Country Music

I absolutely hate country music, and to be totally honest, it's not because of the music itself. While I find that most country musicians lack any sort of musical talent, most musicians today are completely devoid of musical talent, so that's not it. It's not the lyrics either, because a lot of country songs are about booze and women, two things which I hold very close to my heart.

So what is it about country music that I hate so much? It's the people who like country music, the apologists and the evangelists of this style of music.



These are the people who listen to country music constantly, who proclaim to the heavens that the "artist" must have been writing the song about them, and who for some reason cannot comprehend the fact that someone can't like country music. They will spend hours telling you the reasons that you in fact already like country music, with such nonsensical arguments as "But you love The Eagles, and they're pretty much a country band!" These arguments in fact do not make one want to listen to country music, but rather drives them further away from it, faster than an evangelical Christian drives through West Hollywood at night. These are the people who go to three day country music festivals, spend half of it not listening to the music but rather drinking beer out of the back of a pickup truck and urinating on fences. Who in their right mind would want to associate themselves with this type of behavior? The bottom line is this, if you like country music, that's fine, but don't try and get me to like it too, because my hatred for it is unbridled and my mind will not be changed.