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My tractor broke down and my dog stole my truck

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[–] MONKEYHOG@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It used to be, now it's just bragging about how big your truck is, or how much beer you drink, or how good your wife's ass looks in jeans.

[–] Ser_Salty@feddit.de 57 points 1 year ago

As Steve Earle said, it's hip-hop for guys that are afraid of black people

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah now it's rural 1990s mainstream gangsta brag rap

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A dirt road

A cold beer

A big truck

A girl I want to take to church

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good girl

In a straw hat

With her arms out in a corn field

... That is a scarecrow

Thought that was a human woman, sorry

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Darkness falls.

Lightning strikes.

Scarecrow becomes animated.

Chases you down and devours your bones.

[–] Stinkypete@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is a good song

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Modern country music is just dude's from L.A. dunkin' on country folk, parodying their dirt road/cold beer way of life, and these fucking inbreds eat it up like it's the anthem of their soul.

Worse yet, the ones who aren't just writing what hicks want to hear are trying to speak real sexy over a snap track. Whenever I hear "Country girls, shake it for me, girl..", I can't not think of obese 50-year-old bar flies chain smoking and dancing in denim. You're not getting 10s shaking their bodies to that shit.

Anyone over a 6 left Yolksmobile County years ago.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly being a southerner is infuriating because the media has decided minstrel shows are fine if they're about Southerners....

Can I enjoy my grits on my sawdust covered floor in peace without Larry The Cable Guy making everything I stand for seem intellectually impaired?

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

When it's a country song singing about some girl I think of some inbred conservative talking to an obese diet coke drinking land whale

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There’s 10s. You’d be surprised.

[–] PorkTaco@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New "country" music is hip hop for white people that are afraid of black people.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, I remember when they all dyed their hair blond and put on a wife beater and named their teen mom babies Haley.

Now they all have big belt buckles and cowboy hats and say, “Uuupchyerrrrrch!” “Ayuhpcherch??” “Urrrrpchuuuurch!” “Heyuhl yeah! Upchurch!”

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Your comment smells like Mich Lites

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was going through some old casette tapes my parents had. One country group from the 80s-90s had a song that basically said they'd be the last contry band left when the rest turn into pop. I have to track it down again!

New country pop country sucks but I can listen to some Tyler Childers, First Aid Kit or Johnny Cash any day. Like most music the good stuff is out there if you look past the overplayed corporate radio surface

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 35 points 1 year ago

You have insulted emo and I wont stand for it…

If you’d like to apologize I’ll be brooding over in the corner writing a song about this.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

I had to shoot my wife because she was sleeping with my truck.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago
[–] TheWorstMailman@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Modern country music is just emo music while wearing wranglers instead of skinny jeans

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

You are 100% correct and I'm fine with it.

[–] TheAlbacor@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] raptir@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It still is if you listen to alt country.

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We got folk punk still

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure emo is farm emo

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My dad is a sad pop

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always said country music is blues for white people

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Ugh, no. The blues are awesome. Blues music does not celebrate ignorance, nor is it whiny.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Demodorkon@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah. It should say “emo music is just country music in the city”

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Or better yet, "emo is just country music for the suburbs"

Or "emo is city country" for maximal confusion out of context.

[–] Wilshire@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

There's a documentary about this called Trolls 2.

I mean old country sure I suppose. New country at least of what I have heard no.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

everything is emo if you read the lyrics

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

THIS IS MY COMEBACK SONG! IT'S ONLY MEANT TO FUCKING PROVE YOU WRONG! I AM SO FAR FROM BEING FAMOUS! I KNOW YOU'RE NOT THE SAME AS ME AND THAT'S THE WAY I WANT IT TO BE!

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yo, I have to strongly disagree. As a backyard farmer and someone who loves emo music, country music does NOT represent me lol. I grew up on large farms, so I know what the true for realsy farmer life is also like. I just do backyard stuff because $$$$

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't bluegrass a subgenre from country?

[–] raptir@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Related genres but I wouldn't say it's a subgenre. They both evolved from "string music" but took it in very different directions.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Old time country. Country itself is just pop on acoustic guitar and funny accents. Sometimes banjos.

[–] WiildFiire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Emo music isn't racist, also

See: Jason Aldean

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pop is just emo for basic removed.

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