Worst Things About Country Music
Everyone knows what country music is. Most people know it sucks. But the question is, what sucks about it?The artists sound the same, and the songs are getting less "country." The kid who won American Idol in 2019 is the perfect example. He sounds like a hundred other country western singers, with nothing distinctive at all.
Yet, they'll make him a star, singing so-so songs. Yawn. Country music has really lost its charm, and the singers have lost true uniqueness.
Country used to be good. Now it's just the same thing over and over again. A bunch of people with southern accents singing about the Wild West and their tractors.
I dislike all country, but this is the worst. It's all about tractors and beer.
Well, coming from someone who lives in the South, that's just how people talk. To me, people from Boston or New Jersey have completely different accents, too.
It is a little rude to criticize that because it's how they were raised, and they can't change it.
The accents sound fake. They do not sound real. It feels like they are pretending.
The ONLY good country artist is probably Johnny Cash. And I love a lot of music.
Simple chords, simple rhymes. Lack of thought, lack of ingenuity. The fact that it still exists shows the complete lack of constructive thought within its listeners.
Florida Georgia Line represents stereotypical bro country music. If I have to hear "baby you're a song" one more time, I might cut my head off with a huge sword.
Cold beer on a Friday night, a pair of jeans that fit just right, and the radio on. Every country song ever.
It's always the same stuff. There is no musical visionary in this whole country music business.
I am a musician. It really bugs me when I know I'm better than these toothless hillbillies who make millions of dollars.
Simple music for simple minds!
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When you're from Chicago but you're listening to a song about loving your tractor.
They also sing about trucks, hot girls, various states (mainly in the South, Southwest, or West), beer, cheating, drunkenness, dogs, horses, rivers, etc.
It shows how far this genre has fallen.
This is true for almost everyone. Johnny Cash is an exception, in my honest opinion.
Country singers, try a little more variety!
If they're not talking about cheating, they're talking about alcohol. Being drunk and not knowing what happened is obviously bad, and singing about it where younger kids can hear is just awful.
The world already has too many problems, though some country singers are really talented!
Country music has gone from a genre about life and culture in rural America to a whole genre that supports unrealistic ideas of partying and drinking. I'm all for having a good time, but that's all it is at this point.
If Carrie Underwood's bubblegum country (specifically, country music made for the preteen pop audience) isn't bad enough, there are Luke Bryan and Florida-Georgia Line to perpetuate the bad stereotypes of country music and shamelessly exhibit them.
All the songs make it seem like the man is lucky to even be around the girl. It sets up bad expectations and false beliefs for women that men are second-rate.
Look at the songs about a man waiting around for a woman to come home and how he's so lucky, while she can wreck his plans and come home after being out with the girls. This is the very same behavior that causes marriages to fail, and country songs make it seem okay and even romanticize it.
It has turned into all the annoying disco and hip-hop you couldn't stand back in the 1970s.
"Country" music is no longer country. Go listen to anything from Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., or Waylon Jennings, and compare it to today's garbage that is called "country."
It is nothing like the classic country that has survived and been loved for decades.
This is my biggest gripe with current country music. It is not country anymore. It is crap rap. Give me the old classics.
Compare country's lyrics to rap. You will definitely not be complaining about sexual references in country music after seeing what rappers talk, not sing, about.
Every woman in a country song is reduced to a "little crazy country chick." Come on already.
I love country music, but this is the one thing I don't like. The rest is amazing.
Country music used to be about a man and a common man's problems, which I personally don't mind. But now it's shifted from that to a skinny-jeaned sorority girl fantasy.
I mean, Eminem rapped about killing his wife or killing strangers because of their sexuality (not that I'm condoning this or defending him).
But Carrie Underwood has made a song about killing her ex, and she is seen as an angel that can do no wrong. If that is the norm in country music, I do not want a part of it.