Do liberals and progressives like rock, country or rap music?

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50. I subscribe to Sturgeon's Law.

90% of everything is crap. that's the nature of both creativity and a mercantile system.

Most of what I listen to falls under the broad category of "Rock" (specifically, I tend to listen to Electronic Body Music, Future-pop and Synth-pop, with sprinklings of Industrial, Punk, post-punk, folk-punk, modern classical* and occasional rap-fusion.) I generally don't like country nor bluegrass, but there's a specific chord that is common in those genres that grates in my ear. (Diminished minor fifths. They just skeeve me out.) Also, I truly cannot bear the sound of a pedal steel. Just thinking about it makes me twitch.

Lyrically, I find rap fascinating -- there's excellent poetry to be found in the genre. Free styling can be utterly astounding when the artist gets in the flow and starts bending the language. Not so fond of the culture of misogyny.

My mother is a country fan, so I hear rather more than I'd prefer. I often wonder how much of the CW scene is manufactured to fit within a specific ideology because it feels remarkably consistent in its nostalgia and topical boundaries. I wonder if that's the product of its highly locational nature (since Nashville is still very central to CW, while the various genres of Rock have gone totally distributive) or due to market forces within the production structure (since CW has not yet gone as far into independent production as rock.) Again, not so fond of the internal misogynistic culture within CW.

I'm done with radio. And with top 40 anything. Commercial pop of all sorts has eaten itself and is now on the fourth or fifth cannibalization of itself. The interesting work is coming out of the independents and the sub-genre communities.

* modern classical -- probably written in the last 10-15 years, often written for film scores or game scores or for television; rarely if ever played in any other venue; never appears on radio. I am officially bored with Baroque, Chamber and Romantic era classical.