country music?
| alright, so country music exists. I've been kind of stumped on why it exists for a while, when it occurred to me that some people might genuinely like country music. so this was a revelation. I hadn't seriously considered the possibility before. I just didn't think it was logical. so my question is, does anyone on mal genuinely enjoy listening to country music? and why? of course, everyone genre of music is filled with crap, but I've personally noticed an overwhelming amount of crap in this particular genre. for instance, this is an example of country lyrics that country music fans seem to legitimately take seriously: why? also if anyone happens to have some fun facts about how people acquire a certain taste in music, those would be appreciated. discuss |
| every genre of music is filled with crap, but I've personally noticed an overwhelming amount of crap in this particular genre. |
| I don't have enough chromosomes to enjoy it. |
| I'd say it is impossible to not like this But then I remember I'm on an anime website |
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| It started with hill billy and everyone still thinks it's hill billy. Because it is. |
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| I like good traditional country, alt country and bluegrass. What i fucking hate is the pop country with pretty people from florida or california or new zealand doing horrible generic made up nashville accents. That ruins country music's credibility. Those people need shooting. |
| Naw I hate country music, I just hate the sound of it. I'm not particularly a huge fan of the acoustic guitar. |
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| i enjoy country music from any other country besides the USA. |
eturnity said: i enjoy country music from any other country besides the USA. fair enough then. Here you go |
| I remember going to my first job and all those people did was play country on their radio. Shit puts me to sleep. |
| Yes I do. I'm absolutely not a fan of Taylor Swift's fake southern drawl in her country songs. |
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| I like it if it's sung by Suzumura Kenichi. Otherwise, nah. |
| country music is like, legit garbage, and I have a huge musical palate, that not only ranges across genres but also countries. Alternative country or indie country can be good, but country on it's own (like Tim Mcgraw or whatever his dumb red neck name is) is crap poop |
| I grew up with a father that listened to nothing but the country from the 90's, and a grandma that listened to the oldies. I like Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, johnny cash, etc. I can't stand the new shit though. Luckily, I exposed myself to Punk Rock, metal, indie, alt rock, 80's rock, grunge, and everything else good in the musical world, otherwise I would be totally screwed up musically, trying to win women's hearts with a tractor and a beer. |
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| My ears can't support country music ... Uuuuh. |
| You really think this is the typical Country lyircs? What's your research? Listening to the radio? Drive-By Truckers, Colt Ford, The Bottle Rockets, 16 Horsepower, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins. And I haven't even explored country in-depth or got into Bluegrass. DBT is a candidate for the best rock band ever. Maybe you're just a destination, a place for me to go A way to keep from having to deal with my seventeen-year-old mind all alone Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight By the time you drop them I'll be gone And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life He never drove a new car though he could easily afford it He'd just buy one for the family and take whatever no one wanted He said a shiny car didn't mean much after all the things he'd seen George A. never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima She said "I can bend my arms until they're backward But you can't bend your will to take in mine And I could hold my breath until next Wednesday And still be doing fine" |
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| I don't care for the genre but there are a few songs that I can handle. If I did like it I'd be living in the perfect area though. |
| Some of it is pretty good. |
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| I hate it, and that's only because I live in rural Canada and the only people who listen to it are annoying farmer girls who love horseback riding |
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| I like Taylor Swift's music Oh wait..... |
| I actually legitimately enjoy it sometimes, usually just when driving around in the summer and I can just shut my brain off and daydream. Though, I fully realize a lot of it's crap. inb4 hate. Though I listen to pretty much everything except for dubstep and whatever the hell Lil' Wayne is, so I guess it doesn't say much. |
| Because the old stuff is the best, Johhny Cash for example |
| I've been here way too long... |
baseball3b said: That's when country music is the best!I actually legitimately enjoy it sometimes, usually just when driving around in the summer and I can just shut my brain off and daydream. Though, I fully realize a lot of it's crap. inb4 hate. Though I listen to pretty much everything except for dubstep and whatever the hell Lil' Wayne is, so I guess it doesn't say much. |
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| Bluegrass, which is a subgenre of Country, is great. |
| If they do, something is wrong with them,go see a doctor!! |
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| That's a tricky one. My answer is usually, basically a "no," especially newer stuff and the type that seems like pop country music or whatever. However, there are some older songs that if I hear it that won't be so bad, plus sometimes Johnny Cash or some Mike Ness/Social distortion songs that seem country-ish or country-influenced. I do know quite a few people that genuinely love country music, which may be at least in part due to the fact that I'm in more of a rural area. |
| I like Waylon Jennings's songs. Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson are nice too. don't know about the current country music, never heard it. |
| Country music and I don't get along very well, at least most of the time. Can't get myself to like it. |
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| It is a mix of factors involving personality, lifestyle, genetics and learned preferences "Poorer, less-educated people tended to like country, disco, easy listening, golden oldies, heavy metal and rap. Meanwhile, their wealthier and better-educated counterparts preferred genres such as classical, blues, jazz, opera, choral, pop, reggae, rock, world and musical theatre." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150603124545.htm "They found that empathic people tended to like mellow, unpretentious or contemporary tunes such as Norah Jones' "Come away with me" or Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah." This kind of music included country and folk songs, which is most likely where my recent obsession with country music factors in. " http://www.businessinsider.com/music-preference-relates-to-personality-2015-7 " Over the course of three years, Professor North asked more than 36,000 people in more than 60 countries to rate a wide range of musical styles in order of preference. Certain aspects of personality were also measured by questionnaire." " Country and western fans are hardworking and outgoing" http://psychcentral.com/lib/preferred-music-style-is-tied-to-personality/ " Nature's influence is lowest on appreciation of folk and country, where family upbringing appears to play a role - so a CD collection full of Hank Williams, Dolly Parton and Joni Mitchell can't necessarily be blamed on genetics: Nature's Influence Pop/classical/rap/hip-hop 53% Jazz/blues/soul 46% Rock/indie/heavy metal 40% Country/folk 24%" http://phys.org/news/2009-11-nature-nurture-reveals-musical-genes.html ""It seems that taste crystallizes around the music one is exposed to from around 16-24 years of age," Dr. Adrian North, who heads the School of Psychology at Curtain University in Australia and was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post in an email. "However, our actual listening continues to evolve thereafter in two ways. First, we do listen to new music, but with a bias towards that which sounds similar to that we listened to aged 16-24. So if you grew up listening to U2 you now listen to Coldplay, for instance. Second, the actual pieces we listen to tend to become more complex as we get older."" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/taste-in-music-age_n_7344322.html BONUS INFO " For out sample of 49 major U.S. cities, we found that the greater the percentage of radio time devoted to country music, the higher the incidence of white suicide, black suicide was unrelated to country music." http://comp.uark.edu/~ches/CountryMusic_Suicide.pdf FahtahSensei said: I like good traditional country, alt country and bluegrass. What i fucking hate is the pop country with pretty people from Florida or California or new Zealand doing horrible generic made up Nashville accents. That ruins country music's credibility. Those people need shooting. Yeah I feel about the same way. What is popular is so horrible its mind numbingly painful but some traditional country and alt country is good. |
| I like some country, country rock, and old country not the stuff on today. |
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| I'm sure there's something good about it, but I haven't found it yet. I'm talking about modern country, of course. |
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| I hate 99% of it and I live in Georgia in the United States, it seemed for the longest time almost all the radio stations were country and you would hear country music everywhere, it was annoying. In the past couple years I have have two retro stations that play classic rock music but most of the radio is still country. The only somewhat Country songs I kinda are by John Denver (one of his songs was bizarrely featured in the anime "Whispers of the Heart") though his songs were more Folk than country. I hate most country though from what I've heard on the radio it's mostly about beer and tractors and stuff. Country Pop is even worst because it's twice as annoying. |
MattKitsune96Jan 13, 2016 8:22 PM
| Country songs are great. At school I remember people playing country songs, but none of them are very good. They pretty much all sound the same. |
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traed said: That is interesting, I agree that most people stereotype classical music, and that folk traditional is not really doing so hot either. |
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| If I am correct, Country music is the only Western export that Africa in its long history has enjoyed. |
Anna_Cats said: so from what I've gathered, the only redeeming thing about country music is johnny cash. k Drive-By Truckers are better than Johnny Cash. I like Cash but I think he became Okay To Like because of the American albums and how gloomy they are. |
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nep-nep said: I've heard that there is at least one Western artist who is very popular in South Africa.If I am correct, Country music is the only Western export that Africa in its long history has enjoyed. |
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| I do like Cash,Williams Senior, Acuff, Rodgers and the old stuffs. |
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| Instrumental, traditional country and bluegrass are fine. You're getting country confused with all the shit that comes out these days. I don't me to be that guy, but country has really taken a dive the last 20 years. There is an overwhelming amount of crap in the genre though. |
| I like good country music. So there's that. |
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