[Responsibility2nd]

Am I the only one who can watch a show like the Country Music Awards and wonder what the HELL I'm looking at?

Cause it sure ain't County Music.

[Rightly Biased]

Garth Brooks Killed it with his Rocklike concerts in the 90s...

IMHO

[DManA]

It’s bubblegum pop in blue genes with an accent.

[martin_fierro]

“Acht Breaky Heart.” Now THAT’S music!

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[Fido969]

There appears to be not even the slightest attempt to “say” anything other than to repeat the tired, overused mantra of redneck party boy in his truck, partying in said truck, hoping to get lucky in the cab of said truck, and his greatest possible achievement in life is to continue to be physically and emotionally attached to the aforementioned truck as all things in life should and must take place in his, you guessed it...truck.

I didn’t mind the first two or three hundred versions of these gems but I think we can all agree by now that everything’s been said about a redneck and his truck, that can possibly be said. It is time to move on to the next subject. Any subject, anything at all.

Oh gosh, yes. Please.

[Timber Rattler]

Country Music died a long time ago when Nashville producers started packaging canned music around pretty faces instead of identifying and marketing real singing talent, like in the old days.

[Free Vulcan]

I still like Austin country, or Red Dirt as I think it is termed now. Nashville is selling artificially colored and flavored, genuine faux imitation naugahyde country.

[uglybiker]

Country music is alive and well. You just won't find it on the FM dial.

I don't know what you call that stuff.

[gdani]

Is country music dead?

This question is about 30 years old (or too late).

[chrisser]

Never liked country much as a youth.

Started to get interested in it about a decade or so ago. Just as I did, it started going down the toilet.

What killed it for me is Taylor Swift. She’s like nails on a chalkboard far as I’m concerned.

[pgkdan]

As a lifelong fan of Country Music...way back when it was Country and Western Music...all I can say is AMEN!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

A lot of what passes for “country music” today sounds to my ears an awful lot like ‘70s rock, particularly the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[5Madman2]

It’s utter crap. All the same tempo with 3-4 word lyric bites, stupid sing song up down up note arrangements and now Rap and Hip Hop are sneaking in.

I would rather listen to cats fornicate.

Anything other than true classic country is Garbage.

Fortunately TX has a pretty good roots type country ingrained-guys like Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Thomas Michael Riley and Cory Morrow.

[US Navy Vet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdvQzptbeo8

[circlecity]

Nowadays it’s just pop rock with a twang.

[dfwgator]

What about Western?

[US Navy Vet]

Remember “County “Music” Television” is OWNED by “Viacom(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_Media_Networks)";. The SAME A$$HOLES who inflict “MTV” on us!

[Colonel_Flagg]

Today’s country music really makes me appreciate my set of CDs from Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

Good stuff.

[Quick Shot]

My opinion is Rascal Flatts destroyed the music. Every new song, every new song is some version that sounds just like them, and I did not like them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Classic country lyrics would have a tough time navigating our current uber-PC culture IMO.

[oldbrowser]

Am I the only one who can watch a show like the Country Music Awards and wonder what the HELL I'm looking at?

Country music has been disintegrating for a generation. We now have imitations of the imitators who were imitating the early imitators.
Last time I listened to a radio station which plays today's country I heard a song with sounded like hip hop.