The 6 Pop Country Archetypes (2014 Edition)
Have you ever wondered who actually listens to those awful songs they play on pop country radio? Here are the six primary Archetypes, or as Music Row refers to them, the “target demographics” that make up the audience of the pop country world.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a revised version of the original 6 Pop Country Archetypes published in 2011. The new version takes into consideration country music’s changing demographics. Basically, pop country has become even more of a bastion for sexism and troglodytes.
The Objectified Pop Country Girl
“Oh my God so like Luke Bryan and the boys from Florida Georgia Line are like so totally the hottest thing ever! lol.”
She thinks being condescended by country’s hot young Bro-Country stars is sexy. She used to like female country artists like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, but now she is mostly obsessed with male singers, and bases who her favorite acts are at any given time strictly off of who is the hottest. Shirt tied in the front, daisy dukes, boots, bronzer, blonde or heavily-highlighted hair under a cheap Panama Jack straw cowboy hat, she’s an automaton of patriarchal rule wanting to present herself as the perfect country girl to be talked down to just like the ones portrayed in Bro-Country songs. Technologically inept and “so totally going” to every mainstream country concert that comes through town, she is the economic catalyst still keeping corporate country alive by buying deluxe edition CD’s and $350.00 front row tickets on the secondary market. She lives to put her hands in the air and scream when the band tells her to. She won’t dance with you at the honky tonk, but as soon as the DJ starts playing hip-hop, she’s out with her seven friends in the center of the dance floor, twerking and taking selfies. Her face is buried in her phone.
The Wallet Chain Douchewad
Tight spandex-blended T-shirt, designer jeans, backwards baseball cap, and a Medusa of wallet chains clanking from his waist, he’s the bullseye of Music Row’s target demographic. Those rips in his jeans didn’t come from running barbed wire, but a 70-year-old Laotian woman working at an Armani factory making .36 cents an hour. On UFC stats and Florida Georgia Line lyrics, he’s a expert. He shaves his testicles so his panty-cut underwear won’t chafe, and he treats women like objects. He likes to listen to laundry list country songs about dirt roads and pickup trucks, but his idea of “roughing it” is not dousing himself in Axe body spray before hitting his suburb’s corporate country bar. Don’t mess with him or his frat buddies or they’ll call you a fag right before vomiting in the bushes. He wants to show you his tribal tattoos.
The Hick-Hopper
Morbidly obese, woefully unemployed, and draped in whatever his local Wal-Mart stocks in XXXL, he thinks he’s a gangster, but instead he’s just an overweight loser land locked in a small town in America’s breadbasket. If you don’t like Big Smo or Bubba Sparxxx, you’re clearly a dumb, city-dwelling Yankee liberal who drives a Prius and doesn’t get what it’s like down in the South. He got a title loan on his 1994 Grand Am so he could get a tattoo of an alien smoking a joint on his neck. He would move to a bigger city, but he doesn’t have the gas money to even make it to the county seat, and besides, the real gangsters would kick his ass within five minutes. He likes to snort Dr. Scholls foot powder and pretend it’s cocaine because he can’t afford meth. He knows a guy in LA that he sent his demo to, and once he hits it big, he’s getting the hell out of this town. He knocked up some girl that works at Dairy Queen just so he could bitch to his friends about his “baby mama drama.” His problems are everyone else’s fault.
The Red-Blooded ‘Merican
He can’t wait for Armageddon to come so he can start mowing down Muslims unilaterally with his stockpile of guns and ammunition hoarded before the Obama Administration makes all guns illegal and enacts Sharia Law. You’re damn right he likes Toby Keith, and only REAL country like Justin Moore and Jason Aldean. Any opinion that is in opposition to his will be spun into an insult to American troops in combat. He swears he knew the Dixie Chicks were commies way before everyone else did, but he had the plump one sign his Stetson in Sharpie in 2001 (he keeps it hidden in the bottom shelf of his gun safe). He’ll shoot at you if any portion of your tire touches his property line when you’re making a U-turn out on the highway, and if you’re one of them towel-heads, he’ll shoot to kill. He thinks Garth-era printed button up collared shirts are still hip.
The Adult Contemporary Divorcee
Three grown kids, thrice divorced, she’ll elbow a legion of glitter-faced pop country girls out of her way to get eye level with Luke Bryan’s crotch as he does “The Move” on the edge of the concert runway, hoping he waxes out yet again and her ample bosom pads his gorgeous fall. Fueled by boxed wine and Lean Cuisine, the older men of mainstream country such as Tim McGraw and Keith Urban make up the cast of her sultry romance novel-style fantasies that she lives out during elongated bubble baths and bunkerings in her queen-sized bed with bon bons and ice cream pints. Celebrity gossip that surrounds her favorite country stars fuels her obsession, especially stories of heartfelt Cancer deeds and kindness towards animals, reinforcing her misguided view that these artists are altruistic heroes as opposed to plastic personas making calculated publicity stunts. She obsessively posts pictures of her cats/dogs on social media and lives in a mess of animal hair.
The Windshield Cowboy
Always sporting a brand spanking new F-250 truck or bigger, he needs this heavy equipment as a middle management quality control paper pusher in a cubicle farm located in white flight Suburbia. He listens to songs about dirt roads, but’ll be damned if he takes his baby off the blacktop and gets a brush scratch in the paint. Similar politics and mindset to The Red Blooded ‘Merican, but instead of spending his weekends target practicing, he’s towing his bass boat, ATV’s, jet skis, or other recreational vehicles to the lake. Similar to the The Wallet Chain Douchewad, his material objects mean everything to him. He believes owning a truck is a validation of manhood, and whoever is in that rice burner in front of him is ignorant and weak and better get the hell out of his way. He’d like you to think he owns a ranch, but a rancher’s wage wouldn’t even pay his truck’s interest. No, he cannot use his truck to help you move next weekend, he has to wash his truck. He likes songs about trucks.
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Turnabout is fair play, so a revised version of The 6 “Other” Country Archetypes is on the way.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:03 am
Throw in the chain-smoking welfare leach who panhandles the neighborhood for cigarette money, and sells used Nike shoes door-to-door like that’s a normal thing to do, and you’ve pretty much pegged about 87% of the small town I live in.
Eerily accurate.
November 12, 2014 @ 11:11 am
and sells used Nike shoes door-to-door like that”™s a normal thing to do,,
Now THAT is funny to contemplate. Somebody should put something like that in a movie or TV show.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:20 am
The Windshield Cowboy is hilarious. I know several suburbanites who fit the description (though some of them are Democrats). Truck yeah.
You left out one big category – the girls who are still buying Taylor Swift songs. She wears girly dresses and likes to make the hand heart sign. She tries to act sweet and innocent, but she is high maintenance and narcissistic, thanks to overprotective fawning parents who cater to her every whim. She sulks when she doesn’t get her way and cries when the popular boy doesn’t fall for her. She goes to church with mommy and daddy pretending to worship God, while she worships T-Swift instead. Trigger did you leave her off the list because she’s graduated from pop country and entered the big city world of pure pop?
November 12, 2014 @ 10:32 am
You forgot to bring the funny.
November 12, 2014 @ 12:29 pm
There was a very similar archetype to this in the first edition of this from 2011 called the “Glitter-Faced Pop Country Girl,” ( https://savingcountrymusic.com/the-6-pop-country-archetypes ) but the thing is, Taylor Swift is not longer country, and I just don’t see these girls being part of the country demo anymore. They’re listening to pop now. The young girls that are still into country are these subservient types that worship Luke Bryan. I don’t see many soccer mom’s either. Most of the women with any sort of taste are much more into pop music now, with the luddites gravitating toward country.
November 12, 2014 @ 3:36 pm
I agree. There are basically two main types of female Taylor Swift fans.
First, you’ve got those who became Taylor Swift fans as adolescents and have morphed into the Objectified Pop Country Girl mentioned above as they reached young womanhood.
Second, you’ve got the fans who began listening to Taylor as young children who have no further allegiance to “country” music as their tastes are still developing and will follow her to pop radio.
November 12, 2014 @ 4:29 pm
From what I have read in Taylor Swift video comments, there is a significant segment of her early fans who never liked pop to begin with and are now disillusioned with bro-country. It might be a good idea for SCM to reach out to those fans.
November 12, 2014 @ 7:14 pm
I almost added that there’s a sub-type of the first group, that being those who came of age listening to Swift but have enough self-respect to not fall into the “Objectified” trap. I agree that some of these folks may currently be adrift and searching for a form of music that fits their adult taste.
November 12, 2014 @ 11:17 pm
Eric, do you think the girls in the segment you described would be potential fans of Kacey Musgraves? Or do you think they are girls from conservative families who would not go for her progressivism? Do you think these girls are more likely to listen to Kacey’s “Follow Your Arrow” or Carrie’s “Something In The Water”?
November 13, 2014 @ 1:25 pm
I’m (sort of) one of these. I listened to Taylor Swift back when she was new on MySpace and loved her songs and the fact that she was my age and relatable. Her first album was fairly country, and definitely not any less so than anything else out at the time.
I grew up on country music though, and didn’t follow Taylor Swift’s music as she drifted and then bolted to pop. There is definitely that chance that some who liked TSwift’s early music didn’t grew up with country and are looking for something else.
November 12, 2014 @ 4:45 pm
You forgot to add the illiterate ones Trigger. Lord knows I argue with a lot of them.
November 13, 2014 @ 1:26 am
From my impression, it does not appear that most Taylor Swift fans are politically inclined at all. I think most of them would love both “Follow Your Arrow” and “Something in the Water”.
November 16, 2014 @ 12:12 am
Eric, I think I know which type of fans you are describing. They’re probably the very early fans of Taylor, the girls whose Myspace messages she answered in 2006-2007. The girls who went to church, hung out with their moms, and sang along to songs like “Teardrops On My Guitar” and “Fifteen”. I’d guess that they are culturally conservative. They probably identify as the sweet and innocent girls. A vanishing breed, especially here in culturally liberal California …
A bigger question for those kinds of girls is how do they evolve and live their lives as they grow up. There is a lot of pressure on these girls to change who they are to fit in as they pass the age of 18. Taylor dealt with this in a way that did not demean herself to the extent that other young celebrities had, but still made significant concessions to big city cultural elites.
November 16, 2014 @ 4:44 am
I would say that the biggest question is about the extent to which one’s social life can be decoupled from musical consumption habits. For example, I do not at all fit the stereotype of a country music fan, and nobody that I know on a close basis is a fan of the genre. Nonetheless, music for me is an intensely private experience, and only my own tastes matter to me when I am listening alone.
I would hope that being “pressured” to change one’s musical tastes simply to fit in would cause one to deepen their tastes, simply out of defiance and pride if nothing else.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:22 am
2 guns up!
November 12, 2014 @ 10:25 am
Trigger, I’m gonna say this since you have often complained when other folks have discussed politics here. There is a clear political undercurrent in this article. It associates negative stereotypes with a political orientation. I take it that you’re not happy about the outcome of last week’s elections. But Trigger don’t you know the lefties want to take away your guns?
November 12, 2014 @ 11:22 am
I do not think he is necessarily making a political statement. I happen to be rather conservative, but that doesn’t mean that I cannot laugh at the ridiculous aspects of right-wing culture. And, besides, these are archetypes, so they are meant to be exaggerations and stereotyped.
November 12, 2014 @ 12:35 pm
People have been trying to peg me as a conservative or a liberal of years. The simple fact is I have no political affiliation, I look at politics as a sport, and I have no feelings whatsoever about the last election aside from hoping the next class millionaires in Congress actually get something done. The reason this article may have some political undertones is because politics very much plays into Music Row’s demographic pandering to conservatives. If you read the “Other Country Archetypes article linked at the bottom (that I’m working on a new revision of as well), I bash on NPR-listening Prius-driving liberals.
The point here is to laugh a little bit, but to also point out how humans get pigeonholed by corporations to become easier targets for marketing. The more people that act and look the same, the more money can be made off of them.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:31 am
That was damn good. Was sorry when it was over. Looking forward to the other revised archetype list.
Any opinion that is in opposition to his will be spun into an insult to American troops in combat.
I wonder if that knucklehead on the FGL album review thread was the inspiration for that line. If so, bless his heart.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:43 am
not to toot my oen horn but I was the won that invented the fraze ‘divorcee cuntry’ kwite a wyle ago. Divorcee country bein a subb genre of fabulus n 40 country n all. wood say sum of my faverite groops like sugarland litle bigtown tim mcgraw ar divorcee/fab n 40. may be garth to? may be the bigest genre in country music if u thank about it. aww well hell I dont no. Role tide
November 12, 2014 @ 3:35 pm
What archetype are you Lil Dale?
November 12, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
The one that forgot to pick up a schoolbook as a kid and who is now torturing us with his butchering of the English language.
November 12, 2014 @ 5:44 pm
a mix betwen red bllodded american/biker ex con.
November 13, 2014 @ 6:33 am
Awesome!
November 14, 2014 @ 12:18 am
WTF …….?????
November 12, 2014 @ 10:48 am
Scary (but funny) article. The only thing missing is including an example of each group’s typical Facebook post.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:56 am
Interesting that the image of the Objectified Pop Country girl is basically Daisy Duke and that the same a-holes who extole the virtues of the Dukes of Hazzard as family values entertainment but wouldn’t let thier daughters dress like Daisy Duke.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:58 am
This is hysterical and, I suspect, pretty much on the money.
In the spirit of net neutrality and fairness, you need to do a similar assessment of us authentic country music followers.
November 12, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
Yes, the original version of this included a corresponding one about “Other” country archetypes. Hopefully I will have a revised version of it up soon.
November 12, 2014 @ 11:05 am
I want your man against machine review
November 12, 2014 @ 12:38 pm
https://savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-garth-brooks-man-against-machine
November 12, 2014 @ 11:45 am
The Red Blooded ‘Merican is almost always a volunteer firefighter with a flashing blue light on the dash of his F-150. He’ll put the lives of everyone else in jeopardy, running red lights and stops signs, to speed to the scene of a cat in a tree or a fender bender in a Wal-Mart parking lot. In extreme cases, he is a firebug and wants to be the hero that he couldn’t be when he was the fat kid on the end of the bench in high school football. His truck has a lifetime supply of Armor All wipes in the glovebox, and he wipes down every vinyl surface upon entering and exiting the vehicle.
November 12, 2014 @ 12:19 pm
I’m proud to say I don’t fit any of these categories. 😀 Good stuff, Trig!
November 12, 2014 @ 1:23 pm
Not so fast, Gena. There’s another list to come. 😉
November 12, 2014 @ 1:55 pm
The Carpetbagger
Three years ago his favorite band was LMFAO, but god dang if this new country music doesn’t make you want to shake your ass and commit only borderline sexual assault on the dance floor. It doesn’t count if you have your clothes on, right? The Carpetbagger came from a “small town” and “liked Garth Brooks” so the music is a “natural fit.” The Carpetbagger attributes any criticism of current country music to Haters who don’t understand – and hey what’s the big deal with electronic drum beats anyway? Even revered classic country artists like Jason Aldean used them. Carpetbaggers believe music is best listened to in the Audi-that-Daddy-leased or in Beats by Dre, in either instance the bass should be turnt.
November 12, 2014 @ 3:09 pm
Haha I’m glad you did this.I have the first two in my favorites and couldn’t count how many times I have revisited them.
Still hoping for a Archetypes of Red Dirt/Texas Country list..Make it happen!!
November 12, 2014 @ 3:41 pm
said it before, i’ll say it again…i love that american flag shirt. it’s like a bad xmas sweater.
i am also a sucker for deluxe edition albums. unfortunately i haven’t been able to fit into a pair of daisey dukes since i got out of the army. also, apparently…dudes aren’t suppose to wear them. whatev’s….
November 12, 2014 @ 3:50 pm
It is pretty bad ass. And don’t let anybody tell you you can’t wear daisy dukes. You gotta follow your arrow, hoss.
November 12, 2014 @ 4:11 pm
You know its bad (and the truth) when someone you know is 5 out of those 6 people. And I’m only talking about one person. My splitting headache just got worse…
November 12, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
Of all of these categories, the “Adult Contemporary Divorcees” seem to have the best musical taste. It sure would be nice if songs like this became popular again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgjkoFSvb90
November 12, 2014 @ 4:53 pm
Nothing screams country like a polo shirt and a cowboy hat.
All my cowboy heros wore tucked in polo shirts. True story.
November 12, 2014 @ 5:44 pm
Hmmm, well I’m married, my son is only 5, and I WISH my “bosom” was big enough to cushion a fall, so I guess I don’t technically fit into that divorcee category. However, I will cut a bitch and then elbow her in her glitter eyed face to get eye level with any part of Billy Currington, and I make no apologies for feeling that way. He is one seriously sexy man.
November 12, 2014 @ 6:12 pm
Nice! 😀
November 12, 2014 @ 7:33 pm
I fall into the Hipster category, as someone called me a damn hipster. I don’t wear glasses or look like a typical nerd. I am a music elitist though. If anything, I’m a country ass metalhead.
November 12, 2014 @ 7:58 pm
I have had a lot of highs and lows in my life but..:
“He likes to snort Dr. Scholls foot powder and pretend it”™s cocaine because he can”™t afford meth.”
.. absolutely has to be rock bottom.
November 12, 2014 @ 9:04 pm
I have said for a long time that the worst thing about country music is the fans.
November 12, 2014 @ 9:52 pm
I’ve been a lurker of this website for a very long time, but this article is the first that I feel the need to comment. I have never been offended by an article on this site except this one – Millions of people who listen to modern country DO NOT fit these archetypes/stereotypes, I know that I sure as hell don’t. I’m a young man with a family that originated from Alabama, but I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I’m just your average joe who loves the country, and neo-traditional country music as well as modern country music. I know tons of people who listen to modern so-called “pop” country that do not fit these archetypes/stereotypes either. My 72 year old grandfather listens to modern country and says its “way better” than older country music. Tons of people who like traditional and neo-traditional artists also enjoy modern country.
November 12, 2014 @ 10:42 pm
Summer Jam,
Thanks for reading, and I sincerely apologize if you were offended, but you’re supposed to be offended if you ARE included here, not if you are NOT. Please don’t let this seem as I wanted to represent every modern country music fan by any stretch. It’s more about the ones who allow others to define who they are. This is an illustration rooted in both truth and humor.
November 13, 2014 @ 6:38 am
Trigger, I’d say you’ve beaten the game if you’re offending those you have stereotyped AND those you haven’t. The internet is a truly marvelous place.
November 13, 2014 @ 11:18 am
While I wasn’t offended and found it somewhat funny, I’d rather see articles about “saving country music” rather than ones bashing other people. It seems there have been more articles attacking bro country than supporting true country music lately and the site is starting to come across as bitter rather than the refreshing site I enjoyed when I first ran across it thanks to Matt Woods.
November 13, 2014 @ 1:15 pm
You can say that all you want, but the numbers tell a different story. As I’ve said many times, Saving Country Music continues to be committed to positive music coverage, and has run more positive stories, more features, and more album reviews in it’s 7 year history in 2014 than ever before. The problem is those stories are being read less and less every single day, while the more negative stories are going viral and ultra viral, painting the site with a negative brush. It saddens me to no end that people no longer want to read about cool bands in the numbers they used to, and that even worse, somehow I become the one to blame even though I’ve redoubled my efforts towards this type of coverage.
At the same time, objective and critical coverage of mainstream music is something that remains necessary, and vital to the “Saving Country Music” model. Since the beginning, this site has been an industry watchdog and a critical voice, and remains steadfast to that commitment, and fulfilling that necessary role as well.
November 17, 2014 @ 10:32 am
I don’t think the blog posts lean heavily toward the downside rants; rather, I think they represent a pretty even mixture of rants, positive reviews, and current events items.
It is true that the rants tend to get more attention. I think that is probably because a lot of readers here are like me. As someone else stated, I believe it was early in this comment section but may have been elsewhere, what I choose to listen to is personal, and I don’t need the validation of a positive review to make me feel better about what I like. So unless it’s a review of an artist that I’m not aware of I tend to give the reviews of non-mainstream material a passing glance, at best.
I mainly come here for two things; one, to follow trends in the music world, and two, to read a humorous take on some of those trends.
November 15, 2014 @ 6:57 am
Hey “Summer Jam” he also did a one for the music most of us on this site listen to which is even funnier.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/the-6-other-country-music-archetypes
It’s called having a sense of humor.Find one
(“npr elitist”..I die every time!)
November 13, 2014 @ 1:57 pm
My favorites are the Windshield Cowboy, and the Hick Hopper.
November 14, 2014 @ 10:09 am
Solid chuckle from this article…. took up rapping at one point to try and get at this… I think the only demographic I missed that you hit was the divorce. http://youtu.be/U1C2kFvjCy4
November 15, 2014 @ 3:10 pm
Just a spiteful nasty little attack posing as satire. I won’t be returning. And no I don’t fit into any one of those groups, but you’re obviously in lockstep with all the “progressive” contempt for anyone not in your cool group. I thought you were better than that, but that crap belongs at MSNBC or Salon. See you later as in never.
November 15, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
Looks like someone is butthurt and doesn’t have a sense of humor. Well, that’s one less tightwad on this site. Good riddance…
November 15, 2014 @ 9:22 pm
Rj,
I am sorry if you were offended by this post. However, if you think either this illustration, or this site takes a “progressive” stance or any political stance on any issue then you couldn’t be more mistaken. If you read the “Other Country Archetypes” article linked at the bottom of this one, you will see that “progressive” fans are also put in the crosshairs.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/the-6-pop-country-archetypes-2014-edition
February 1, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
Bye Felicia!!!
April 6, 2015 @ 4:58 am
RJ is probably blasting Luke Bryan or FGL in her Subaru Outback as she is dropping her daughter off at cheerleading and her son at soccer practice.
November 16, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
Trigger, I just read your article on the 6 “Other” country archetypes. It was funny and insightful, but I think you missed some archetypes, for example:
The Mountain Man: He lives in a two bedroom cabin built in 1920 on a forty acre plot at the end of a rough dirt road. His muddy 1992 Jeep Wrangler looks like it has never been washed. The holes in his jeans are not a fashion statement, but the inevitable consequence of having worn the same two pairs of jeans for the last five years. A quiet man, he isn’t seen out and about in town very often. He’s convinced that living off the grid will keep him safe if cyber terrorists, or China for that matter, were to attack the grid.
He believes that big city types are ruining our country, so he wants nothing to do with cities. He would say that we haven’t had a Republican President since Reagan (since Bush, McCain and Romney must be closet Democrats planted by a leftist conspiracy). Sometimes he would talk with his neighbor Charlie, a member of a local militia movement. He sympathizes with Charlie’s sentiments but did not get involved in the movement, since he really just wants to be left alone.
Beneath the gruff persona is a good natured fellow who is largely content living a quiet life out in the countryside. He spends much of his time chopping wood and clearing brush on his land, or just sitting outside on the porch watching the deer walk by. His CD collection consists of old favorites such as “Mountain Music” and “A Country Boy Can Survive”, along with even older songs that haven’t been played on country radio since the turn of the century. He lost his wife to breast cancer ten years ago, and sometimes he still listens to her collection of Loretta Lynn cassette tapes on days when he’s feeling down. Needless to say, he gave up on country radio 20 years ago.
November 17, 2014 @ 11:12 am
“He would say that we haven”™t had a Republican President since Reagan (since Bush, McCain and Romney must be closet Democrats planted by a leftist conspiracy).”
You are aware that neither McCain nor Romney have ever been President, correct?
November 16, 2014 @ 9:56 pm
Here’s another archetype for the “Other” category:
The Christian: She prays every evening before supper. She signs off letters and emails to her girlfriends with “God Bless”. Raised in a comfortable suburban upbringing in the Midwest, she now attends an evangelical megachurch in sunny Orange County, California. Social issues are at the top of her mind. She worries, “there are all these bad things happening, like gays having kids, what are we gonna do?”
She listened to some pop music in her youth, but when she left the workforce to become a full time mother and wife in her late 20s she started listening to country again, because she was convinced that the heartland is “where the values are”. Songs like “Three Wooden Crosses” and “Jesus Take The Wheel” spoke to her heart. She’s not immune to impure thoughts though – she had a secret crush on Josh Turner and thought his low voice on “Long Black Train” was sexy as hell.
In her middle age, she didn’t want her 12 year old daughter to watch TV or listen to popular music, but made an exception for Nashville’s “family friendly” entertainment. She really, really wants to believe that Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are wonderful role models sent down by God to save our daughters from the filth of modern popular culture. In fact she was so blown away by Taylor’s interview on “60 Minutes” a few years ago that she went to Target to buy her album for her young daughter.
Finally last year she started paying attention to the lyrics of Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean and realized that the words of “country” songs she had been listening to every day for the past couple of years were not promoting traditional values after all. Her trust in the goodness of the country genre shattered, she reluctantly changes the station and retreats to the safety of contemporary Christian music. She prays for the “country” artists and the multitudes in middle America who lost their souls …
November 16, 2014 @ 10:23 pm
Well, I definitely prefer the “Mountain Man” archetype. At least he (or she) minds his or her own business, as opposed to the authoritarian “Christian” archetype.
May 5, 2015 @ 4:49 pm
I would rather have the Christian archetype in my business than the NPR type who wants to limit the size of sodas.
And modern culture is full of filth.
However, the Josh Turner part is awesome.
November 17, 2014 @ 7:57 pm
Love this comment! Except you left out one part… she already had given up on Carrie Underwood when she found out Carrie supported marriage equality.
April 5, 2015 @ 6:42 pm
Make a Classic Country Lover/Metalhead and that would be me.
I absolutely hate pop country and have to control myself when in the car with my mom. I’m 13 and love classics like Hank and Don. I am also an avid Metalhead. Christian, death, nu, it’s all good stuff. My friends will never understand my hate for pop or rap (except Christian rap, Lecrae always gets my head bobbing). I also find myself faithfully listening to LA Llyods Rock 30 Countdown every Sunday. And though I hate pop country, I have a strange attraction to the music of Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, and Zac Brown. I believe that all it will take to make Southern Rock popular again is a band that lives true to the standards set by Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Marshall Tucker Band. I also play guitar and hope to be in a Christian Rap Metal band one day.
That’s my archetype
May 5, 2015 @ 4:52 pm
Holy crap, that is a mixture!
May 31, 2015 @ 8:28 am
Proud Windshield cowboy telling you Pop-country is SHIT.
LOL honestly tho, I do get pretty pissed when people touch my truck. I love it more than life itself.
April 30, 2017 @ 5:45 pm
I hate that shit they play on the radio. My antenna isn’t even hooked up in my truck I just use Pandora and YouTube with bluetooth. It’s funny when yuppies tell me they love country music and I ask who is your favorite they tell me Luke Bryan or Jason Aldean so I’m like oh so you like pop music with a cowboy hat. They don’t like Hank Sr or Jason Boland or Waylon Jennings apparently they just don’t sound like real country music (pop country). We can’t hear Hank 3 on the radio but yet we gotta act like Kid Rock is Hank Jr.’s son. If you go out to a tank to go fishing listening to Florida Georgia Line just throw your fishing pole in the water and leave the fish don’t want you there.