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    2 days ago

    ‘Country’ music. There is a specific style of country which is the most prominent, and it is so stupid it’s a parody of itself. It’s what you would make if you wanted to make fun of Americans, but made and listened to in full sincerity. Then there is the rest of it. Johnny Cash is technically classed as country but there’s no way I’d class him as being anything like Garth Brooks. More modernly, Poor Man’s Poison uses country sounds, but doesn’t bemoan the loss of their truck, dog, and wife with the same chord progression that hasn’t changed in decades.