It feels like all my relatives listen to this shit.
Basically. White reactionaries in the middle class actually spend a good deal of money just so they can LOOK like poor people. Personally, I like to call them "cosplay cowboys".
If you're a poor fool like me who's born in North America AND can't afford to live in megacities like NYC, Montreal, Toronto, LA, etc. You know what I'm talking about.
Country music is not conspicuous. Which is the topic here.
Growing up I had to listen to Toby Keith singing about putting a boot up Bin Laden's ass so many times it's permanently burned into my brain even though I lived north of the Mason-Dixon at the time.
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You're right though, so many people here think they're rugged country men while listening to a pop music with fake southern accents by people that grew up in rich suburbs.
It's the obsession with Americana
I just got back from the state fair and it's all Cowboy hats and leather jackets
Like, just because you have a F-150 you take to Whole Foods and a horse you keep in a stable five towns over, that don't make you a country boy
I went to suburban (read rich) Connecticut once, and ya that shit was everywhere.
I was eating Korean food for lunch today at a new restaurant and the food was really good but they were playing that basic, country-esque White people music and it was terrible. I was like "Why, God?”
It became one of the default "not of the city" music genres. It became the background noise of white people.
Coming from the (non-coastal) Southwest with midwestern parents, I fucking hate country music with every fiber of my being.
Sturgill Simpson just woke up one morning and decided to make like 5 new genres of music.
Wife truck dog beer gun gas
A.I.
Sure, I'd be happy to help create a song using those words. Here's a short verse:
In the cab of that wife's truck, under the prairie sky so wide,
With our loyal dog beside us, joy and love, our only guide.
We raise a can of frothy beer, to life, to love, to freedom's song,
In this moment, we're the toughest, with our trusty gun, we're strong.
Fueled by gas and boundless dreams, we ride, two souls as one.
I always hated country music but got into it with Johnny Cashs American Recordings and after watching Ken Burns documentation "Country Music" I am even more open to it. It is a kind of grassroot music, music of the people.
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/episode-guide
something something white cultural identification something
edit: I mean this seriously, I just can't remember what the exact terminology is for "participating in this [country music] culture as a way of reaffirming whiteness and the status quo that comes with it"
