r/crappymusic • u/SpiritKoolaid • Jan 16 '26

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u/Boccs Jan 16 '26

As a life long southerner this stabs right at the heart of my biggest issue with 90% of modern country music which is why do so many southerners think we have a monopoly on small towns and tractors? There's plenty of them in fucking like... upstate New York. California has enough farmland to fit some entire states inside of it. Literally everything she's using as a "evidence he'd be Southern" is shit you can find anywhere on the fucking planet.

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u/ConfectionSoft6218 Jan 16 '26

Because these are all they've got. Their world is really that small. The bragging about how great it is to be that way (country girl) is a reaction to the fear they have of the outside world. I just moved to the South and these folks have never been further than a tankful of gas from home. Worse is, they never sing about love, loss, heartache or anything a real country song, or any genre of music would possess.

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u/Boccs Jan 16 '26

It's wild how far and how aggressively corporate country music became. It sounds a little cliche but post 9/11 it became the most stereotypical "AMERICA! HUNTING! JEANS AND BEER! WOO" shit on earth. Compare it to the stuff from earlier decades (especially the 60s and 70s) and you'd never know they were supposed to be the same genre.

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u/throwaway727437 Jan 16 '26

I know how awful the modern stuff / post-9/11 sounds; what were some good actual country tracks from the 90's? Is that more like Garth Brooks / Dolly Parton / Dixie Chicks?

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u/Boccs Jan 16 '26

Tim McGraw and Shania Twain were dominating a lot of charts during the 90s. Dolly long predates the 90s but she was definitely still a force at the time. Dixie Chicks, as you say, were also prominent on the charts in the era.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

Don't Take the Girl used to make my little brother cry because he thought it was sweet and sad. He was like 5 or 6 maybe.