It used to be good. Then, nationalism

🎶Got an old truck🎶
🎶Got some beer🎶
🎶Got an old dog🎶
🎶Got a weird sense of nationalism that won’t let me identify with anyone but people who look exactly like me🎶

- Goated KOTH moment. o7
  
  When I was a preacher I did a sermon around that episode. It's got a legitimately great message at the end about the perils of trying to make spirituality hip.

That strain of nationalism predates 9/11. Sometimes even out of those same outlaw country artists. Johnny Cash did Man in Black, but also Ragged Old Flag.
- It all started with Okie From Muskogee in response to the Summer of Love

What bro country sounds like to people who don't like bro country https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A
- Every time I make fun of country I’ll sing some made up lyrics like “got a girl in my truck and my truck in my beer” so I definitely laughed when I heard this parody because it’s basically the same thing.
- I knew what channel it'd be before clicking. "What RHCP sounds like to people who don't like RHCP" is an instant cult classic

There's still some outlaw type country out there. Just have to search more.
Ford truck month country is a blight tho

Toby Keith is the prime example of that. His early stuff was great. Should've Been a Cowboy is one of my all time favorite country songs. And then he got obnoxious and shitty, but man did he make a lot of money off racists.
- Is he the red solo cup song guy?
  
  Apparently. I've never heard it because I quit listening to him way before it came out, but google says yes.

Can we start a petition to make the good "country" music be called something else and all of the any other genre, but with a fake accent and nationalism just be country? The name is tainted by decades of shit music and shit people that only care about WHITE MERICA.
- Other way around for me.
  Theres country, and there sugar (read:twang) colored pop for those who dont want to admit they only listen to pop music.

Havin BBQ in the backyard,
Bombin Iraq in my heart,
Ate too many beans,
Now it’s time to fart.

Even good country had its nationalists. Marty Robbins made some certified bangers but he was also a nationalist who made a song in support of the Vietnam war.
- Yeah, that was a bummer. I first heard "Big Iron" via Fallout, but I listened to all of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and absolutely loved it.
  Then I heard his songs that were less Old West and more Cold War.

Country music listeners aren't exactly Pabst Blue Ribbon's key demo.
- And they don’t drink Bud light anymore ever since Budweiser treated a trans person as a person who has a right to exist.
- Yeah, it needed to be some bud heavies or whatever piss flavor water they are drinking. I think the creator picked Pabst because of the colors
  
  Am I … did you all forget the storied history of Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Country music in the 50s: I tripped and fell into a burning ring of fire and fell down down down
- Translation:
  Fell in love with a married woman and I'm going to burn in hell for my sins cause I'm a bad man

In fairness it was never good to begin with. But as we all know, no matter how bad things might be, they can always get worse.
- To be fair as a outsider ghost rider in the sky and ring of fire are both pretty fire and today old town road and cot nai Jo are probably the only actual songs that come to my mind as country music today so with that selection one sounds a lot cooler than the other
- "Country" isn't even a single genre: it covers a ton of different styles and has been around for over 100 years.
  There's probably a song you like that you don't even realize is "Country" because it sounds nothing like the garbage on the radio.

Country music is the lowest form of music, below music for toddlers.
- you havent heard country music then
  
  Downvoted by radio-listeners. Country is great, anyone who says "Live at Folsom Prison" isn't one of the best live albums of all time is, ironically, a toddler. Pop country is trash and has been trash for decades.

Nah it's country music , it's always bene garbage.
- Country is a complex and varied genre. For every garbage ass Kenny Chesney out there, there's a Sam Gleeves, Dori Freeman, Shovels and Rope, or Dead South doing something interesting.

- Nooo. This is a very narrow perspective on country. The original county artists were all on the margins and most of them fucking hated the jingoistic notions of America being great because being poor or black in America in the late 40s wasn't a good time