why do people hate country music?

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  • Lrdoflamancha
    Lrdoflamancha Posts: 1,280 Member
    Country music drives me into a rage.

    Rap / Hip Hop drives me in into a rage. Country is good but pre Garth Brooks country.
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
    Im in Nashville. 'nuff said :sick:
  • jennpaulson
    jennpaulson Posts: 850 Member
    I LOVE country music!! All of it! I also listen to Rock, Southern Rock, Classic Rock, 90's Alternative, 70's & 80's Pop and even a tiny bit of rap. I can't wait to buy my tickets to Sunday in the Country this week, to see Gary Allen, Brantley Gilbert, Florida Georgia Line and Randy Houser!!
  • tatd_820
    tatd_820 Posts: 573 Member
    I like Miranda Lambert's "Momma's Broken Heart"


    Several good lines.

    "Run and hide your crazy and start acting like a lady"

    I know every word to that song! And so do my 7 and 4 year old. HA! Love that song =)
  • tatd_820
    tatd_820 Posts: 573 Member
    Country music LOVER here. No shame =) I especially like the old 80's country or older.
  • lostdogg
    lostdogg Posts: 450 Member
    I don't "hate" country music. I just don't like a good bit of it. And don't listen to very much at all. Most of what I hear as country todaydoesn't interest me in the bit. Some of the older country music that I heard growing up is a bit more tolerable, but still don't listen to it much.

    Usually we listen to what we relate to or what comforts us. For each person that's different.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    "why do people hate country music?"

    Because when you play it backwards, you get the girl, the dog and the truck back.
  • enchanted_daydream
    enchanted_daydream Posts: 258 Member
    I love country music! I didn't really like it in high school (except Josh Turner. My goodness I loved that deep voice) but things changed when I actually listened to it! I like a wide range of music but I found that I was getting annoyed with the radio filled with Lady Gaga and other songs that annoyed me and were played all the time so I switched to the country station and just loved the deeper songs that were fun to listen to. Now I listen all the time :)

    Everyone has there own taste. I think that there are songs/artists within every genre that I like and I hate it all depends on what speaks to me! Overall though music is awesome :)
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    I didn't grow up with country music. I learned to love it through my Irish dancing background, which got me to listen to bluegrass, which got me to listen to more mainstream country music, and from living next to a church that had a gospel choir.
  • babycakes1970
    babycakes1970 Posts: 111 Member
    In our house we are ALL about classic eighties rock! My hubby does NOT like modern country music but he does like old Hee-Haw style of country music. My daughter who is severely autistic does not like any music with a twangy sound like a banjo. I like some country music but like my girls I listen to eighties bands.
  • rikwaynik
    rikwaynik Posts: 724 Member
    I like some of every genre except maybe metal. Even then, I respect it. I have more country in my collection than any other genre. I don't care as much for the latest artists though and for some reason I've never taken to Garth Brooks. Is that weird? :) My favorites are: Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, John Anderson, John Conlee, Patty Loveless and Lee Ann Womack. By the way, you pretty much have to go country if you want to find anything patriotic.
  • jjscholar
    jjscholar Posts: 413 Member
    There are two reasons... One is that country music is perceived as all sounding the same... Another reason is that country music fans are perceived as racist...

    Actually, like all musical types there are great songs, average, and poor songs... I remembered what the late Ray Charles said about what makes country music great... It is the stories that country music tells is what makes it great...

    I think that people are becoming too polarized about everything... But, I do not feel that a solution will come... People tend to be their own source of evil... That is people in this day and age are to quick to pass judgment upon others... Perhaps I am guilty of that as well...

    I hope that what I said made some sense...

    I am not a super fan of country music... But, I am willing to acknowledge that there are some great country music songs...
  • Lisa1971
    Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
    I used to hate it but now I really like it. I just saw Kenny Chesney in concert last Saturday and had a GREAT time! Damn, those country folk get pretty crazy!:laugh: :drinker:
  • classycouture
    classycouture Posts: 888 Member
    It's way too twangy and it sounds like one big, whiny complaint.
  • atb0821
    atb0821 Posts: 458 Member
    Because it makes me want to shove knives into my ears to make it stop.

    As someone who grew up in the South, it's a complete embarrassment to me.
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Probably for the same reason I hate (c)rap... that psuedo R&B that has turned into (c)rap and electronica/techno (all of which I don't consider actual music).


    *While listening to our Country Top 40 Station*
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Same reason people hate rock, or hate rap, or hate pop, or hate classical,etc. Because it's just not their taste.

    Yup!
  • SkinnyBubbaGaar
    SkinnyBubbaGaar Posts: 389 Member
    "I was drunk, the day my Mom got out of prison..."
  • MMulder68
    MMulder68 Posts: 139 Member
    I hate most Southern accents and many country singers have Southern accents when they sing.


    This comment is just unkind. Should I say that I hate Yankee accents? New Jersey accents? Geesh! I speak with correct grammar but I have a strong southern accent. Why? Because I was raised in Alabama. Anyway....just thought this was off subject.

    Not a HUGE country fan but like some of the rock country. However, I do understand as a musician how some people do not like country. It breaks every grammatical rule, makes you depressed from the sad content and is just not good music. BUT, man can you dance to it. Truck yeah!!! (Tim McGraw for all y'all non country fans!) Fun stuff!
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    Closed minded not all country music is the same. How can you deny the classics like Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson? There is some that doesnt sound very good. Like I can't take the "God bless 'merica" songs that were such a hit post 9-11, but there are others that I love.
  • Sarahonly
    Sarahonly Posts: 36 Member
    because honkey tonk badonk a donk. :P
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    No black artist.
    Some of the most famous black country singers include Darius Rucker, Cowboy Troy, Charley Pride, Big Al Downing, and Cleve Francis. The first black country singer was DeFord Bailey, making a name for himself in 1928

    I dont know if you want to lump them under country, but Blues music, and to some extent influenced country music, is lead by African American performers.
  • stetienne
    stetienne Posts: 560 Member
    I hate the jingoistic, lazy lyrics that are all just different versions of the same thing. How many ways can you say "I'm Country"...apparently an infinite amount, and it will be gobbled up.
  • stetienne
    stetienne Posts: 560 Member
    "I was drunk, the day my mom got out of prison..."
    Best country song ever. David Allen Coe.
  • Meg_Shirley_86
    Meg_Shirley_86 Posts: 275 Member
    I don't hate it, and there are plenty of artists from 10+years back that I love, but now I feel like a lot of it sounds the same, and that it has become so much like pop, that I'm not always sure what the difference is. I also feel like the lyrics are the same in damn near every song. My family are all big into country, it's just not my flavor. If you play me some Loretta Lynn or Patsy Cline though, I'll croon away until the neighbors complain about the noise!
  • _Pseudonymous_
    _Pseudonymous_ Posts: 1,671 Member
    I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. Never have, probably never will. I like bluegrass and folk music but country is just... I don't know... too whiney sometimes. A lot of times it seems like it's just about drinking, guns, and heartache.

    As much as I do love songs about heart ache the country versions just don't do it for me.

    All in all it just comes down to the fact that I don't enjoy the way it sounds. What sucks even more is that I live in Fort Worth, Texas which is home of Billy Bob's and is one of the biggest supporters of country. There is even a huge country festival near here every year. Something called Larry Joe Taylor I think? Anyway, it's torture to live in Texas and hate country music...
  • terlyn20
    terlyn20 Posts: 142 Member
    I only hate Taylor Swift, and only her music.


    This!! Otherwise I LOVE country!

    this - this. i cant stand that twerp, but i love real country music.
  • darcyrose_texas
    darcyrose_texas Posts: 38
    well I love it! I rarely listen to anything but country music... and unless it's a super catchy song I can't name anyone else on the top 40. I listen to both the oldies and the new country music, and I love them both.


    But I also enjoy going to the honky tonk and two-steppin on the weekends.... :)
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    It is a mixed bag, I like some country music, but some just annoys me. I feel the same way about rap, top 40, rock and indie. only music I dislike a lot is Jazz, not sure why it just bugs me.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Honestly, it depends on the artist. But I hate most of the modern country. Give me country classics anytime though.

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