[cuban leaf]

I became a country music fan when I started actually listening to the lyrics in music. The best stuff is in country. Bob Dylon can’t even compete.

[nhwingut]

I became a country music fan when I started actually listening to the lyrics in music. The best stuff is in country. Bob Dylon can’t even compete.

Agreed. It has gone more pop, but this has allowed it to reach a more mass mainstream audience - which has to influence the youth, as the lyrics are generally patriotic, conservative, and traditional in nature. I think this is a good thing - vs the crap coming out of the hip hop stations with Jayz and Beyonce. I have teenage daughters and they love country music.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Don't go dissin' Dylan. Amazing songwriter who has had numerous phases of his career. Can't sing but one of the two best songwriters ever IMHO. 99% of the stuff on the radio and the "charts" is pure crap. The songwriting is crap. The music is crap. The performance is crap. Nothing about it is honest. For genre's alt-country has the best songwriting out there today. But you won't hear any of it on the radio.