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Aristus

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30. Yeah, country music.

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 10:34 AM

Apr 2013

When I mention my dislike for country music, the reactions people register are probably equal to what they would be if I pissed on the flag.

They call it "real American music', as if jazz and rock and roll didn't exist.

You have guys wearing cowboy hats who have never sat on a horse in their lives. (George Strait excepted; he's the real thing. still don't like the music.)

They sing about traditional, conservative values like cheatin', drinkin', shootin' & fightin'.

And for a genre that sells itself with a heavy slug of violent masculinity, the male singers all sound like adenoidal eunuchs.

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