kiarajean:

star-pilot:

supervillainesses:

Yes, country music is awful, but people tend to ignore the factual issues with the genre:

-Promotes rape culture

-Got its start with deeply racist roots

-Glorifies the “all-American girl trope” of blue-eyed, blonde-haired young women

-Historically misogynistic and still is to this day

-No amount of “feminist” Dixie Chick-style musicianship can erase all that

I finally have MORE than one excuse to justify why I hate country music.

this could apply to all genres but living in Kentucky where people think country is the only “wholesome” music and that rap will turn you into a criminal, this should be talked about more. I work at a bank and country is the only music we’re allowed to play because its “family” music. 

Like I think some of this is a little classist, and honestly, like a lot of old labour songs are country… including a bunch of stuff written by POC (not to mention the genre is heavily intertwined with the history of blues and gospel), and so like while most modern corporate country is shit, the genre hasn’t always been that way and this post makes me really uncomfortable

Honestly, I feel like this is another incident of upper class northern white people throwing rural southern working class folks under the bus to conceal their own racist bullshit.