It feels like all my relatives listen to this shit.
White people love their damn country music.
A whole genre about how Hitler was the coolest thing ever, but with generous verses about how pollution, burning crosses in klan robes, swastikas and violence makes you a badass? That sums up the white psyche almost perfectly.
I’m guessing it’s not the good sort of country like Townes Van Zandt or Chris Stapleton.
idk, why do people constantly have to post about how much they hate country music?
because it takes longer to say that I hate a certain predominant type of country music that is overwhelmingly the most likely to be heard in any public space or around almost anyone who “loves country” who isn’t a music head or a comrade. Like that’s a long ass sentence
Nickelback (or the contemporary equivalent) is terrible and ubiquitous, but you don’t see people saying “fuck, I hate rock music” without qualification.
Bc it sucks and there are entire parts of the country where it’s shoved down your throat.
Never been to Tennessee but I guess that’s all they play there. The radio stations are all country, talk shows, or gospel. No hip hop, rock, R&B, jazz…nothing. Person I knew was telling me about it, but maybe things have changed in the last 15ish years.
I grew up in MO and where i lived we could get 4 different country stations and a pop station (that also played a bunch of country.) it wasn’t until my senior year of high school where you could get a rock station, which was actually cool bc they had a couple college kid DJs that played some cool stuff.
I wouldn’t have listened to any hip hop, R&B, jazz or punk without the internet. my family side eyes me if I happen to listen to any of those genres when I’m back home.
something something white cultural identification something
edit: I mean this seriously, I just can’t remember what the exact terminology is for “participating in this [country music] culture as a way of reaffirming whiteness and the status quo that comes with it”
I went to suburban (read rich) Connecticut once, and ya that shit was everywhere.
