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[AOWR-Theoo Stratiotes]

I am posting this as a discussion for why all those weird people out there don't like country.

P.S: How do you spell agsagerate?

[Cossack]

I don't mind country.....I like watching the music videos cuz they are usually quite funny.

Oh yeah, and that song "save a horse ride a cowby" is just to die for. JK

P.S. this is how you spell exaggerate

Edited by Cossack, 29 June 2006 - 01:28 AM.

[Jeeves]

I dislike country because all that I've heard of it has been somewhat tiny sounding, rather limited depth to sound, and rather monotonous. I like most music, but anything that sounds the same all the way through bores me terribly.

Edited by Jeeves, 29 June 2006 - 11:09 AM.

[Athena]

Good point. Moved.

I don't know, I suppose there would be people who like country, maybe they just aren't a lot on this forum.
I like Mark Knopfler's "What it is" and "Sailing To Philadelphia", but I don't know what 'genre' that exactly would fall into, don't think it's country really, though of all songs I like it comes closest to country I think .

[Beowulf]

It's too boring. I don't like it cause it sucks ass.
I prefer a good hard Megadeth riff to country, which is now a crappy form of rock.

[Daeda]

I dont like it.. gimme Blues or Jazz if you want a similar genre..
Oh and Gaia Knopfler is Rock..

[Hrod89]

I dont like it.. gimme Blues or Jazz if you want a similar genre..
Oh and Gaia Knopfler is Rock..

Yes he is. Dire Straights and whatever side projects that he was associated with are most definitely rock.

[Legion]

Country sucks. Give me metal any day.

Its just... too slow. I love the fast-pacedness of thrash metal, the sound of progressive metal, and the awesomeness of pure fuckin headbangin heavy metal.

Dream Theater, Metallica, MegaDeth, Iron Maiden > You.

[earini]

I like that song Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson, but that's all. Bluegrass isn't half bad either, but I don't know any bluegrass artists. Otherwise country is just boring. Also, the southern drawls get on my nerves if I listen to it for too long. The fiddles too.

[Blaze]

Why don't people like country? I think you are asking the wrong question. Why do people like counry? Answer to that is taste.
Then again taste on itself is based upon how you were raised, state of mind, age and the people who you have around you. So there is nothing weird about beeing a fan of country or not.

But in general people don't like country because its not a popular stream of music. And in general people have the tendency to join the masses.

As for my own opinion, I myself am a dj and have to conform with a lot of styles of music, everything from rock to top 40 to hard trance. But I can honestly say I have never played country in my life. Why? bacause it hasnt got that same buildup that makes songs popular these days. A while back house was really hot: im reffering to bob sinclair and such. But nowadays electro is making its stride: Pakito - Living on Video, Fedde le Grand - Put your Hands Up for Detroit. And so onbut what all these songs have in comon are the basic components: A steady 4 - beat rhytm a 16 beat transfer, a buildup, popular vocals, and a buildoff. Even R&B music has this, country on the other hand might have that 4 beat rhytm but it most certainly hasnt got that 16 beat transfer and a buildup and buildoff isnt present either, and probably most important it often isnt made with help off a computer which means that the 4 beat rhytm isnt a steady one.

Im not saying that all these factors make a song a good song. No it has to be good as in catchy but these factors define if a song is mainstream or not. And when it is mainstream it has more chance to become popular, and lets just face it country isnt mainstream no matter how you turn it.

Other than that country has a rather geeky image with its line dancing and its redneck vibe.

[Twilus]

Country sucks. Give me metal any day.

Its just... too slow. I love the fast-pacedness of thrash metal, the sound of progressive metal, and the awesomeness of pure fuckin headbangin heavy metal.

Dream Theater, Metallica, MegaDeth, Iron Maiden > You.

Dream Theater, Metallica, MegaDeth, Iron Maiden = Beowulf

[Ash]

@Blaze: You're a DJ? In a nightclub? Who's gonna get up and dance to country except over-50 wannabe-cowboys or people who want lulling to sleep because they live in the middle of nowhere (and let's be fair - most of these are over 50)?


Music is wholly a personal thing. There is no right or wrong to it. But people of our age tend not to like country as it's boring, dull and all sounds the same. I'd rather listen to something with a faster paced riff, or some lovely vocals. Essentially, I look for something that stirs the imagination, the blood or the soul, not the baby's slumber.

Ergo I kick country in the head and listen to alternative metal