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Newsflash: unironically listening to modern country like Jason Aldean or any other arena country act, makes you an idiot. It's a bad song, with bad lyrics, with bad music, sung by a millionaire larping as working class. Everything about Country is a lie.
That was a scarecrow.
🎶I write songs for the people who do🎶 🎶Jobs in the towns that I’d never move to🎶
I put my hands on your body... it feels like hay, IT'S THE FUCKING SCARECROW AGAIN!
I've been trying to comb through (haha) why I'm so annoyed with the fact that Luke Combs just released a cover of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car. At first blush I just thought "God damn, what an appropriating prick." I've always thought of it as kind of a feminist song, and since Tracy is Black, as an intersectional song. And here is some rich white country star singing it in a less good way and making mountains more money than she ever made on it.
Intellectually, I know that there are instances where men are heavily burdened by becoming default caregivers of ailing parents, but it falls on women much more often.
I realized it is a bit sexist of me that it rubs me the wrong way for a man to complain about financially supporting his female partner who refuses to work, and it feels like an empowering feminist notion when a woman has had enough of the same and moves out on her own because of it. I guess that's a pretty backwards thinking on my part.
But also, when he sings, he sounds like he's constipated and trying to poop.
It bothers me that the original is much better and his just sounds lifeless and generic af. Like the videos of taking pitch correction to a bunch of classics and making them dull and ruined.
Modern Pop country can go to hell. Want to listen to country, go look up Bluegrass or Folk Punk.
Or, you know, discover the roots of it all and actually come to recognize that modern music was largely ripped off non-white artists. 🤷🏼♂️
Depends on what you listen to. You'd be hard pressed to claim something like power metal, or folk metal to go further, has much of any roots in Black rock, beyond a long trail of this guy did a thing, which lead to another thing, and several artistic choices later you get the very basic foundation of metal itself.
A lot of those genres base their inspiration in folk music of Nordic and Euro origin, and the fantasy elements being just as local or more Tolkien in nature.
Saying modern music all distills down to ripping off black guitarists of the early 1900s is, at this point, an assinine discussion to hold. There is so much nuance, creativity, and departure from the norm in all the decades to follow.
Agreed. You can go to the artists in the early 1900s and find connections. Even the 1950s and they admitted the took inspiration from non white artists. But today with the internet and everything being accessible I just don't see it.
Thank the gods for the internet when it comes to music. Mongolian throat singing got more attention then it would of, especially now with the Hu reviving interest after Tengger Cavalry brought it around in the 2000s. So much obscure goodness getting some main stream attention.
Not really.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE bluegrass.
Seems I need to broaden my folk punk knowledge, all of the stuff I've listened to is more ska punk-adjacent, like Syke! Life Is Awesome by BTMI.
What about Swedish horror country?
I love this band so much!
I wouldn't go far enough to say that for the reason that enjoying the instrumentals (unsure if the correct word, but I mean the melody from non-vocal sounds) is a personal taste. Most people don't care for my taste which is mostly electronica genres not much lyrics usually, but to each their own.
Personally country music sounds like nails on a chalkboard but I wouldn't ever say enjoying a certain sound makes someone an idiot. I have read about this story and as a whole it does sound like someone scoring points on an ignorant (and false) view that I have no interest in checking out, for more reasons than just being country and annoying to personally listen to.