Why is country music so depressing?

[YosemiteSam]

No such thing as bad music unless it's performed poorly.

Slayer's Gary Holt seems to believe that Imagine Dragons is the ****tiest band on Earth.

 

[CouchCoach]

Slayer's Gary Holt seems to believe that Imagine Dragons is the ****tiest band on Earth.

Noel Gallagher said Mumford & Sons was nothing more than bluegrass on steroids when they were nominated in the Rock category with their first album.

 

[BoltsNHorns]

It is strictly a music preference and a lot of people in the South were raised around Country and it has roots in family for them the same way Big Band and Sinatra have for me. That's what was played in my home growing up.

You have a ton of company as Country is still a top radio format and if there is a safe music format, that's it. The thug element of HipHop and some of the bizarre behavior of some of the Pop stars builds a disconnect with a lot of people. Country is safe, you don't hear a lot of negative about the performers and that is by design as Country listeners have hard expectations of the people they let in their homes and lives. The most surprising thing about Country to me was when they began to allow the "hells" and "damns" and other adult language in the songs released to radio stations. That was forbidden for a long time as the research always revealed that most of the church goers preferred County music. A real dichotomy with a bunch of music associated with cheating and drinking but that was fact for many years.

Then the music began to broaden and the audience grew and they discovered it was about music preference, not lifestyle, and began to create accordingly.

As to your question, you are right for you.

Thank you for the info. It may be right but its wrong in this circumstances. Everywhere you go, you hear music you can't relate to and especially during college party back when you were younger, and you just feel so lost and not know how to dance to certain beats. Country is simple, its beautiful, and I still have yet to meet a person that listen to country music and not just Taylor Swift. Not since I left Nashville when I was a little child.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Noel Gallagher said Mumford & Sons was nothing more than bluegrass on steroids when they were nominated in the Rock category with their first album.

Never heard of them. Just listen to part of one song called guiding light. Sound like pop music to me. If that is rock, Slayer is bluegrass on steroids.

 

[CouchCoach]

Never heard of them. Just listen to part of one song called guiding light. Sound like pop music to me. If that is rock, Slayer is bluegrass on steroids.

They burst on the scene playing acoustic music on Alt radio and there wasn't a category for what they did so they ended up in the Rock category and pissed Gallagher off, he was right, they were not Rock by most standards but was Oasis Rock or Pop? They were Pop to me but then again, I may define Rock different than some.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Ya,well,,,once you started wearing those shoes& being fed them thereTablets of Love, under the seven bridges road ( bridge #5) which is closest to the south bound exit ramp to the Hotel California, the Steve Miller band Would more than likely drop kick a handsome dent in yer' elephant eared directional deep tonal mid-pitched range TUBA,of tin manufacture,,,, jackie Chan Style,,,ya, you'd best tread a mite lite afoot down in that A.O.,,, GIMME,,,,just saying

OK, OK!

 

[Melonfeud]

OK, OK!

" claiming the winner title once again,,,MELONFEUD"

 

[Melonfeud]

Of course. I feel the same way about some types of music, but I don't say anything because I don't want to offend someone who likes it.

AH-HA,,,I knew it!,,, for there within lies the character defect of yer' nature,,,

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Slayer's Gary Holt seems to believe that Imagine Dragons is the ****tiest band on Earth.

2nd...….
1.Nickleback
3. Mumford and Sons.

 

[Melonfeud]

2nd...….
1.Nickleback
3. Mumford and Sons.

#4 3 doors down
#5 the electric prunes

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

#4 3 doors down
#5 the electric prunes

6.U2
7.The Foo Fighters
8.Dashboard Confessional.
9.Train
10.RATM.
So may bands/acts I could have put 6-10 these are 1st that came to mind though.

 

[Melonfeud]

6.U2
7.The Foo Fighters
8.Dashboard Confessional.
9.Train
10.RATM.
So may bands/acts I could have put 6-10 these are 1st that came to mind though.

I know,I know,,,

 

[YosemiteSam]

10.RATM.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Not bad at all, just not my cup of tea.
Maybe I need to make a revision,
#10 The Black Keys.

 

[Melonfeud]

"Rally round yer' family, wit'dat pocket fulla shells",,,

 

[Melonfeud]

Not bad at all, just not my cup of tea.
Maybe I need to make a revision,
#10 The Black Keys.

 

[CouchCoach]

If we're going to be going for the worst bands, we're going to be here awhile.

 

[kskboys]

Country music is sweet nostalgia. It's about life and love and people. Not all that much of it is about losing your wife and dog and such.

 

[Runwildboys]

It's good if it has a banjo.
If I need cheering up, Grandpa Jones is My go-to Guy.

My father jammed with him once. Wish I had a recording of it.

 

[CouchCoach]

My father jammed with him once. Wish I had a recording of it.

Small world, my Diddy jammed with Ronny Cox once.