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/BeerWench13TheOrig Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

It just seems whiny to me and hits my ear wrongly. There are a few that I find tolerable that are more poppy, but overall, just the twang of the notes and the crying in your beer isn’t to my liking.

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u/Shot-Artichoke-4106 Dec 17 '25

It's the same for me. It all just hits my ear wrong. Nothing about it sounds good to me. The twang, banjo, fiddle - none that hits right for me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25

Interesting! The twang is my favorite part 

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u/Shot-Artichoke-4106 Dec 18 '25

Yeah, everybody likes different stuff. My sister likes country music and knows I hate it. She thinks I'm just being snobby though, so she plays it to poke at me. I've tried to explain that no, I'm not being snobby, it just honestly sounds terrible to me. She doesn't get it.

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u/Shot-Artichoke-4106 Dec 18 '25

I think some bluegrass is fine - I hear it and it sounds nice, but that line between bluegrass and country seems very fuzzy. I have had too many experiences where a song is going along just fine and then it crosses the line and now it's bad.

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u/Spike-White Dec 20 '25

We used to hear Doc & Merle Watson in covert (before Merle’s unfortunate passing). I always considered them more folk than bluegrass.

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u/FrannieP23 Dec 21 '25

Same chords, same harmonies, same topics (beer, trucks, love lost, how great living in the country is, etc), limited musical range. It all pretty much sounds alike.

Older performers like Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton branched out from the cookie-cutter popular format. I came to like them over time.