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Rest in peace Sam

<— guy who never remembers to crosspost

The reason I think country gets a lot of hate is because of its mainstream music now and how intertwined it’s become with conservatism and shallow mainstream pop. Country was born from both black people (as every single thing ever was) and poor families that would come together as a community to use whatever they had to bring some enjoyment. It was a type of music about loving the land and people around you, most ideals you’d find in older country fell more in line with anti-government and anti-society values, more aligning with punk than it would today’s country.

The line is kind of blurry on where that began to shift but a lot of people will put it around 9/11 and the late 90s to 2000s, when country began combing more elements from pop and mainstream and changing its ideals from being proud of its people and instead dick sucking the government (i think it also wasn’t helped by the rise of urbanism and the internet starting to disconnect close in person communities) and taking on superficial ideas about getting girls and beer and trucks. This is the only type of country that is played on the radio nowadays, and most people (including me up until a few years ago) had this type as their only exposure to the genre, and hated it as a result.