• Beastlygr@lemmy.world
    45·
    4 months ago

    There are two types of country artists. One will help you hide a body and run from the cops. The other will call you a slur.

  • Patrik@lemm.ee
    42·
    4 months ago

    After 9/11, Country turned from “we are working people” to “My Dad’s an oil tycoon and I love the US”.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      4 months ago

      that was around the same time local radio collapsed and I heart radio and other conglomerates took over. not long after media ownership rules changed. I don’t think it was the artists who changed.

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    23·
    4 months ago

    The girl’s musicians are folk, not country. That’s kind of the main purpose of the distinction.

  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
    7·
    4 months ago

    Johnny Cash not being on the right side of this meme should be criminal.

    Well, you wonder why
    I always dress in black
    Why you never see
    Bright colors on my back
    And why does my appearance
    Seem to have a somber tone?
    Well, there’s a reason for the things
    That I have on

    I wear the black
    For the poor and the beaten down
    Livin’ in the hopeless
    Hungry side of town
    I wear it for the prisoner
    Who has long paid for his crime
    But is there because
    He’s a victim of the times