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It’s not I have a problem with songs that focus on the culture of country music, it’s that so much of pop country has a either direct or implied message that says the white rural or antebellum experience is the “real” one, and inherently better than others that I find off putting. Especially since a lot of the imagery they glorify of farms and trucks is becoming less and less reflective of what life is like in even those areas.
And often it was never like that. It's not really different than Baudrillard's argument that Disney World is a simulacra. That main street America never existed outside of the cultural imagination that felt it necessary to create it.
That's one of worst offenses of modern country. The reliance on nostalgia and this old world where things were better. I don't have to explain how to is just a smaller trend that manifests itself in right wing populism politically. But even tho it's mostly left unsaid it's pretty clear where the problem is. People used to be moral and you could walk down the street without fear. And your neighbors were friendly. Everything was clean and people worked hard and they went to church. On and on. Liberal democracy destroyed all this. It was the libs, folks. It's certainly not a good thing that this notion is reinforced a thousands times a day on the radio.
And even if you don’t buy into any of that, every song being about trucks and farms and beer and listening to George Jones just gets fucking boring and repetitive. Every hit song has to work in the cliche cultural signifiers and it’s exhausting.
I really hate this. I've been forced to listen to country radio a lot in my life and this has always gotten on my nerves. I'm in the Bible Belt but my town is mostly industrial based... it's in the mountains and not the best farm land in the region, etc. There are farms but maybe 5% of the population makes their living working a farm. Plus it was Native land up until the Trail of Tears. The last territory of the Cherokee. Anyway, it was never really "suburban" like you'd see outside a major city but most of the people around here are not farmers and didn't grow up on a fucking farm. But the music they mainly listen to is filled with a world they relate to that's completely alien to their lives. It's just so bizarre.
But it should be said that plenty of other genres have similar problems. It's just not always as widespread and obvious as it is in country music from the 90s onward.
Most of the country people toss up here as good either avoids the “us vs them” trap or talks about identity in either an inclusive or truly personal way. In Dolly Parton’s “Why’d You Come in Here,” for example, the fact that the love interest is wearing boots and tight jeans is just the backdrop to the larger point of the song. It’s framed from her own country perspective but the larger theme is relatable. Compare that to a Jason Aldean song like “Dirt Road Anthem” or “She’s Country.” Those songs are just long strings of cliche stitched together.
This is my hometown. This is where I had my first beer. Then my old man and me got in a fight. Then I fogged the windows up in my old truck with the girl that got away. I like to sit at the old bar and retail these stories while my buddies and I listen to Springsteen.
Even bad country is still fun when you're on a boat
I don't know that there's ever a good time for "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)." That post-9/11 period of hyper-jingoism in country was a pretty bleak era.
My hottest take here is that if you’re collecting vinyl it’s really fun to collect old country LPs.
During post-9/11 Bush hell, my cousin and I made a bunch of patriotic t-shirts and sold them at the flea market. I don’t fucking know why. We thought it would be funny.
The main thing we bought with the profits was a stack of vinyl Conway Twitty albums and the Rocky 4 soundtrack.
Post by SupeЯfuЯЯyanimal on Jul 29, 2022 9:13:14 GMT -5
And if you are in these threads and the main argument you have against country is it’s for inbreds and cousin fuckers… I don’t want to see you in the politics thread talking left wing shit.
I’ll call you out for being a classist shitlib of the worst sort.
But I agree that modern popular country is mostly cookie cutter dogshit.
I think it could be time to consider country tbh. Dolly & Johnny can only do so much to counteract the massive pile of shit that is >98% of country music, especially these days.
I haven't voted yet. I'm waiting this round, but I'm 100% down to vote country.
My stepfather, Ike, loved country. He would blast Dwight Yoakam's, It Won't Hurt at top volume when I was a kid. I'd rather be beaten than listen to that fucking song ever again.
There's country I like, but there's more country I don't like.
Dwight fucking rules. Thanks for reminding people of him. One of the better artist to survive the 90s shift to pop country.
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Watch Brothers. Eggers short film around the time of The VVitch. A film that doesn't rely on incredibly close attention to detail.
I'm not really a big fan of either, tbh. Eggers makes incredibly beautiful films that don't really have a good story behind them and Peele knows how to make a really fun film that don't really qualify as a genre. I think Get Out is more of a thriller than horror personally. I'd probably pick Peele between the two and Ari Aster above all of them. His next film is going to further cement his already amazing career.
. Get Out is without debate a horror film. Both psychological and body horror.
For non-Georgians wtf are the Georgia Guidestones?
It’s a granite slab structure where I sacrifice children.
It’s really not even well known to most Georgians… in my experience being from here. It’s not a household name like Stone Mountain or something. Just some art instillation that conspiracy idiots and certain looney religious types are obsessed with.
by that metric Obama is probably a bigger failure than Biden.
I honestly don’t think many people expected much from Biden. He just wasn’t Trump. If you knew his record as a senator you knew he sucked.
I’m not actually arguing Obama was the worst but I think it’s fair to say many more people had their hopes up for something different with him.
Obama at least got the ACA done. What’s Bidens crowning achievement?
Nothing. Which is what most of us expected. He’s terrible.
I’m just going off your metric. It’s really a testament to Obama’s political skills that so many folks saw what they wanted in him. So many thought he was an actual progressive democrat with a more populist lean. When he ended up being a fairly moderate statesman.
I guess you could argue he’s even worse than we thought because we at least assumed his staff and cabinet would pick up the pieces to some extent.