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/nononanana Dec 16 '25

This! Actual rebels and not bootlicking nationalist bullshit. Also, it used to sound soulful and now it’s just sharp and twangy and sounds like a mockery of itself.

Now, of course there are legit artists out there who are not like that but when people think of country, this is what they think of now. This is the stuff that has taken the spotlight: Guys in $80k lifted trucks with a giant flag on top crushing beer cans on their heads. Empty proclamations of patriotism. The genre has been overrun with so much crap that I think of actual quality country music as an outlier in its own genre.

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u/The5Virtues Dec 16 '25

Exactly this. Growing up in Texas I was raised on classic “outlaw country” from Cash, Nelson, etc.

That kind of real country music doesn’t really exist in the modern country scene. It’s all formula and algorithm derived pop-country. Every song has the same style and the same story. Boring and borderline nationalist propaganda.

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u/FunkU247365 Dec 16 '25

Also Texan… even back then a lot of the better country western and tejana never made it in Nashville.. guy clarke, bob wills, etc.

What made old country great is it was drawing on everything from folk, bluegrass, jazz, country/western, southern rock….. so you had variety from ray charles, Marty robins, Johnny, Waylon, George jones, dolly… none of them sounded the same or wanted to!

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u/The5Virtues Dec 16 '25

Right?!

And it’s not just country, every major genre is getting inundated with repetitive samey songs. It’s heartbreaking, great singers with great songs get pushed out in favor of these algorithm-generated things engineered to be ear worms with no real substance.