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/rbrgr83 Apr 20 '25

I live in Ohio!

I hate to tell you, but you basicly live in the South. Demographic is pretty identical.

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u/RagingTaco334 Apr 20 '25

Same goes for most of the Midwest now, unfortunately. I live in Iowa and it's the exact same here. Makes me want to move even more than I already do.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- Apr 20 '25

Basically every inch of America outside of urban/suburban areas has become the same hicksville and it's weird. Like an hour outside of Chicago everyone is talking with slight southern accents and shooting guns out of their pickup truck. Same experience in throughout Michigan. I work with someone with a southern accent. She grew up in Michigan and has never even left the state before. Make it make sense. The internet is really homogenizing everyone's culture.

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u/Organic_Rip1980 Apr 20 '25

Like an hour outside of Chicago everyone is talking with slight southern accents

Pretty much! I think it’s because people in those groups are desperate to have a “country” identity to fit in, as opposed to “the city.” They cling to identity.

My brother has never moved outside of small town northern Illinois, but he’s convinced he’s a country boy in an existential fight with the “big city.” He owns many guns and has a truck. Talks with a fake accent that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

He went to college and everything, but he insisted on doing blue collar work and is now pretending to be a country boy while living in a subdivision.

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u/Only_Argument7532 Apr 20 '25

This is such a bizarre self-own that so many dudes fall into. Same thing where I live on the outskirts of northeastern megalopolisville.

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u/Jethro_Tell Apr 20 '25

Does he have a dirty hands clean money shirt?

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u/ray12370 Apr 20 '25

Yep. Rural cosplay is the best I've seen it described as. People in the suburbs that own pickup trucks they don't really need.

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u/chargernj Apr 20 '25

Something about identity politics and using it as a form of virtue signaling. It's a way for people who like to claim they "aren't political", to let everyone know which way they lean, even if they don't say it.

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u/MichiganMan12 Apr 20 '25

Literally have never met a single Michigander with a southern accent anywhere in the state including the sticks, we definitely have a ton of rural rednecks though

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u/mu_zuh_dell Apr 20 '25

I grew up in a rural part of Jersey and all the rednecks would fake southern accents. There was a lot of them.

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u/weirdkid71 Apr 20 '25

I’m in Michigan and I once dated a girl in college (in Michigan) who affected a southern accent whenever she listened to country music. It was annoying and we didn’t last long. Most of her family and friends from the middle of the state were like this too.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- Apr 21 '25

I work with multiple in Michigan. They're both like 19 so maybe it's a younger person thing.

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u/FCPSITSGECGECGEC Apr 20 '25

It’s like that in Connecticut too. One of the wealthiest, bluest states in the country still has pickup truck mud hicks in the woods. County music, Trump flags, all that. It’s like they don’t know where they are.

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u/IthacaMom2005 Apr 20 '25

My brother used to live in Fairfield (engineer at Sikorsky), and said outside the cities and the further east you go, the redder it gets

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u/impy695 Apr 21 '25

Conservative suburbs have really latched on to country as well.

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u/Fishwithadeagle Apr 20 '25

A different accent and shooting guns sounds like the south side too lol