I like everything but Country

The more I hear that, the more I wonder.

It just seems like the cool thing for black folks to say. "I like everything..."(which means you're educated past hip/hop and R&B) "except country" (but you still can't make me white.)

Silly? I think so. I think it's silly that country is such an out of reach genre for people that this crap is the hottest collab for country and hip hop. And honestly, I have very little against this song, but it's incredibly simplistic. It was a start. And people are looking at it's the finish, and the best that will come from a country/hip-hop collab.

I honestly feel like if people gave country music a chance, beyond the heavy alcoholic references, redneck culture, and in some places, a die-hard devotion to the Confederacy, Country as a music genre can be pretty good. In terms of instrumentation and arrangement, country music can be really good.

That said, you find a few songs that escape CMT and make its way onto VH1, and escape 94.1 the Bull (exclusively country I think) and make it on to 99.7 (Hits). For example, Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats." No matter who you are, that song was hot.

Recently, though, another song has escaped from CMT and made appearances in the pop mainstream: "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock.



It's alright. Either the key signature is kinda hard to follow, or when the guitar solo comes in, he's in a completely different (and by different, I mean wrong) key. They might argue they did it on purpose...I'm not buying it.

The song's alright though. Does it necessarily count as country? I don't know...CMT doesn't typically play much outside of country though, and I caught it there this morning. Anyway, here. Some country flavor for you.