Why Country Music Is Awful in 2013

[AUChizad]

And pretty much always.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

And pretty much always.

Wasn't always that way. 

Used to be about heartbreak



And feminism



And diversity




And musicianship


And influencing rock and roll, not the other way around

[AU_Tiger_2000]

And why does YouTube not auto embed anymore?

[AUChizad]

And why does YouTube not auto embed anymore?

It does, but you have to use the short link.

I agree, by the way. I like the kind of country you posted above. It's long gone though.

[Saniflush]

It does, but you have to use the short link.

I agree, by the way. I like the kind of country you posted above. It's long gone though.

"The new country acts have done to country music, what panty hose did to finger fucking. They've ruined it. They've God damn ruined it."
-Waylon Jennings

[GH2001]

True true to what Au 2000 and others said. It used to be true. Real people singing bout real shit. Now it's all about just coming up with a gimmick and selling records. And doing whatever the producer says to do.

[Lurking Tiger]

Country music sucks. It has always sucked. It will always suck.

[AUChizad]

Johnny Cash
Hank Williams, Sr.
David Allen Coe
Steve Earle
Jerry Reed

All awesome.

Bluegrass = awesome.

Basically anything on any country radio station since I've been alive = pure shit. Very few exceptions, especially in the modern era. Old Crow Medicine Show and Zac Brown Band being the only two exceptions that come to mind.

[GH2001]

Country music sucks. It has always sucked. It will always suck.

If were talking about talent and originality I surely hope you are kidding. I know taste is subjective but the country artists of old were über talented.

Almost all genres of music now can be traced back to country and blues. 

[CCTAU]

If were talking about talent and originality I surely hope you are kidding. I know taste is subjective but the country artists of old were über talented.

Almost all genres of music now can be traced back to country and blues.

In a world where "good hip hop still exists", I laugh at this thread!

[Jumbo]

I only listen to country music and I don't give a fuck if y'all don't like it. #yolo

[Kaos]

"Country" music was killed in 1989 when it was pussified by the fraud Garth Brooks.  Yes, I realize he looked to KISS for inspiration and stole much of his stage show from what they had done over the years, but that pudgy clown was about as country as Vladimir Putin. He wore a cowboy hat and boots but hadn't ever been within 100 yards of an actual cow. Kenny Rogers had set the stage for the demise, but Fart Brooks took it to the edge and pushed.

From there the dancing on the grave began:  Brooks and Dunn (homos), Clint Black (talentless hack), pie-faced Travis Tritt, Vegas lounge sleaze Marty Stuart, nutless Vince Gill, cocaine Randy, Trisha, perma smirk Reba, Toby Keith, Joe Mullet Diffie, Billy Ray Virus, pablum spewing Alabama, Kenny Gaynessney and the entire cabal of watered down wailers like them ruined the genre. 

I love bluegrass music.  I'm a huge fan of cajun/zydeco.  Clifton Chenier, Boozoo, Delafose? That's some awesome stuff. 

But then you hear hillbilly hacks like Alan Jackson co-opt that kind of awesome work into his reeking garbage and it just makes you angry.  I wanted to drown Jackson's skinny ass down yonder on the chattahoochee.

That's how we got to today.  Good acts with real talent can break through for a moment, but they're smothered by the crush of corporate assclowns who dress, sound and act the same. 

I agree with Tom Petty. Country music today is really bad 80s/90s rock with a violin tossed in.  My kids can listen to anything in this house from rap to classical to big band to rock to whatever.  But not country.  Country music isn't allowed in here. 

FWIW, that video looked like a douchebag convention. 

[GH2001]

"Country" music was killed in 1989 when it was pussified by the fraud Garth Brooks.  Yes, I realize he looked to KISS for inspiration and stole much of his stage show from what they had done over the years, but that pudgy clown was about as country as Vladimir Putin. He wore a cowboy hat and boots but hadn't ever been within 100 yards of an actual cow. Kenny Rogers had set the stage for the demise, but Fart Brooks took it to the edge and pushed.

From there the dancing on the grave began:  Brooks and Dunn (homos), Clint Black (talentless hack), pie-faced Travis Tritt, Vegas lounge sleaze Marty Stuart, nutless Vince Gill, cocaine Randy, Trisha, perma smirk Reba, Toby Keith, Joe Mullet Diffie, Billy Ray Virus, pablum spewing Alabama, Kenny Gaynessney and the entire cabal of watered down wailers like them ruined the genre. 

I love bluegrass music.  I'm a huge fan of cajun/zydeco.  Clifton Chenier, Boozoo, Delafose? That's some awesome stuff. 

But then you hear hillbilly hacks like Alan Jackson co-opt that kind of awesome work into his reeking garbage and it just makes you angry.  I wanted to drown Jackson's skinny ass down yonder on the chattahoochee.

That's how we got to today.  Good acts with real talent can break through for a moment, but they're smothered by the crush of corporate assclowns who dress, sound and act the same. 

I agree with Tom Petty. Country music today is really bad 80s/90s rock with a violin tossed in.  My kids can listen to anything in this house from rap to classical to big band to rock to whatever.  But not country.  Country music isn't allowed in here. 

FWIW, that video looked like a douchebag convention.

George jones was the fucking man.

Same goes for hank, willie, merle and Johnny.

That is all.

[djsimp]

George jones was the fucking man.

Same goes for hank, willie, merle and Johnny.

That is all.

I can dig it.

[Kaos]

George jones was the fudgeing man.

Same goes for hank, willie, merle and Johnny.

That is all.

Garth Brooks killed them all

[Jumbo]

Florida Georgia Line, Eric Church, Eli Young, Luke Bryan & Jason Aldean are the new face of country and I love it.

[Kaos]

Florida Georgia Line, Eric Church, Eli Young, Luke Bryan & Jason Aldean are the new face of country and I love it.

Big and Rich lite.

All suck.

Sorry.

[GH2001]

Big and Rich lite.

All suck.

Sorry.

Eric church is actually real anti establishment/nash-mopolitan sound. He's pretty genuine. I like him. Yokam and George jones were the same way.

[Snaggletiger]

Florida Georgia Line, Eric Church, Eli Young, Luke Bryan & Jason Aldean are the new face of country and I love it.

I'm okay with a lot of the "country" music today.  Honestly, there's not much country about most of it.  Pop music with a steel guitar thrown in to put it in that category. 

[AUChizad]

I'm okay with a lot of the "country" music today.  Honestly, there's not much country about most of it.  Pop music with a steel guitar thrown in to put it in that category.

And an annoying Kermit-The-Frog-If-He-Were-A-Redneck voice.

The biggest example of this: