Submitted by _overclocked_ t3_10es9sk in Music
I want to preface this post by saying I'm from a small town in Northwest Georgia, grew up between North Georgia and East Tennessee, later moving to North Alabama, so I've been surrounded by country music my entire life. I still like some country music, especially the 90s and early 2000s stuff (maybe nostalgia, definitely don't like all of it.) Specifically the songs that really had a message that was more than beer, daisy dukes, shootin shit, etc. Some that I think back on fondly to this day are Dixie Chicks' "Wide Open Spaces" and "Fly" albums, Rascal Flatts' earlier stuff, Sara Evans, Jo Dee Messina, Montgomery Gentry's "Speed", are just a few that come to mind.
Now whenever I'm at a restaurant or a store and they're playing "Today's Top Country", it's almost entirely stereotypes and comes across as mocking. "Bro-country" is what I've heard it called before. Maybe I'm alone in this sentiment but I feel like country underwent some kind of metamorphosis in the late 00s/early 2010s. Anyone else notice this?