I love country music, I was raised on it. I also love rock and rap and blues and all kinds of other music, but people think country is lame, it makes no sense to me...
199552
i confess..i used to think that country music was boring and whiny but now i am dating someone who loves it and once i stopped and really listened i cant get enough. i live in NY and there is no country station here, hardly any country tours come through here. i find myself traveling now to see the stars i once wouldnt give a second of my time. people just have to be exposed to things in their own time. but props for bringing in some country! \n" shes gone country..."
599405
ROCK is the best. RAP is cRAP.
587443
i like honkey tonk music....im being sarcastic, hehehehe...never really heard of it before
2005
Rap extreamly because thats kind of cooler and more better than rock.For me rock sucks.
464046
I like a little of everything.Some new stuff is just to much about hip hop and rap but the younger generation likes it and so that is fine with me.Doesn't mean I'm going to like listening to everything that comes out or want to listen to it.But I like such a wide range of music that there is room for new and old.
617076
I think a lot of what turns people off is the vocals.  Many people find it annoying to hear people singing in deep southern accents with almost yodeling feel to it.  Also, country music in general has gotten the reputation of being "uncool" by a majority of the population, and nobody likes to be uncool.\n\nI'm not a big fan of country, but I can appreciate some good old Johnny Cash, or even some good instrumental bluegrass.
474199
what hath lynyrd skynyrd wrought? i think that most of what comes out of nashville these days is what would have been called pop music 25 or 30 years ago, crap maybe, but i find the evolution interesting. certainly a lot of  music, no matter what label it's given,has the bottom line of how much cash it's going to bring in, if the person singing it has that attitude or not, and that always waters the music down to it's lowest common denominator. a lot of music i ignore if i don't like it, country or not, even among "artists" that i like. it does seem as if you have to wade through a lot of fluff until you hear something you like, or are turned on to some good music by somebody.  but i'm sure the crap sounds good to some people, and that's okay if i don't get it, as i'm sure a lot of people don't get the first set of the dead at winterland, sf 12/29/77. but yeah, i could do without a song that is nothing more than a sports chant, that's like writing "someone's knocking on the door, someone's ringing the bell."
198252
I hate rap, but i looooove rock lol, its all good, i like a bit of everything, so yeah but rock is my fav.
165435
i like country rock some rap, if it sounds good and i like it, ok.\n\nif not i turn the dial.
249030
Country music tends to be songs about real life. For more info see:\nhttp://www.roughstock.com/history \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music \nhttp://www.geocities.com/ddriver41\nhttp://countrymusic.about.com/od/history
163143
Western music is anything from Europe and the America's.......so it shouldn't be too hard. If you're looking for "Country and Western" well....that might be easier on Google.
42794
COUNTRY!!\nyeeehawwww!!\nbut I did grow up listening to it, so I guess it is in my blood. oh, and I live in a small town and so I don't claim to be anything other than white trash   :)
157596
Everyone has their taste in music, but that question is sort-of slanted.  It would be like asking if everyone who listens to rap listens to it only for the gold chains and handguns, of people who listen to country do so because they like big hats and belts.  Not everyone who listens to a given genre is going to dress themselves like the musicians they listen to.  I know I don't.
235675
I am a Christian. I like good music, so that kind of leaves out country and rap.\n\nI have had several debates on music with fellow Christians that feel any music that is not praise music is a sin. However what I find funny is they are willing to watch secular tv. (including American Idol, go figure) If you feel convicted by a song don't listen to it. For example while I like both John Lennon's "Imagine" and the Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" I have felt convicted on both of them, so I don't.
87545
I've only heard "Jesus, Take the Wheel", but I think that it is a beautiful song, and that's big, coming from me. I generally hate country music.
301986
I listen to rock, punk, and metal. Rap and country suck.
231587
I think the quality of country music has declined, which is really unfortunate.  It has become pretty corny and sappy and sentimental.  Not, of course, that it's any worse than most of the other crap that's on the radio, but whereas there are a lot of outlets for independent rock, there aren't any (at least not that I'm aware of) indy country labels or magazines devoted to indy country music.  If someone like a modern-day Johnny Cash or Waylon Jennings could come along and direct country music away from the soft rock/country pop crap of Shania Twain and others, I think it would do a lot for the industry.  Until then I'll stick with my old Willie Nelson albums.