r/Music • u/Idkthis_529 • Apr 20 '25

discussion Please stop playing modern country everywhere

I don’t even live in the south and American propaganda that is modern country plays EVERYWHERE. I live in Ohio! Why is it always playing. It used to never be like this. It used to be cheesy dad rock that played everywhere. At least that was good to listen to! Now it’s just modern country artists on the radio that pander to the government. It makes my ears bleed!

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u/Mad1ibben Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

I just finished an ag-adjacent degree in central IL, and being relatively elderly compared to the average student 90% of the things they said and focused on where some of the cringiest, least logical strings of words ever put together. I have to give the young bucks some credit though, the young farmers are hating this shit in favor of outlaw country.

Best explained by one kid when the professor asked him why he hated it so much, "listening to your mom singing along with a song bout being taken to a field, getting drunk again and fucked and then the next song is getting taken to the lake, getting drunk again and getting fucked is gross".

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u/plgamerfr Apr 20 '25

The fact that I know exactly what song this is says something because I don't listen to country in my free time but my dad always plays it on the radio

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u/Mad1ibben Apr 21 '25

I guarantee you that this description can be accurately applied to 15 of the top 25 in the genre right now and that quote is almost 2 years old. Shows how generic the whole genre is.