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I’m ready for the country hate. Here’s some YouTube links.
Cast Iron Pansexual by Adeem the Artist
For some classic class consciousness:
Those all sound more like folk music than country music.
Where do you draw the line?
You just crossed the line!
Message sure, but with the sound itself (the vocals and the steel guitar) you can definitely call that country. Same with the other user with the song by Alabama.
There’s such a huge difference between the sound and lyrical stylings in the genres, the line separating them is an entire ocean. 🤨
I’m probably not cultured enough. I have heard modern country that resembles pop music. Taylor Swift tried that new fangled rapping after all.
Buy This Truck by The Grammar Club: Trolling
You might know about Marty Robbins of Big Iron fame, but I’m here to tell you that the entire Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album is a nonstop parade of bangers.
Although Marty himself had some problematic views about snti-Vietnam war folks, I still love his music.
My advice? Skip the country music, focus on western music.
Not even Jerry Reed? Merle Haggard? Johnny Cash!??
Country is a weird genre.
In NO OTHER genre do you hear an accent by default, and it’s more or less required for country. That twang, the drawl. Its playing in the background of the dive bar I’m at right now.
If you get someone from the deep south to sing alongside someone from the Netherlands, alongside a french person, maybe a Russian for kicks, the only genre you’ll notice they aren’t from the same country in country music will you hear where they are from. But not really because like any music its an affectation.
Conclusion: country music is fake bullshit made to pander to fucking stupid people who think their redneck culture exists, rather than being just profitable. 😁
Plenty of hip hop has all sorts of accents. Also, there’s no such thing as “no accent”.
Listen to your average unknown random song and tell me where the people who sing it came from. Thats what I mean by no accent. It doesn’t exist in language, but it VERY MUCH exists in music. A-accent is the default for singing.
Hip hop I question that, but rap i could see because I’ve heard rap in other languages and being spoken poetry that does pick up a bit, but it isn’t characteristic of the music, and you still usually cant tell unless you understand the specific language… so id give that as a maybe at best.
Warning: YouTube link
My favorite part of that set is how he adopts the accent in the lead-up to the jokes. Im big on language, always have been a mimic, and I notice the code switch. I assume he does it unconsciously to put himself in the mindset for the rest of the jokes.
But yea thats how I feel about it, always have.
There is actually some good country, but it’s never played on the radio. Artists like Sturghill Simpson, Cody jinks, and Tyler Childers really saved country for me
Yeah, and does bluegrass count as country? Because some people can absolutely shred on the banjo
I would put in the same ecosystem. And yeah Billy strings gets it.
Childers is maybe the best of this generation.
Not sure quite where Corb Lund falls, sometimes blues, sometimes country, and others yodeling, but he is worthy of any music collection
I mean there is good country especially pre 2000 and outside the mainstream.
But there is also so much good non-country music.
Lmfao Trve
I have 2: Johnny Cash and Oliver Anthony
