Not a Country Bumpkin

My favorite music comes from the country-western genre. I grew up listening to it, which obviously influences my tastes, but I think that even without that I still would find merit in the music. There’s fun, rowdy music and there’s melancholy music in it too. There are songs about love and loss and kids and all the ups and downs of life. Yes, there are those weepy, yodeling songs that get the genre its bad rap, but the people involved in the genre recognize that – there’s even a song about how good things happen if you play a country song backward! That’s not all it is though, country is just about life in general. I try to keep an open mind about music, and many of the other genres intersect with country, but I really dislike rap music. The staccato beat of the music just sets my nerves on edge.