to me country music is just sad music and i don't like it. it actually sounds like suicide music. tell me wat u think. yall saying dat rap music is so much bad because it is killing young children in the world. well wat do you think if there was only country music in the world all the time, wat do you think would happen?

 

Not all country is sad. What have you been listening to?

 

RAP is NOT MUSIC.

 

There was a study done not too long ago that said that country music is related to suicide rates, as in you are more likely to commit suicide if you listen to country than any other genre.

 

You guys haven't heard German "Schlager" music. I don't know why the call it that, maybe because it has some thing to do with "schlagen", punching, someone.

 

Hey government, I want to do an interesting study to give a-holes another pointless factoid to smug unto others. I'll need about $40,000 and some hot pockets!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAM3C3dpIA

 

I disagree with you about Country Music.

Little off topic
This is the worst music video I ever saw.LOL
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8610362188397291938

 

@ Ilion : OUCH !? My brain !

 

Actually, no.

Although country music is one of my least favorite genres, I find the electronic/reprocessed crap that Britney Spears, et al are putting out now MUCH MUCH worse.

Even a lot of rap music has good beats and is socially relevant; What appears to be the most popular music currently is pretty awful.

I understand that every generation embraces a style of music that is different than the last-----but difference is not everything. There should be SOMETHING of value in it. The 'pop' of the past few years is pitifully soul-less.

 

Hey Mac, this is post #11 and you're the only one who thinks country music is the worse.

Hmmm, you might just be wrong among these folks.

 

My favorite music is the huge area commonly called classical. I also enjoy W.C. Handy and the various music gathered together as blues and jazz. I have actually heard a few rock songs I liked. I guess that makes me a bit of an eclecticist.
What is generally called country music today is a mixture of folk, bluegrass, western and a bit of rock. I went crazy for folk during the folk revival that included Joen Baez and the Kingston trio, but my earliest introduction was through "western" music, Gene Autry, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow, T."Texas" Tyler and others. I suppose, to the untrained ear, they all sound alike. So do large groups of composers and performers in any category.

I agree that rap, funk, and many other contemporary forms have little to qualify them as music at all.I am also willing to admit that there may be something there I am missing. Please don't dis any musical category immediately. Some of the all time greats in both serious and popular music were dismissed by critics who disliked the new sound.

 

Country sucks, most 'artists' are losers who cant cut it in the rock world. I prefer elevator music over country.

 

I'd rather listen to country than rap, but then I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than listen to rap, which is what I would consider the worst music ever.

But each to their own I guess, I like power metal which I apreciate wouldn't be to most people's taste.

 

Country music is very popular. Its not like it was back in the 60's 70's or 80's. Alot of the new stuff has more of a rock/country mix to it now. Rap music, is it still considered music or just a bunch of mad people saying rhymes to a beat of a drum

 

Damn you IIion, I don't think I shall ever recover from watching that.....:-o

On the plus side, It's made me think that my songwriting isn't as mediocre as I thought.

 

Yep, i know!

I even dance better than that. LOL

 

I like chiptunes and commodore elevator music. Does that make me weird?

 

To suggest that Rap is not music is extremely unfair. People may not like it (I do not like the majority of it myself), but music does not have to be pleasant-----or even uniformly structured. If it HAD TO BE, than what would you call the atonal efforts of someone like Charles Ives or the torturous excursions of John Cage-----both of whom are considered 'classical composers' of the 20th century...

 

Lily and Charlie on the MTA, what a great combo. Followed up by Back in the Saddle Again, on a Cattle Call in the Sweet By and By.