Psycho Economist

I had the unfortunate opportunity to listen to the "have you forgotten" song while riding across the state while my girlfriend was driving.

I didn't say a word... but every time he got to "hay-ive yew fergott'n," I wanted to shout... "No. I haven't forgotten. That's my point." In a world where one man can kill a thousand at once, how many new enemies should we make before we suddenly, magically become "safe"?

King Rat

These poseurs aren't country, they're Billy Ray Cyrus Pop-n-Twang.

Cash could kick their collective asses with one hand stuck in his f-hole.

Hank Sr. could shame them all with one line.

Patsy could leave them sputtering with a melodic hiccup.

Alison could baffle them with actual honest emotion.

Earle could show them how to truly rock.

Willie has defecated better art than these clowns.

These NeoContry 'artists' have more in common with Eminem than with REAL country music

Buddrow_Wilson

To be honest with you, I don't know. I have the misfortune of currently residing in rural Arkansas. Top 40 crap is fairly easy to avoid. Country is not. I don't really dislike any genre of music, there is no reason country has to be so lame, but it is. I have to blame the industry and assume there are good artists out there not being heard.

Spooky

Country Music is an oxymoron

King Rat

Morons lacking oxygen.

Shake

So what you're saying, is that there is nothing to listen to on your FM band! Dude, I'm sorry.
:notworthy Amen!

I'm sure illiteracy and bigotry would take a nosedive if all the country stations went off the air!

HaysooChreesto!

Abba? Gritty realism and dark soul? Abba?

At any rate, current country music is truly awful. Acts like Shania Twain and Faith Hill get their songs from the same music writers that write songs for Celine Deion and her ilk. They're all interchangeable. Throw in a steel guitar and a few fiddle lines and suddenly bubble gum and chick pop becomes bubble gum and chick country.

I too am a supporter of the current war but the songs mentioned by the OP lowers the IQ of anyone that has the misfortune to hear it... "We'll put a BOOT in yer ASS! It's the American WAAYYY!" It's just so awful.

Schparky

Dang straight... BTW, yesterday's (April 7th) installment of "The Daily Show" (seen on Comedy Central in the US) skewered both "Have You Forgotten?" and "Iraq and I Roll" (host Jon Stewart commented that it sounded like a "commerical for a pickup truck").

mikester

I hate it. I can't stand the music. It all sounds the same, and it all sucks.

KoopaFanatic

While you're right on the second point, I have to take issue with saying that it all sounds the same. See, there are at least four different country songs. There's the twangy stuff that makes me grit my teeth till it hurts (e.g. Dwight Yoakam), there's the stuff that sounds like bad pop but somehow rendered worse by its contact with a country singer (e.g. Shania Twain, Garth Brooks), the older stuff that's respectable because of its age and sometimes gets play on classic rock or oldies stations (e.g. Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline), and jingoistic godbabble (which is really just a more annoying subset of the pop stuff). Four different songs, and much like Japanese pop music or most varieties of techno, they pretend there are more by using different words and instrumentation. They think they have us fooled.

Well, I'm not fooled.