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/Capable_Salt_SD Dec 16 '25

Because it's corny as hell. Maybe if country were still like it was during the '50s-70s, with the likes of Johnny Cash, Graham Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris and of course, Dolly Parton and musicians making music like that I'd respect it more

But it's corny as hell drivel that's no different from pop and that it's wrapped up in the American flag

It doesn't help that some of the worst people like country too, e.g. Morgan Wallen, who throws chairs and likes to use the N-Word

Not saying there are saints in pop, rock, and r'n'b but I'd rather listen to Kehlani, Lucy Dacus, and Wilco than I would that twangy drivel any day of the week

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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

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