So, whenever I talk to anyone about what kind of music they listen to, there's one thing that's always the same.
"I hate country"
And it sort of clicked with me yesterday that I dont really understand why. If you look at all the other genres out there, why is country the one that's so unanimously hated? It's mostly just guitar and simple melodies - just like a whole of other genres (pop, pop rock, punk rock, pop punk, etc...)
You think less people would hate it and hate things like, oh I dont know, death metal.
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haha! that is true about death metal
i understand death metal, but i can only listen to it for short periods of time.
and i've been wondering the same thing.. i quite like some country. some of it is a bit twangy, but there are a few gems.
it must be a society thing - it isn't cool to like country because hicks make the music and they are alll stupid and smell bad.
:|
i dont think i dislike it because of society... quite a few of my high school friends loved it, and i still held strong to my hate. but yes, there are a few songs that are acceptable.
but to be fair, i also hate death metal.
i think people just assume that most of us hate death metal
its pretty much a law of nature.
modern country is the exploitation of an alternative culture -- city folk stupid enough to think they're "country" enough to give beer to their non-existent horses, or that everybody's "gone country". it's simple, produced, marketed music with a cowboy hat.
though some death metal fits some of those descriptors (simple, marketed, whatever), it's easy to find good, expressive, complex death metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWNMMuQzm-A
(if anything, 5:25 - end)
...yeah.
i still hate it.
ok, no. i dont hate the instruments.
i just hate the VOICES of death metal.
I hate the instruments.
I think country music is mostly associated with beer swilling, gay/other race-hating tacky-dressing Republican Alabamans with extensive cowboy hat collections, lewd accents and nagging voices (that bleed into the music).
People often forget that Johnny Cash was a country singer.
I honestly think death metal is for 8th graders who are too young to get trashed/stoned and mix post-pubescent confusion with random unfounded rage against society/love/the opposite sex/parents/the government/etc.
This translates into aggressive guitars and screaming.
No offense, Dave.
Also, that Youtube link: notice how none of the lyrics are grounded in REALITY. It's like some terribly vague hallucination that could be interpreted a thousand different ways by any simple teenager looking for some so-called deeper meaning to life.
That's my rant.
Oh. And I personally don't mind country music... not a fan of the twang, but I'm not opposed to bopping out to some Carrie Underwood. Shit's catchy.
I love how I just drove a stake through the heart of death metal and came right back with "boppin' out to Carrie Underwood".
Whatever. Think what you will.
well, now that we've all let some of that rage out, let me just add that I only listed death metal as an example of a lesser known genre that you would suppose the general public to mostly "hate". i didn't mean that i hated it, though clearly some of you guys really do...
easy, jess. you're calling all death metal emo in everything but the name. it's not a pity party, it's music. music is designed to be expressive.
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