re: #336 HappyWarrior

Yeah my Dad’s a big alt-country fan. Huge, huge Townes Van Zandt fan. But yeah the commercial country establishment of cheesy patriotism just bothers me. I mean I obviously love my country but those songs are just so tacky.

The stuff that’s popular with the youngs nowadays is more about trucks and beer and girls than patriotism (with exceptions - a guy named Brantley Gilbert is making a career of songs about badass soldiers in addition to the beer/trucks/girls content).

Just like ‘bro-country’ took the production values of rock, they also took the time-honored content template for rock, specifically the 80s metal subject matter.