Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time


I seriously can’t think of anything worse. I grew up listening to country music in the late 80s and early 90s, and a lot of that was pretty bad. But this new stuff, yikes.

Who sees some pretty boy on a stage with a badly exaggerated generic southern accent and a 600 dollar denim jacket shoehorning the words “ice cold beer” into every third line of a song and says “Ooh I like this, this music is for me!”

I would literally rather listen to anything else.Seriously, there’s nothing I can think of, at least not in my lifetime or the hundred or so years of recorded music I own, that seems worse.

bhagal

@bdp24 - nice post and great background.

I would add that music is art, and the value of art is subjectively judged by the individual experiencing it.  With any artistic endeavor, there are usually both supporters and detractors, so judging art on an absolute scale is pointless.  As mentioned by @tomcarr - you either like it or you don't.

This argument is the equivalent of, "I don't like Jazz, because I hate Smooth Jazz". Gotta separate the wheat from the chaff.

Toolbox149

Any music that people like is good music to those people. But I don't consider music I don't like to be 'bad music'; it's just music I don't like. I like rock and pop and reggae. I don't happen to like jazz and country but I'd never say they're 'bad'. I make no value judgements of genre quality.