Country Music in 2021: "I think that your fans are a reflection of you and what you’re about."

why fuck that guy?

Wallen? Musically and otherwise, he seems simultaneously slack and overactive: throwing all those cliches at us, running around partying nonstop, brain trying to catch up, sometimes. I do give him credit for *not* doubling down, tripling down vs. the "woke mob"--for at least *seeming* painfully embarrassed by his current status as a best-selling martyr-pariah, saying he's scheduled meetings w Nashville NAACP etc. to explain to him why he did the wrong thing---I kinda remotely feel for his excrutiation---except, at several have pointed out, he's already had several second chances. But, but okay, I withdraw "fuck that guy," for now.

(btw, Maren Morris was already targeted by many of the most vocal "anti-woke" Wallen defender-types, for criticizing the CMA Awards ceremony's mask-haplessness. Fuck allll of that kind of freedumb-fried kneejerkery-at-best. So "anti" the kind of country stereotyping so righteously enacted and then some, as the Trump Train rolls on, though it certainly didn't start w him)

I should say that I have not yet made myself listen to all of Wallen's double album---if it turns out to have some keepers, I'll admit it; I try not to blame the song for the singer.

It's good but I understand refusing a listen.

oh sorry dow I thought you meant luke combs

is there a translation of the poll options available

It's good but I understand refusing a listen. Your saying that it's good encourages me to listen more, thx.

a combination of the "good" and "gleefully moronic," let me insist

I appreciate Maren Morris for the stand she is taking but not enough to listen to her music, which I have never liked

I kind of like Rhiannon Giddens

anyway most modern country music is aural white supremacy

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Lol whoops character limit got me

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it sure is

none of the other options are very satisfying as far as i can make sense of them. in different contexts and genres one or another might apply more often. but i don't understand nashville at all it's such a weird mix of proudly toxic conservatism and semi-apologetic liberal triangulation, sometimes coming from the exact same artist. often hard to tell which part of the audience is being pandered to with which gestures. in any case as it's still so white artists and fans will need to be less timid than this if really want to stop the toxicity

great article http://www.vulture.com/article/essay-country-music-race-reckoning-one-year-later.html

Today, there are lots of people who, when asked about the current state of country music, will say that the industry is making “progress.” They forget that the story has already been written, that the script has a predetermined victor in its white male hero, that the illusion of anything contrary is only meant to keep things interesting — and only temporarily.

In the case of the genre’s biggest artist — a man who became more successful after a drunken, hateful rage — they can also put on a good face and express their disgust. Then, just a few months later, they can act as if it never happened.