Why is country music so much dumber than it used to be? Here's an example of a 'storyteller' country song from the 70s. Compare to recent country hits:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUxUM51X-0
>>130282637Modern country is a series of consumer advertisements:>Muh F250>Muh beer>Muh cowboy boots>Muh goyslop 'redneck' consumer goodsThe entire 'redneck' identity is largely a consumer label developed by marketers in the 80s and 90s. And yet suckers still fall for it.
>>130282637Anon if you peel back to even just under mainstream in the country world you get some top tier shitNashville pushes out pop garbage cause that's what they've always done
almost all music is dumber than it used to be
>>130282637A culture that wasn't predicated on short attention span that caters to quick reward brain feedback.There was something similar going on in medieval times. If you read scholastic arguments, it's the ultimate autism challenge. They used very complicated language, made super-complex arguments. Our language and the way we argue and reason have vastly simplified compared to medieval times.
>>130282672Garth Brooks started it. Not that he was anywhere near as dumb as post-9/11 country but his albums were totally focus-grouped product designed for maximum appeal and ticking off every box on a list.>love man ballad>uptempo party song>horses>hanging out with brosetc.
>>130282738>A culture that wasn't predicated on short attention span that caters to quick reward brain feedbackyou're 70 years too late because they already did that in the 50s. short meme novelty songs for dumb people. Mitch Miller was like the emperor of this kind of music.
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>>130282767Ween isn't modernLa Cucaracha is 20 years old
>>130282637controlled opposition
I work at a diner and we’re only allowed to listen to country in the kitchen. it’s so fucking awful it makes me homicidal. I don’t know how people fall for that shit. Every song is either about cheating or being cheated on, and MUH MURICAN PRIDE. I’d rather work in silence than have to hear “STRAWBERRY WINE” for the 100th fucking time that day
>>130282808Is it a radio station or a playlist?You could suggest some non shit country
>>130282834It’s a radio. the owner gets pissy about turning it off
>>130282808>Every song is either about cheating or being cheated onCountry always did that even in the good ol' days of Henk and the Possum and whatnot.
>>130282637>Why is country music so much dumber than it used to be?clear channel
The US, and specifically the parts of the US both geographically and culturally that have been the traditional market for country music, has been on a strong anti-intellectual trajectory for the last couple of generations. By intellectual I don’t mean "elitist college professor" or anything pejorative, just that culture has shifted to a far less thoughtful and less independently-minded norm. Work, consume, conform, have the opinions you’re told to and DON'T THINK.
