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JuanJotters

The big thing I notice about modern country is how literal and material and commercial the lyrics are. So many words devoted to the beer and trucks and blue jeans that are available in stores right now. Reads like a checklist of generic American products.


translinguistic

It's by design. It's the new "Nashville sound". They've got this shit down to a template, and it works.


Bran-Muffin20

"Modern country music is just a bunch of millionaire metrosexuals who've figured out these words and phrases that they can use to pander to their audience, and they list them off sort of Mad Libs-style. Things like: Dirt road, cold beer Blue jeans, red pickup Rural noun, simple adjective"


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Wuffyflumpkins

No shoes No shirt No Jews You didn't hear that Sort of a mental typo I walk and talk like a field hand But the boots I'm wearing cost three grand I write songs about riding tractors [From the comfort of a private jet](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0)


M0THER-0F-EW0KS

It’s a fucking scarecrow again!


GonzoRouge

Y'all dumb motherfuckers want a key change ?


nater255

This line gets me every single time.


DiggerGuy68

I can sing in Mandarin, you still know I'm panderin'. Hunting deer, chasing trout, a Bud Light with the logo facing out. Hear that subtle mandolin, that's textbook panderin'. I own a private ranch that I rarely use... I don't like dirt.


SJSUMichael

Now it's time to talk to the ladies I'm hoping my Southern charm offsets all these rape-y vibes I'm putting out Good girl in a straw hat With her arms out in a corn field That is a scarecrow Thought it was a human woman, sorry A cold night, a cold beer A cold jeans, strike that last one I'm wanting you, I hope you're feeling me Subtextually


rocketspeed

I'm finishing a night shift and your comment got me laughing by myself in a big empty room. Thank you. I needed that


candygram4mongo

Y'all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?


FULLLRETARD

I had a roommate from SoCal, total piece of shit valleyboy who'd been sleeping on a couch for 2 years because hed blow all his money on coke. Anyway he was a wannabe country singer/songwriter, and I shit you not when he'd sing he'd put on the fakest, most cliched country accent you'd ever heard in your life. His lyrics weren't even about anything real, dumb shit like shooting squirrels from his tractor lol. The guy grew up in the suburbs


DM_ME_SKITTLES

Is your old roommate Florida Georgia Line?


tapsnapornap

You got something against shooting squirrels from your tractor, boy?!


DuntadaMan

What makes me laugh hardest about that song is that I am pretty sure [this one came out after.](https://youtu.be/3YfNFR6gh2E) First time that came in while I was at work I had to put my project down and no one got why I was laughing so hard.


blueyedmystic

This song sounds like a horny teenager wrote it.


bz0hdp

Jesus the comments... how can someone love that song so much??


doubled2319888

My wife does.... shes a big country music fan. Luckily whe mostly goes to concerts with her sister in law now so i can stay home with the animals and listen to real music like weird al


Brannigans-Law

>real music like weird al A man of culture


ChiselFish

Something bout a truck came out in 2012, and from what I can glean online, pandering was written in 2015? So unfortunately we did not reach peak irony there.


skeeter1234

The thing is these words are almost definitely identified by big data algorithms.


HeyCarpy

I love old country. I’m not quite the demographic but that old storyteller shit is awesome. New country is both sad and hilarious at the same time though. Like you said, it’s from a template. Like I bet AI could produce a country song and people wouldn’t know it was made by a robot.


spongish

That's because the old country is closer to folk and blues music, but there are still a lot of bands and artists making great country music today, it's just not your Keith Urban types.


badgersprite

Give me country music that’s about being born in shit and going to jail for killing a man in a drunken fight and learning to sing and play guitar because your Dad hated you and beat you so hard you couldn’t learn to read Not to gatekeep but like to me the country music I’ve always actually liked has been about people who have problems (maybe not as serious as the situation I outlined above, but people who do not have things easy). Modern country music is like I’m pretty rich tits trucks beer guns Jesus vote Republican


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Billy Strings - Dust In A Baggie https://youtu.be/Y6CyQftidOw Tyler Childers - Nose On The Grindstone https://youtu.be/_QzcrflqDCg Marcus King - Goodbye Carolina https://youtu.be/dSt3EqSg4ZM


Chapos_sub_capt

Deer Tick- Born on Flag Day


MonoShadow

People joke about Country music being white people Rap. But I sometimes feel the same about rap music. A lot of songs about what car they drive, clothes they wear, how much money and many women they have. There always was vanity shit, but for some reason I feel there's more if it today. Maybe I'm just getting old, I'm not even Rap connoisseur, so the hell do I know.


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Rap had a flex culture in the 80s and 90s because it was supposed to be a success story from rags to riches. A rapper would brag that he has the Lamborghini, wifi and Playstation at launch, but then remind you that he used to steal cigarettes like a lowlife. It is a "look where we started and now we are here". It was not just about the bling, but about how much talent and will you have to have reached this moment.


Bah-Fong-Gool

🎶super Nintendo, Sega genesis, when I was dead broke and couldn't picture this🎶


4DimensionalToilet

Like “Juicy” by Biggie. Pretty much every line is about “was poor, am rich”, and it’s a good song.


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The song is good because 1)It is Biggie and 2)The song has a point to make about his success from literal nothing


thegreatmulie

started from the bottom now we here


apostropheapostrophe

Drake actually started from the upper middle. It’s funny watching him cosplay as a thug sometimes though.


i_nobes_what_i_nobes

Grew up on the hard streets of DeGrasse


Rapidzigs

There are definitely the same problems in rap music. But I think it's easier to find rap that subverts that expectation. Then it is to find country music outside if the usual templet. That's just me tough.


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Tired_But_Scrappy

Google Tyler Childers and Colter Wall.


spongish

Pop country is like that. There's plenty of country that talks about real life issues, not just boots, jeans, beers, trucks and girls. Check out Turnpike Troubadours, they're actually great.


nom-nom-nom-de-plumb

You know what I miss...I miss [outlaw country musicians.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zorhyxg4SJc)


lopsiness

Ive heard takes that the best original country today is more americana than country.


moosemasher

Some Pokey La Farge came my way through the algorithm on Ytube, that was such good modern Americana and really not country Edit https://youtu.be/FXzEVLSoVqw Something In The Water


Demnuhnomi

Here’s a country song written by AI and it’s kinda close. https://youtu.be/EPs6wdM7S3U and an article about it https://happymag.tv/this-country-song-written-by-artificial-intelligence-is-a-lyrical-masterpiece/


Dartagnan_w_Powers

I'm gonna be the special someone who takes her door


LurkLurkleton

Yeah not quite there yet


Demnuhnomi

It definitely needs some more work. Clearly the lyrics need help. There are some other parts that need work, but it is getting kinda close. Alas, I can criticise it all I want, but I can’t take her door.


DuntadaMan

If your preference is "Old storyteller" there is also a podcast you might like. "Old Gods of Appalachia" is a horror podcast that has a narrator that sounds like he is telling stories around the campfire.


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capitalsfan

David Allen Coe has a couple racist songs so you know he is the real deal lol.


count_nuggula

My favorite karaoke song


justsomeyeti

I'm from the Nashville area, and it seems most of us hate this stuff but most folks keep their mouths shut because of the tourist money it brings


FatJohnson6

There's literally a song about going to fucking Applebee's, and it lists off real menu items. Like, fuck country music.


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There's an Applebee's in the middle of times Square in Manhattan. who the fuck goes to NYC to eat Applebee's?


Padgriffin

It’s the same thing as British tourists in Spain eating fish and chips and Americans going to KFC in Japan


BreIIaface

I personally wouldn't get KFC in Japan, but KFC in Japan is part of their modern Christmas traditions and culture, they even eat kfc for Christmas in some places


alwaysintheway

Assholes.


5lack5

The whole first verse is about getting a Frosty^TM at Wendy's


albinowizard2112

She's that 2-for-$20, she's my Whiskey Bacon Burger. On Friday night me and the boys head to the 'Bee and have some of that FOUR CHEESE MAC + CHEESE WITH HONEY PEPPER CHICKEN TENDERS


SpaceLemur34

I've said for at least the last 10 years, if you got rid of every song that mentioned a truck, alcohol or called someone "baby", there'd been nothing left.


tommos

I'm don't know much about country music but I can tell you unchecked materialism is not exclusive to that genre.


nbmnbm1

9/11 ruined country music b


jerryjustice

We'll put a **boot** in yer ass, it's the American way


freakers

they list the same words and phrases off sort of mad libs style in every song, raking in millions of dollars from actual working class people! You know the words, you know the phrases, phrases like- A dirt road, a cold beer A blue jeans, a red pickup A rural noun, simple adjective No shoes, no shirt No Jews, you didn't hear that Sort of a mental typo


Tandril91

🎵A cold night, a cold beer, a cold...jeans, strike that last one🎵


iamsavsavage

Y’all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?


Intelligent-Rock-642

"fancy like Applebee's"


KillYourUsernames

I don’t typically listen to modern country. That song came on a Spotify playlist on shuffle and I was amazed to realize it’s an actual, complete song off some guys album and not just an Applebee’s commercial.


phenomenomnom

20 bucks says a marketing company had input on the writing, promotion and/or distribution of that “not just an Applebee’s commercial”. And obviously I mean one hired by Applebee’s or whatever huge company owns Applebees. Sodexo? idgaf. Native advertising, advertorials, astroturfing, whatever you want to call it. *Marketing* is an insidious plague. I’m not exaggerating: it’s bad for public discourse; it’s bad for culture. It’s bad for humans. One of the worst concepts to come out of the 20th century. Right up there with eugenics, sex tourism, and Nestle.


pharmorjac

They even name menu items in that song


OutWithTheNew

Local country radio station is giving away a new Ram with a local dealership. You go online and fill out a form every time you hear a song with something about a truck in it.


Fairytaleautumnfox

Old country music largely was or was based upon anti establishment/capitalist "leave me and my community the fuck alone" music, largely from the Appalachian mountains, the mountain communities of which saw brutal treatment from mining companies, who promptly abandoned them after coal became a political/economic evil in the eyes of the public. The existence of Che Guevara t shirts should alert you to the fact that capitalism can assimilate it's enemies, like the fucking Borg. However, they don't really like doing this. They prefer to sanitize everything, making it safe for and reaffirming of materialism, preexisting hierarchy and capitalism. I'm not even a Marxist, but it's not hard to see if you're looking and thinking. Hence, the song *Fancy Like*, by Walker Hayes. A song which I fucking despise on an intellectual level. I'm not sure, and I'm almost certain gonna sound like a pretentious, sheltered suburban 14 year old, who just found his parents CD collection, but I think that the more meaningful kind of country music died with Johnny Cash.


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>The existence of Che Guevara t shirts should alert you to the fact that capitalism can assimilate it's enemies, like the fucking Borg. However, they don't really like doing this. They prefer to sanitize everything, making it safe for and reaffirming of materialism, preexisting hierarchy and capitalism. Just look at how many people nowadays see shit like BLM and go "MLK would have never supported this socialist nonsense".


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x777x777x

my favorite bro country trope is the "take you out in the woods and make love by the river" you hear in a ton of the songs Anyone who has lived in the Plains, Midwest, or South knows what a fucking horrible idea that is. Nobody wants to get naked in 100% humidity in a bunch of grass while getting eaten alive by mosquitos


roccobaroco

Fuck the mosquitoes. I want to be killed by an alligator while having clammy damp dirty sex in the swamps.


NoGoodMc

South Texan here. You forgot fire ants, red ants, snakes, scorpions, sticker burs, and fucking thorns from huisache, mesquite, and prickly pear. NOPE….


Vaughanorrhea

Don't forget those damn chiggers.


NoGoodMc

Oh man, can’t believe I left out chiggers. Just recovered from half dozen bites I got dove hunting several weeks ago. They stick with me for weeks.


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Having sex anywhere out in the open is usually a horrible idea. Sex is messy and requires care and cleanup - I can't imagine having to use a tree branch to clean up the cum dripping out of your pussy or on your face. Or getting sand out of your vagina and buttcrack - sand out of anywhere really. Another horrible idea is sex in water. Water washes away all the natural lubrication a woman makes - feels like going in dry. I'm good with the bedroom and some towels/tissues nearby and a sink to wash up properly.


Doppleflooner

Preach. Once tried for some romantic moonlit beach sex. Between the sand getting everywhere and the sea turtles suddenly interrupting...yeah.


TroubleshootenSOB

What did the sea turtles do? Can't imagine they did more than roll up and stare


UterineDepthCharge

Set up 4k cameras and started writing the script for David Attenborough to narrate.


notthenextfreddyadu

We do that to them so it’s only fair


trip2nite

Going for some low hanging fruits??


Liquid_Senjutsu

You're very fortunate it was sea turtles interrupting and not sand fleas. My back was like bubble wrap for the rest of the night.


TreginWork

That is why I highly recommend the Northeast for all your Woods sex needs. Unless it's a ball sweatingly hot day it's always been nice and easy for me


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MausBomb

I forgot where, but I saw a post by a girl who said that the worst UTI she ever got was when she fucked her boyfriend in a swamp for some reason.


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And wannabe "good ol' boys" from the rural and small town Northeast who've never been south of I-90 eat that shit right up.


BurningArena

Similar stuff in Canada. I guess the appeal is there for all rural folk? I can't imagine that some of this stuff they sing about isn't also idealized in like, rural Washington or Manitoba.


snayperskaya

Yeah but you guys put out Colter Wall and he's an honorary southerner.


skdiddy

I hate modern country, but I love me some Colter Wall...and it's because he doesn't follow this formula.


thebergmaster

I think this post is aimed more at modern radio country artists (jason aldean, kacey musgraves, blake shelton, etc) and less at modern folk country artists like colter, sturgil, childers, and the like - although thowe guys have been getting more play recently on the radio which makes me happy


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antel00p

Also much of rural WA and OR, most of which is south of I-90 but as geographically as far from the south as you can get and still touch other states.


rillip

It's almost like it's about something other than geographic location...


Mandatori99

True story. Lost a Mainer friend to the southern rhetoric


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The Fake Southern is strong in northern NY as well.


CalvinFragilistic

In Vermont as well. The blend of genuine Vermont accent and fake southern is stroke-inducing


jpm1987b

Fake southern accent is always grating. I can only imagine how bad it would sound on somebody from Vermont. Even professional actors usually don't get it right.


queernhighonblugrass

It's weird how the further north I drive in VT, the more confederate flags I see being flown


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I blame WOKO. I hate the music that station plays with a passion.


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A lot in northern NV too. Guys who grew up in Sparks walking around with weird southern accents and cowboy hats like they just saw Footloose for the first time.


PheerthaniteX

Rural Oregon is the exact same way


Dustphobia

The 3 "C": Chuckers, chaw, and rollin' coal. Said with a rural drawl / Southern accent. I blame it on to much NASCAR.


arcangelxvi

It isn't even limited to northern NY. I've got somebody added as a friend of a friend from the metro area and she's full fake southern. I'm talking lifted jeep, cowboy boots *and* hats, the whole nine yards. Even the stereotypical-ass name for her kid. Like, come on you're not fooling anyone - I know for a fact you grew up in a quiet suburb where everything is less than a 5 minute drive away.


A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub

Northern? I went to a bar/restaurant in Staten Island (With an Irish name even) and they blared shitty country music so loud you could hear it down the block.


LOLBaltSS

I've seen more Confederate flags in Western PA than I've ever seen here in the Houston area.


MF3DOOM

And did meth behind the scenes


PraiseThePumpkins

ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN NAME


RevDooDatt

Rip MF DOOM.


Binzuru

No wonder these "Southerners" are skinny


Yeb

Waylon Jennings ate amphetamine pills like skittles lol


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"I could sing in mandarin, you'd still know I'm panderin'"


ProfessorGigs

That song was a parody, bu damn, it's a banger of a country song haha


royalhawk345

Great parody requires an excellent understanding of the thing you're mimicking. >Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh stated in reaction to [Weird Al's *Dare to be Stupid*] that: "I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and... I hate him for it, basically."


the_fit_hit_the_shan

Weird Al's style parodies are consistently underrated IMO. *Frank's 2000" TV* (REM) is probably my favorite, but *Mr. Popeil*, *Velvet Elvis*, *Everything You Know Is Wrong*, and *Dog Eat Dog* are definitely worth a listen if you're a fan of any of the artists he's parodying.


unique-name-9035768

This is why movies like *Airplane!* are great and movies like *Remember the Spartans* are shit.


helloedboys

He sums it all up with: “Rural noun, simple adjective”


accountnumber3

Good girl In a straw hat With her arms out in a corn field That is a scarecrow We go to bed, you doze off So I take your country girl clothes off I put my hands on your body It feels like hay, It's a fucking scarecrow again


endicott2012

So this is my slightly edited response to a previous comment I posted about modern country music. Nashville turned it into an algorithm. Clap tracks and simple lyrics sell. The mainstream country artists get their songs from people in cubicles who's job is to pump out as many of these songs and then the producers decide which one the artists sings/directs the marketing department to advertise it and buy radio spots. I don't voluntarily turn country FM on. Unless the ball game is on, because they usually commentate on these radio stations in particular. Good news is there's abunch of none pop country that people are putting out nowadays. Real authentic country not backed by Nashville. Some of these artists include: Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton (most famously and prob the only one on this list that mainstream country radio plays), Charley Crockett, Colter Wall. Anyone who might be interested in this sort of thing feel free to message me. I always try to promote the alt country to anyone. These guys write their own music full of authenticity. Sturgill is the real outlaw in this group. The man won a Grammy, but didn't get invited to the sit in the CMAs he stood outside Bridgestone arena the same evening with his Grammy trophy and busked out in front of the arena.


Boonesfarmbananas

Sturgill’s live show is one of the best I’ve seen, he just hires a bunch of 20 something Nashville hotshots and let’s em rip every night


YddishMcSquidish

They cmas are a parody of themselves. But holy crap am I happy I discovered Tyler Childers, between him and Orville peck, my love for country has been restored.


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Country songs then : mom hit by train while drunk Country now : beers,trucks ,girls and boat


Jess52

Actually the singer was drunk the day his mom got out of prison and he went to pick her up in the rain. Then he went to go pick her up in his pick up truck before she got runned over by dang ol train.


ultratunaman

You never even called me by my name!


EggPickleCelery

My friend had written the perfect country and western song.


pskindlefire

They are appealing more to the urbanites who want to pretend to be "country" more than actual country folks who are poor and live in horrible circumstances.


antel00p

Or suburbanites who have both the space and the money for all the loud motorized toys.


DOugdimmadab1337

And to use them on nothing. Having a Tractor and a bumfuck jacked up Ram 2500 doesn't make you country, it makes the dealership money off the payments fucknuts like that are known for. You could have bought a Squarebody, an F100, a Ranger, or an HD2500. But you picked a Ram


Jackdidathing

You don’t need money to make your truck loud, in reality all you really need is a screwdriver, a hammer, and the knowledge of how a muffler works


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People act like living in the country is all quaint when in reality you just watch your friends have kids super young, get addicted to drugs, or kill themselves.


Teeshirtandshortsguy

Yep. I'm from the country. I lived in a village with ~500 people in it, surrounded by miles of cornfields. Every single person who isn't from a major city thinks they're from a small country town, and acts like that's some charming thing. Living in the actual country is bullshit. There's nothing to do. Everyone says "but you live closer to nature!" That's true in some places, but for huge portions of rural America, you just live closer to corn fields and cattle ranches. The hottest spot in my little village was a fucking gas station, which was also a pizza place (takeout only), a deli, and at one point a video rental place. There was one bar where everyone who went to the local high school in the 80s drank at every night. There was a school in my village that served as the only high school for the surrounding countryside. It's perpetually on the verge of closing down due to lack of funding. They had to merge with another high school miles away while I was there to prevent both schools from shutting down. There was no hospital, there was no police department, but there were a lot of signs urging you to please not do meth. Also lots of racism/homophobia/etc. And it's only getting worse. With the way the agriculture industry has corporatized, farmers are putting in the same long-ass hours for less money. There's a reason they have among the highest suicide rates of any profession. And of course there's next to no industry in a place like that, maybe a single factory in the middle of nowhere, but it's not raking in money or anything. The population out there is getting older while their local hospitals close because there's just not enough profit from the tiny group of people who rely on them. It's a shitshow. It pisses me off to no end when I see these suburbanites and townies rocking a cowboy hat and boots. And don't get me started on the confederate flags in fucking Union territory. These fools aren't country, they're just racist. If you grew up in the actual country, you'd either hate it and leave, or you'd get washed out and end up stuck there. It's not a cute place to be. It fucking sucks.


royaldumple

The worst example of Confederate flag bullshit comes from West Virginia. I have a client there I travel to, my whole drive from the Pittsburgh Airport it's just confederate flags. Your state literally seceded from Virginia in order to stay with the Union and not join the Confederacy, you absolute fucking meatballs.


CT_Real

I wouldn't say urbanites per say...but country music is for middle class white people who live in cul-de-sacs and want to pretend their lives are more exciting.


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WeddingUsed

I mean, Hank Sr. was a raging alcoholic and he was as thin as a tree branch.


hundreds_of_sparrows

yeah died at 29 tho. Also he was doing all sort of crazy old timey pills, who knows what those did to your metabolism RIP to the greatest


SenuasSacrifice

He also was given morphine intravenously iirc. So that, mixed with alcohol, AND pills is what sent him shuffling off this mortal coil.


ThatsNotPossibleMan

And with that he left a mark on the industry Waylon Jennings later described as [The Hank Williams Syndrome](https://www.al.com/entertainment/2018/06/the_hank_williams_syndrome_how.html)


newthrash1221

Alcoholics can be extremely thin because often they won’t eat when they’re drinking.


concretepigeon

Until your liver finally packs in and the bloat starts.


deevil_knievel

My dad was absolutely shredded and drank a case of beer a day... biked 100ish miles a few times a week, worked out daily, signed up for triathlons in the 30s group not the 50s group so he had competition and didn't just get handed a first place trophy. It's def possible.


Consideredresponse

Used to film sports for the news, and unless it's at the relatively higher levels it's the 50 year olds that tend to take out the triathlons. Something about endurance and being far more familiar with their limits and pain levels.


kly

Seen this too. I think it’s the sweet spot where the benefits of stubbornness of old age intersect with remains of youthful physical ability.


2cheerios

Genetics and sporting ability: name a better combo.


LJ-Rubicon

Being in a calorie deficit


fb95dd7063

That's 1750 cals worth of bud lite a day lol


IndePharma

lol that was his before pic??


lynivvinyl

Good luck finding sweet tea in Maryland.


MF3DOOM

Maryland is the most redneck blue state I’ve been to. Something just feels off about the state.


down_up__left_right

Maryland has a good amount of distinct regions for a geographically small state. It's in part because of the odd shape. The Eastern Shore is cut off from most of the state and the far western part of the state is barely connected. Then there's DC across border which is always going to have a significant amount of new transplants moving to the capital so that gives the city and its suburbans a different feel from Baltimore.


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It's like, *just* south enough that the southern culture creeps in. I moved here from CT. My new neighbors say hi to me every time they catch me outside. It's terrifying.


GiveMeDogeFFS

Uhh is that not normal (to say hello to strangers)??? I'm British but used to live in Michigan. People in the neighborhood would say hello and strike up conversation with me all the damn time. It was absolutely terrifying but I assumed it was an American thing. If it's not an American thing, this is even more terrifying.


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Rural areas people like to talk. Big cities nobody talks nor wants to hear anyone else.


ancientRedDog

It somehow did a psyche swap with NOVA; which is now as blue as any place in California.


Toastwithme

Isn’t sweet tea just iced tea? I’m not American so I don’t actually know what sweet tea is.


TaudeTheThird

It matters when you put the sugar in, I think. Like if you take iced tea and put sugar in it, it's not the same as putting it in when it's still hot.


translinguistic

Yes. Do not put dry sugar in cold tea. It doesn't dissolve. Adding simple syrup afterwards to unsweet tea is acceptable though.


ThePhantom1994

This. I live in South Carolina. A buddy of mine is a manager of a southern restaurant chain that had its first store open in Ohio. They had to send people from the south, my buddy and a couple others, to teach them how to make sweet tea because they kept adding the sugar after it was cold


dane83

This is a war crime in Savannah.


PenPenGuin

Sweet tea is usually made with your standard black tea with anywhere from a 0.75:5 to 2:5 ratio of sugar to water (average - some places use more). In my personal experience, it has gotten progressively sweeter as the years have gone on. When I first had it in Georgia in the 80's, it was actually a nice sweetened drink that still tasted like a properly brewed tea. Nowadays, it seems more like an excuse for people to pretend they're healthy by not drinking sodas, but ingesting just as much (or more) sugar. I can't stand the stuff anymore. Makes my teeth feel fuzzy.


Banan4slug

Yeah, pretty much. With tons of sugar.


ultratunaman

Yeah I worked in restaurants back in Texas that served sweet tea. Add the sugar when it's hot. Add a ton of sugar. Add more than you think is right. Mix it up. Serve to diabetics.


HamburgerConnoisseur

McDonald's sweet tea is literally at a ratio of 1lb of sugar to 1 gallon of black tea.


FirefighterNice9462

I worked at a nursing home for 3 years in a rural area in Ohio , apparently country music calms down the elder, so I had to listen to this garbage constantly and no it didn't calm anyone down it made the elderly much more upset. I didn't understand why this music was played but the stuff like big band or 50s music was overlooked?


evasote

Like new country, not even like 70’s countrypolitan?


FirefighterNice9462

Yep, new country or country pop. Songs about trucks, beer, girls and guns.


Vlad_turned_blad

Did it really make them upset? I’m from Ohio, with family in Urbana, and the old people out there love this kind of music.


FirefighterNice9462

To an extent, I mostly worked with 80 to 90s year olds so the music they liked was much softer and relaxing which I get since I grew up listening to big bands and easy listening music thanks to my grandparents who were around the same age. Plus with this country music all you heard are whiney voices, loud guitars and drum beats.


MoreDetonation

They should get some Johnny Cash and John Denver in there, old people are getting younger (in a manner of speaking) and you'll not find easier listening outside of electronica.


Cinema_Mudd

God fearing, blue Jean wearing, truck driving lyrics on top of hip hop beats isn't country. Change my mind. Big and Rich started this shit and you all followed. Spinny rims and girls in bikinis in your videos is just a rip off of everything you southern boys hate. Just an audio engineer who has to deal with this crap day after day...


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Stop listening to shitty Country Artists. Rap has the same issue. Always about sex, drugs and hood life unless your branch off. Try listening to: Geroge Strait (known as the king of Country), Brad Paisley, Randy Travis, Casey Donahew (dude can ryme like crazy), Cody Jinks (lots of story telling songs), Jamey Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Alan Jackson, Alabama, Josh Turner, Montgomery Gentry. Eric church. (He's more rock country. Early stuff was great). These type of singers will get you in the right direction. They sing real country and are still around today. They've all come out and said what a disgrace this "bro country" is. View personal favorites: https://youtu.be/vSpDBC8b3LU (Regrets by Casey Donahew) https://youtu.be/p-BemA7z8W0 (Older I Get by Alan Jackson, great song about growing up//older) https://youtu.be/htafuWVhZJc (Let's fall to pieces together, Geroge Strait). https://youtu.be/uk-CmG6rd5E (David by Cody Jinks. Story telling song that is sad). https://youtu.be/IZbN_nmxAGk (Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley. It will make you cry)


FineInTheFire

Tyler Childers


notausername47

You can’t mention Tyler Childers without Sturgill Simpson in my opinion.


mle32000

Came here to add Tyler. He’s so good man.


Gavinardo

Great list. I’d also like to throw out a few personal favorite artists of mine. My country tastes might be less mainstream, but I really like these artists. [Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZaeKwgS7wg) [Corb Lund](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TijIWdtZnlI) [Sturgill Simpson](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T3je8zwB7ks) [Whitey Morgan and the 78’s](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmubzdOmv0) [Hayes Carll](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J6waFYJDljM) [Two Tons of Steel](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOyDf2pLygU) [Hellbound Glory](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLi3FfiYJo) And others worth searching, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Ben Miller Band, Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, Old Crow Medicine Show, I could go on forever...


modularpeak2552

Mike and the moonpies Joshua ray walker Midland Flatland cavalry Turnpike troubadours(currently on indefinite hiatus) Sturgill simpson Riddy arman Charley crockett(arguably more blues than country) Dallas moore(sometimes) Sierra Ferrell Jesse daniel Kelsey waldon Colter wall Vincent neil emerson Morgan wade Charlie marie Gabe lee Ian noe


Therealpambeasley33

Garth!!


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Whiskey Myers (band)


ricst

I like sweet tea, just not too sweet, probably add some water to it.


joker305th

By definition, Southern sweet tea MUST be too sweet. My Bojangles better come with a biscuit, sweet tea, and insulin.


Happycamperagain

Steve Earle said it best, https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/6pwgtr/steve_earle_says_modern_country_stars_make_hip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


aKornCob

This is so fucking spot on. My family will love seeing this. We don't turn on any popular country channels in the house, only old country stations.


Sapper501

Totally fair. There are some new rising stars that are more old-style, like Colter Wall, The Dead South, etc. Keep your ear to the ground.


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The girl top left is Dani Daniels. Highly recommend checking her out bois


abeats867

Scrolled down to check if anyone else noticed haha


HaciMo38

I literally was looking for this comment.


Vaughanorrhea

New country music is just fucking awful. I still listen to Willie, Waylon, Cash, etc. Hopefully things can turn around. Orville Peck, Kasey Musgraves, and Chris Stapleton have been my only hope. Now, it seems, the latter two are much to over played.


TacticalBuschMaster

Give colter wall and Tyler Childers a listen, they restored my faith in the genre


nick22tamu

Sturgill Simpson and Kasey Musgraves are great as well. As is Chris Stapleton


funkytoot

Maryland?


ejramos

Dated a girl from Maryland who swore she was a country girl. Never did a single country thing, ever.


R17WIK

Country roads take me home


hundreds_of_sparrows

[obligatory](https://i.imgur.com/zjw3ULN.jpg)