What the fuck is wrong with modern country music? It used to be about rebellion, outlaws, drinking. Now it's some yokel wishing he could get with country girls, praying is le good, America and bootlicking.
>>124463941rebellion and outlaw living makes the prison industry very mad
>>124463941https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZlNkw5ZzII found this gem recently. It does seem like it's been a lot of hellraisers from the start...then finding God...then falling off the wagon. Rinse, repeat.
The last time I turned on country radio it was a hip hop song about fucking in the bed of a pickup truck.
>>124463941>praying is le goodprobably the oldest continuous theme in country music.
>>124464102Also hellraisers who simultaneously loved God. Just like Johnny in OP's pic.Or at least, one of the brothers was.
>>124464121I think one raised hell while they both loved God. You couldn't escape loving God in those days.
>>124464135imagine that
>>124463941Country ended in 1997 with Fred Eaglesmith
>>124464088That's about as much as country "fans" interact with the genre anyway. No wonder they think the whole scene is crap.
>>124463941it was always about country girlshttps://youtube.com/watch?v=6JG-4s4Z5Xw
>>124464502I even like when the country girl sings herself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQw6I5VCac
>Now it's some yokel wishing he could get with country girls, praying is le good, America and bootlicking.You just described the most famous country musician you retarded poser lmaooo
>>124464502That's not true. Girls used to be 30% of country. It's now 100% girls plus 60% proving you're a wigger.
>>124464898You're an idiot. Hank did not bootlegging and he did no patriotism. He was just sad all the time.
>>124465265>bootlegging*bootlicking. I would not be surprised if he did bootlegging.
>>124465265>Hank did not bootlegging and he did no patriotismHe praised the Lord in half of his songs, and loving Christ is the most patriotic American thing ever. So you're wrong, you're gay, and you're brown.
they got cameras everywhere...can't be an outlaw anymore. anybody that says they are is larping. and no one likes listening to larps
>>124465876>no one likes listening to larpsLike "gansta" rappers?
>>124465275How did you guys actually meme yourselves that spirituality has anything to do with bootlicking? And it certainly doesn't apply to Christianity. Whether you believe it or not, it outright teaches that God became a man and got down to your level.Oh well.
>>124465789Not before 9/11 it wasn't.
>>124465265>he hasn't heard "no no joe" (stalin)
>>124466593by Hank Williams? Get out of here kiddo.
>>124463941>It used to be about rebellion, outlaws, drinking.I don't think you know as much about the genre as you think you do.
>>124463941Everyone I know who says this and posts this picture is a reclusive, embarrassing excuse for a man. Just my experience.
>>124463941>On May 11, 1965, he was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. (He used this incident as the basis for the song "Starkville City Jail". He discussed this on his live At San Quentin album.)The outlaw rebel Johnny Cash
thank goodness nobody's brought up "outlaw country" -- that shit's just trust-fund babies larping as revolutionariesthere might be hope in folk music still, but country, in all its forms, is nothing more than a honkytonk tragedy, meant to distract from people saying things that are real
>>124463941>It used to be about rebellion, outlaws, drinking.No it wasn't. Back in the day people were saying that "outlaw country" isn't real country.
Pretty much every single old musician would not be able to exist in the modern era, they'd have been cancelled a million times over by now. On top of that, the country that produced these people no longer exists.>>124463941>some yokel wishing he could get with country girls, praying is le good, America and bootlicking.It was always about that toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIxBmyRQlwQ
>>124468364It isn't.
>>124463941Old school outlaw country was always way out of the mainstreamLouisiana Hayride and the Grand Ole Opry were the starmakers, labels controlled everything, the outlaw guys were always fringe underground acts that eventually blew up because they had a run with great talent
>>124472208I'm not very informed on this but didn't outlaw country just mean "produced outside of Nashville"? I noticed many acts listed as outlaw country were from Texas or associated with Texas so why wasn't it just called Texas country?
White people are considerably more lame nowadays
>>124472617Sort of, but it also cultivated a specific image of country bad boys and had themes glorifying life on the peripheral, living life like a cowboy. This contrasted a lot from the mainstream "rhinestone" country coming from big Nashville record companies. Outlaw wasn't only coming from Texas but it fits the image and Austin was a big scene.
>>124472617The (very) basic deal here is this:The very earliest roots of country music is basically early blues musicIt was labeled blues if played by blacks, if played by whites it was labeled "honky-tonk", a name invented by blacks to describe white country bands that had the same sound as themEventually blues morphed into R&B, before getting revived by white English bands and turning into rockCountry got smoothed out and became super overproduced, rhinestone, establishment and very smooth and harmlessA group of guys who had access to old honky tonk records decided to emulate that instead of the slick Nashville sound in the 60's and 70'sThey were outsiders in the sense that they were literally working outside the Nashville studio system, but they also cultivated a very raw, authentic sound and their lyrical content was fairly counterculture with lots of drugs and sex references, songs about hating the government, poverty, fractured relationships, open racism in some cases
>>124464047this is pure folk
>>124464898vicario?
