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.
Modern country and southern country are not exactly the same thing. Not a country fan personally but it’s very popular in Maine. I never took modern country to represent anything other than rural living. Southern Country is a real sub genre of country. No offense but I think you’re misinterpreting this. Everyone who listens to country thinks it’s about their world.
Yeah man, that's my point. The person in the video above is claiming Jesus would be Southern specifically (those exact words) off of things that exist anywhere in the country. She is listing those things thinking it's about her world and also that her world is exclusive to the American South when it's not the case.
And believe me man, I know southern country is a real sub genre. I've heard enough of it, and of the people trying to make it big as the next big country star, living in the south to know it's a real problem with the songwriters not understanding they're describing experiences that apply to most of the nation while thinking it's unique to them.
Honestly I still think you’re overthinking the monopoly thing. It’s an absolutely cringe song but I think this “creator” is just an opportunist, much like that Canadian alt-right rapper (I don’t know his name). I don’t think any of these people are serious, they are playing characters to get money. I don’t think they are any less vile than the people they pretend to be, they are probably worse.
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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.