• qooqie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like pre-9/11 country had heavy influence from folk music. However, post-9/11 country got a lot more influence from current events and current world political climate. A redneck hiphop scene essentially (as hiphop has a long standing history of being vocal on social issues)

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      1 year ago

      Country has always been about the old and the new, (mostly the old, I do acknowledge) it’s more the changing political climate, and the uprising of “snap country”. Nor to mention, country is TECHNICALLY easy to make, so a lot of people and corps with money just go for it these days.

      Small venue concerts and privately owned radio stations aren’t really a thing anymore. Those were the tools of a machine that kills fascists, if you know what I mean.