Similar questions have been being asked since the 2nd generation of the Grand Ole Opry members took to the microphones/stages/radios/records.
Similar questions were being floated 40 years ago.
Similar questions were being floated 20 years ago.
similar questions have been asked since Isaac Watts started writing hymns, and musical instruments were allowed in worship services... and likely, before that :)
gee just country music?
it’s the whole darn culture and all it’s movies, TV and music, dance, clothes.. in all it’s forms.
We used to be the Greatest Generation, we beat the Nazis.
Now it’s just full of narcism.
Similar questions were floated last week...right here...with this same article.
Very little contemporary music, from any genre, ‘trips my trigger’ these days. Country included.
For me, I think its the lack of great, unique voices...probably a byproduct of the reality that music stars today have to look good for the camera, even more than sound good.
And technology simultaneously makes up for vocal shortcomings (auto-tune) while emphasizing shortcomings in the looks department (HDTV). So, more than ever, we get really good looking people who are adequate singers.
I mentioned this on the other thread from last week. If you watch a re-run of Hee-Haw, or a musical act from the Ed Sullivan Show, etc....the performers are ‘naked’. There is very little to back them up - no earpieces helping them out, no synthesizers, no auto tune, sometimes no music. They had to be very good, or they would be exposed.
So I agree a lot of today’s music is fairly bland....or at the other end of the spectrum, deliberately strange to get attention.
And the same questions were asked of rock music 20 years ago, and 40 years ago.
The problem is that now I’m asking those questions instead of defending the genre. I’m not getting old, the modern music is crap. Really, it is.