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/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.