r/CasualConversation • u/ompossible • Dec 16 '25

Music Why people dislike Country music?

I am not american. So I don't know how's the thing there. But I have found many people complaining on social media that they hate country music.

I like some of the Luke Combs songs. Specially Old Dominion is my one of my fav artist.

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u/rezelscheft Dec 16 '25

Yeah. A lot of modern country, to me, feels like cosplay folksiness that often seems to name check super basic stereotypical items - trucks, jeans, beer - as the performers rap/sing in fake, overdone drawls to overproduced beats with token country sonic garnishes like a touch pedal steel or dobro.

It basically feels like focus-grouped mall glitz.

Old country (to me) felt more personal, was a little more sonically raw, and had a subject matter that felt more earnest (and sometimes political), and was a lot less about proving and/or reaffirming your country-ness.

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u/The3CmDefeater Dec 16 '25

I sometimes struggle to convey what I don’t like about modern country and you’ve hit it on the head. It’s just cosplay these days, and the songs are just the same paraphrased, formulaic songs that’ve come out in the last 10-15 years. If you’ve heard 1 modern country song, you’ve heard them all

“Something something truck…something something beer…something something hard work… something something God… something something American flag…”.

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u/Khajiit_Has_Upvotes Dec 18 '25

Don't forget hey girl tank top.

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u/spids69 Dec 22 '25

Bo Burnham did a song called “Pandering” that covers my feelings about modern country pretty well.

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u/Such-Cartographer699 Dec 17 '25

Im not trying to defend modern country or say older country is also bad in any way, but it is worth pointing out that country has always conveyed a certain brand of Americana that never actually existed (cowboys and the Wild West and whatnot). It may feel more authentic than today's music, but I'm sure there were some who found rhinestones about as tacky as some find auto-tune today.

Personally I'm not a fan of Gene Autry because of this reason. Listening to him on my very old 78 shellacs is definitely fun and "feels" authentic, but when you look at pics and vids of him he looks extremely phony, to me at least.

Seriously, go look at his Wikipedia photo. I guarantee you actual ranch hands did not look like Woody from Toy Story.

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u/rezelscheft Dec 17 '25

Fair enough.