Not entirely true.
The Dixie Chicks apologized for Bush and conservatives responded how they always do, by burning Dixie Chicks records and shirts.
Typical conservative cancel culture lol
Conservatives were more upstanding before Reagan.
Actually, I wonder how much of the problems we attribute to 9/11 can be traced back to the Reagan administration.
Reagan wasn’t the cause, just a symptom.
The evangelicals switching from politically neutral to Republican in the 70s is where the change started.
And old people getting stuck in social media echo chambers is what kicked it up a gear between 2008 and 2016.
This doesn't get said enough:
Fuck Reagan
Country music certainly sucked since Garth Brooks, at least. My dad used to listen to that crap on every road trip. It was hell.
Woodie Guthrie was more of a folk music guy than a country music guy, but the point still stands.
I'd also be extremely surprised if there was any, as much as a single (sentient) individual, overlap in the Trump and Guthrie fanbase.
I dunno. You'd think the same thing about Rage Against the Machine, yet here we are.
I feel like pre-9/11 country had heavy influence from folk music. However, post-9/11 country got a lot more influence from current events and current world political climate. A redneck hiphop scene essentially (as hiphop has a long standing history of being vocal on social issues)
Country has always been about the old and the new, (mostly the old, I do acknowledge) it's more the changing political climate, and the uprising of "snap country". Nor to mention, country is TECHNICALLY easy to make, so a lot of people and corps with money just go for it these days.
Small venue concerts and privately owned radio stations aren't really a thing anymore. Those were the tools of a machine that kills fascists, if you know what I mean.
Don't forget Johnny Cash. Until everyone is lifted from poverty, he'll wear black on his back, especially now he's buried in it.
This is so true. I liked 90s country but after it became hyper-nationalist post-9/11 I couldn't stand it anymore. It wasn't like there weren't patriotic sounding songs before then but some of it was pseudo-countryfried rock and heavily subversive. There was this "fuck The Man" vibe in many songs. Still lots of breakup songs, longing songs, and the twangy equivalent of bubblegum pop - it wasn't all anti-establishment.
Then it became all Toby Keith drunk asshole bootlicking bullshit and I noped tf right out.
There is still good country music out there, just don't listen to the shit on the radio. That's all trash.
The YouTube channel Gems on VHS has a lot of good music.
Yes, except nowadays they wouldn’t be caught dead holding a bud light
Got a friend that works at AmBev. Was telling me their profits went up because most the people outraged over the whole Bud Light thing just switched to other, more expensive AmBev brands. Yknow, because they're fucking idiots too angry to even check who owns the brand they drink.
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Inflexible, defensively aggressive knuckle-draggers.
"wHy DoN't ThE wOrLd LoVe Me? (also, I hate everyone who doesn't look and think exactly like me)"Embrace, extend, extinguish. I feel like it's not a coincidence.
No shoes,
No shirt,
No Jews,
Ya didn't hear that,
"for the farmers" it says. Like barley falls from outer space
