from the days when most country radio programming consisted of bad local bands playing live in the studio using cheap instruments and vocalists singing through their noses in a feeble attempt to sound somewhat like the big artists of the day. Today, other than a few exceptions like the douchebaggy Eric Church who sing this way because they think it makes them cool, you'd be hard pressed to find any "nasal and twangy voice fits" on country radio.
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Originally Posted by ocnjgirl
It doesn't make me uncomfortable, and I like a lot of it. But I have to say t offers a lot to be made fun of, and I think that is really what it is, rather than discomfort. When I've gone to country concerts with my nieces, I see couples dressed in matching American flag shirts, young men who've never been farther south than south Jersey wearing full-length confederate flags as capes, things like that I believe are what people think is silly about it.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. I think a lot of people are unwilling to even give it a listen because of the image displayed by many of country music's most rabid fans.
I rarely like it, but only some of it makes me uncomfortable. When sung by people like Hank Williams, Jr. people I perceive as embodying a redneck lifestyle that I personally find intimidating.
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