[ SECRET POST #4136 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4136 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. It's tough.

Like, personally, I definitely agree with you and I get where you're coming from. For me, pop country is mostly unlistenable.

But I also feel like I don't know enough about the economic and cultural background that pop-country is drawing from, and marketing towards, to be able to totally dismiss it out of hand. Maybe it is a basically middle-class genre but I don't know for sure.

And in general, the way that class intersects with popular music is so fucking complicated that I can't even pretend to make broad judgments about it.

[(Anonymous)]

the way that class intersects with popular music is something I should have done my graduate thesis on 20 years ago. oh well too late now.

but I really do feel like OP is onto something with that. even though it would be a much less popular topic of social criticism than 90's rap and violence. white people don't like to be told that they're doing it wrong even when they're so very, very wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

That's maybe true for social criticism but definitely not applicable to academic criticism

[(Anonymous)]

true! but I'm too old for academic criticism. the kids these days think my Black Flag is oldies and I can't handle that.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It's become a genre for people slightly above the median income who think that owning a truck and a hat makes one salt-of-the-earth. There's a lot of feel-good wish fulfillment for conservatives going on.

[feotakahari]

In other words, Ryan Zinke?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yeah.

A large part of the problem was deregulation of radio in the 80s, and the largest networks were as sycophantic to Reagan/Bush as they could get away with. The Dixie Chicks were just one of the more explicit examples of artists getting blacklisted for having the wrong opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

DA. I still miss the Dixie Chicks. They were awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

another DA

I don't even listen to country and I remneber them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a day late, but I've found that most people around here (northern suburbs of Pittsburgh to be slightly exact) that listen to country are middle to upper middle class white kids who don't like rap or alternative, have racists/prejudicial thoughts that they may or may not admit to, and think that owning a truck, fishing, and listening to country makes them "hicks". Meanwhile, not one of them could actually tough it out in the "stix"...