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


I seriously can’t think of anything worse. I grew up listening to country music in the late 80s and early 90s, and a lot of that was pretty bad. But this new stuff, yikes.

Who sees some pretty boy on a stage with a badly exaggerated generic southern accent and a 600 dollar denim jacket shoehorning the words “ice cold beer” into every third line of a song and says “Ooh I like this, this music is for me!”

I would literally rather listen to anything else.Seriously, there’s nothing I can think of, at least not in my lifetime or the hundred or so years of recorded music I own, that seems worse.

bhagal

To digress, the OP seems to be the same bot who started the REM thread. There's that same app shill in its 2nd post, just like in the REM thread. Sigh. At least we got another four page thread of dog whistles, musical one-upmanship, rap bashing, and pseudo racial stereotypes. 

simao - thanks for noticing!

Audiogon has been overrun with these bot threads for weeks now.  Every time I try to point this out, I am pretty much completely ignored.

Ironically, both this thread, as well as the R.E.M. thread, stimulated some pretty intense discussion, which is great.  The downside is that someone goes and clicks on one of the links, and ends up with some nasty malware.