Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time

@baylinor My bad on the question mark, corrected - my apologies.

Got it, good points made. I still do believe that when it comes to majorities, something that resonates with someone's culture wil usually be easier to absorb. Obviously there are always exceptions. I think that anyone who loves country should keep enjoying it. I will not, no biggie.

@larsman 

I hear you about reggae. Love me some Uprising, but ran out of ganja long ago lol.

I spent three months in Europe in the fall of '82, traveling around via a Eurail pass. I used my sister's apartment as my "base camp" (she was in the Navy, stationed in Stuttgart, but lived off-base), and in December she and I went to a nearly mall to shop for Christmas. The mall was 2-leveled, with an open area in the middle. I was upstairs and heard music emanating from the open area, so walked over to the rail and looked down. The music was being played by an American Country outfit, and all the Germans stopped what they were doing and watched and listened attentively, applauding appreciatively at the end of each song. A better audience than many American ones, I wager. 

The OP got me thinking. Seems over the years I have heard (and myself said) similar remarks about "current" music of this sort or that. I believe that what happens is that over time, the true artist shake out from all the fluff and go on to become big, often evolving tremendously.  Guess the music scene has always been this way.