Can a conservative love rock 'n roll? I am sorry, Freepers, I prefer Nirvana to Nudie, I like the Stones over Rascal Flatts, and the Who over Martina McBride. I wince at the deep voiced dudes with the cowboy hats covering their receding hairlines talking about honky tonks, the wife who done me wrong, and my hunting dog by the swamp. Most country music is actually pop music with a fiddle, anyway. It is not anything more than Britney Spears with a steel guitar hear and there.
I can't stand country music, yet I am a conservative through and through. Give me Nickelback, John Mellencamp, CCR, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top over Randy Travis and the other country stars.
Can you be conservative and love rock 'n roll, I ask again?
I’m a heavy metal conservative. Megadeth, Metallica etc but I don’t hate country.
Yes, listening to The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin right now
Absolutely! My daughter is a staunch conservative. So is my 16 yr old grandaughter. They both hate country music.
Hi. I’m kimmie7 and I HATE country music.
Wow, I feel so much better! *whew*
YES!! Without a doubt. Country music is awful.
As for political content, no boot-scooter can hold a candle to Rush. 2112 is a libertarian masterpiece.
I’m a rocker from the get go, though I do like the old country (especially Johnny Cash). Can’t stand modern country, sounds like 70s soft rock with an accent, and 70s soft rock was bad enough the first time around and doesn’t really improve with an accent.
I really don’t think there’s much of a connection between a person’s musical taste and politics. Musicians, like all artists, trend toward liberalism because they’re emotion based people and liberalism is emotion based politics. But just because it makes your toes tap doesn’t mean it drives the mind. Some of the best music made is 60s anti-war music, lyrically it’s completely wrong headed and stupid, but the level of conviction behind it makes it musically compelling.
Woody Guthrie was a raving socialist.
That said, he was a great songwriter and the display at the Rock and roll hall of fame is a hoot! all his instruments carved up with slogans like “This machine kills fascism”
I can listen to Country (and Western, a la Blues Brothers), but I don’t own any of their CDs. Just not my default. I will listen, though, if it’s between Country (and Western) and Rap/HipHop.
I can’t stand country — right up there with rap in general crapitude. Give me Nirvana, Hendrix, the Beatles, Cream, the Pixies, Buddy Holly, the Clash, Soundgarden, Jack White.
Depends on where, and when [to paraphrase Dion and the Belmonts] you grew up.
I grew up in Yonkers, New York, 50s and 60s. Doo Wop Rules! Favorite band: The Searchers. Favorite Groups: Dion and the Belmonts, The Drifters, the Everly Brothers. Favorite Artist: Buddy Holly. Female Group: The Shirelles. Female Singers: Ann Wilson [Heart], Darlene Love.
I am definitely with you on this one. I can’t stand country music, I listened to it in my 20’s, (loved George Strait back then), but I can’t listen to it now. I share their basic moral values, just can’t stand the twang!
I prefer Nirvana, Maroon 5, Black Eyed Peas, Gnarls Barkley, Dave Matthews, basically anything new, but please NO COUNTRY!
Honestly, this is as stupid as asking if a conservative can like the color red and not the color blue. Of course, a conservative can like rock music and hate country music. The article is correct in talking about the history of Southern politics. It was only in the 1990s that Republicans even held statewide office in the South, really. Al Smith pretty much only won the South in 1928, over Hoover. FDR won the South all 4 times he ran for President. Adlai Stevenson only won the South in 1952 over Ike, and in 1956. Nixon lost in 1960 because JFK cleaned up in the South.
Yes. I like some country music like Johnny Cash. Other than a few others I'm not a big country music fan.
As for Metallica I love everything from the Black album and prior. I've seen them 3 times in concert and each one was better than the last.
The question is as ridiculous as “Can I be a conservative even though Im not white or a Christian?”
Yes, I am living proof.
“Country music” is an oxymoron.
Rock and roll has it roots in country music. You can hear it clearly in early elvis. And I agree that most country is pop music with a fiddle. But most rock music today sucks. It’s not going to last two or three years from now, whereas Zep and early Van Halen will last forever.
This conservative loves (most) rock, hates (most) country, but has a soft spot for Bluegrass (must be my West Virginia roots shining through).
Two types of music, Country and Western and I like em both.
Of course. You can even be a conservative and love artists who are outspoken liberals like Springsteen, or even the Dixie Chicks. As Stevie Wonder wrote, "Music is a world within itself."
Do you ask your mechanic, or the cook at your favorite restaurant, or your barber, about their political leanings? Of course not. Good work is good work. Not everything is politics.
That said, I wouldn't be so quick to hate country music. I apply Sturgeon's Law to music: "90% of everything is crap." I've always liked some country and a lot of rock, because I was raised on both. I discovered jazz and old-school soul and R&B in my teens.
For the longest time, i completely dismissed techno, electronica, whatever you want to call it, because it's boring and repetitive and as a brass player, the synthesized instruments sounded fake and cheezy to me. It's driven by producers and editors, not, to my mind then, real musicians. I disliked salsa and Tejano because it's repetitive and thumping and I had Mexican neighbors who played it way too loud when I was trying to sleep. But I gradually became more open-minded.
I have a knee-jerk reaction against anyone who becomes the flavor of the month too quickly, so I really never had much use for Madonna. But one day I realized "Take a Bow" is simply a really good ballad. I had no use for Eminem, but "Lose Yourself" has really clever and intricate rhythm and internal rhyme. Most modern R&B left me cold, but there ain't nothin' wrong with Alicia Keyes, Macy Gray or Lauryn Hill. Most electronica is thumping repetitive crap designed for ravers tweaking their brains out, but Moby weaves some really great mixes, and I've come to appreciate that as a form of musicianship in its own right. Most salsa doesn't appeal to me, but there's nothing worng with Celia Cruz or Tito Puente.
Bottom line, I like music in just about any genre, but I'm selective about which artists and songs. That's why I used to make cassettes for driving around, then I burned CDs, and I now have an MP3 player. I very rarely listen to music of any kind on the radio, because their taste sucks and my playlists are much better than theirs.
Eventually, I came around to this: My favorite musical genre is "good." And it can be found in every section of the record store (I guess I just dated myself there).