Sad they didn’t mention what a disaster Country music has become over the last 5-10 years. Used to be about trucks, country girls and beer. Now it’s about beer, whiskey, moonshine, drinking in your truck bed, drinking because of country girls, and drinking because you are working class. I want a 1:35:47 YouTube video essay on the top 50 songs the last 4 years and how they became nothing but advertisements for branded alcohol and propaganda that all poor people need is a few beers or a shot of whiskey to keep being productive and “happy”.
I grew up (90’s) on local Canadian Country radio. I still tune into it on my drive to work if I don’t want to hear about boat crashes and genocide. And I sing along. But it’s fucked. I know it.
There is really good country out there, you’re just not going to hear it on Top40 stations. Darrel Scott, James McMurtry, Gillian Welsh, Lucinda Williams, and Sturgil Simpson make great music.
If you wanna keep up with artists who are putting out fire in the country/ folk genre, check out https://www.wncw.org/. Best radio station it the country IMO.
Can’t comment because I don’t listen to much hip hop. But it isn’t a far stretch to think the same factors play a roll in what music gets produced and pushed.
I don’t listen to a lot of pop hip-hop any more, but I had to drink a lot of Henny and Bombay in my late teens to early 20s because of the brands in songs and people I hung out with exclusively drinking them. I am finally starting to like Gin now that I know how to make drink and not just doing shots of it.
So true. Country music was basically a variety of folk music back in the day. Now it is a twangy variant of rock music that caters to angry right-wingers, in the same way that early rap catered to angry inner city youth.
There is still indie country out there. It’s much more about musicianship. I’m not a huge country lover, but I can definitely appreciate a talent at the fiddle or the pedal steel or whatever.
I suspect that early rap “catered” to angry inner city youth because it was created by angry inner city youth, who to a certain extent were understandably angry about their situation as inner city youth.
Sad they didn’t mention what a disaster Country music has become over the last 5-10 years. Used to be about trucks, country girls and beer. Now it’s about beer, whiskey, moonshine, drinking in your truck bed, drinking because of country girls, and drinking because you are working class. I want a 1:35:47 YouTube video essay on the top 50 songs the last 4 years and how they became nothing but advertisements for branded alcohol and propaganda that all poor people need is a few beers or a shot of whiskey to keep being productive and “happy”.
I grew up (90’s) on local Canadian Country radio. I still tune into it on my drive to work if I don’t want to hear about boat crashes and genocide. And I sing along. But it’s fucked. I know it.
There is really good country out there, you’re just not going to hear it on Top40 stations. Darrel Scott, James McMurtry, Gillian Welsh, Lucinda Williams, and Sturgil Simpson make great music.
If you wanna keep up with artists who are putting out fire in the country/ folk genre, check out https://www.wncw.org/. Best radio station it the country IMO.
Upvote for Sturgil Simpson, that guy rocks
*countrys
I’m not a big hiphop fan, but isn’t a lot of hiphop also about branded alcohol? Certainly plenty of rappers have started their own alcohol brands.
Can’t comment because I don’t listen to much hip hop. But it isn’t a far stretch to think the same factors play a roll in what music gets produced and pushed.
I don’t listen to a lot of pop hip-hop any more, but I had to drink a lot of Henny and Bombay in my late teens to early 20s because of the brands in songs and people I hung out with exclusively drinking them. I am finally starting to like Gin now that I know how to make drink and not just doing shots of it.
Gin and Juice?
So true. Country music was basically a variety of folk music back in the day. Now it is a twangy variant of rock music that caters to angry right-wingers, in the same way that early rap catered to angry inner city youth.
There is still indie country out there. It’s much more about musicianship. I’m not a huge country lover, but I can definitely appreciate a talent at the fiddle or the pedal steel or whatever.
Yes, that’s true. In fact, I think they call the new stuff “New Country” to distinguish it from the Ye Olde Country music.
My understanding is that the bulk of it is labeled “country rock”
I also think it’s hilarious how much trap and rap influence there is in a genre that is notably loved by white supremacists.
I suspect that early rap “catered” to angry inner city youth because it was created by angry inner city youth, who to a certain extent were understandably angry about their situation as inner city youth.
Here’s a short video essay about modern country music.
And here is a short video about why modern country sucks from almost a decade ago.