Country music is an evil evil word in the "eastern" culture's rolodex of accepted music. But to me, I have found an almost unexplainable love of this genre. I was first introduced to a pure fan of country through law school in my buddy, Shaun, who it seems at some point while he was a student at The College of the Holy Cross caught a case of the country and never was able to quite shake himself of this illness. As a result, he began to spread his illness to the masses or atleast the population at my law school. Fortunately for me, I was able to avoid this disease by inundating myself with a lot overly produced and relatively juvenile selection of pop punk bands.
To my dismay, however, after I graduated, I began to listen to something other than the crap that I infested my soul with while trying to figure out the Federal Tax Code and came to realize that country today in many ways is just the classic rock music that I heard on a daily basis on 104.3. I think in alot of ways, country music is a pure form of just making music and just trying to rock and as a result, I believe that a lot of country artists have capitalized on this factor and become quite successful. Thus country today in many ways has become the ZZ Top or Charlie Daniels(and yes I know he was country) band of the old.... So now I find myself flipping around on Sirius and tapping my foot to some country song that I may not even know the artist but that I still find to contain a little bit of rock n' roll...
And yes, I am prepared to be judged.
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Country is lame. Can't say much more about it than that.
No, I guess, some country music might not be awful but the general romanticism of the country bumpkin with a pickup truck and cowboy boots just rubs me the wrong way. Makes me think of the posturing of George Bush. And that is bad.
Who thinks jingle gets a little chub every time he writes about GWB?
I have big huge one right now in fact... Unnnnh. Gahahaha. Never mind, just took care of that.
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