Country music doesn’t exist anymore. It’s nice that you can pick up the old real stuff on CDs pretty cheap these days. Country has become no different than hip hop. If you have one CD, you have them all.
You are so correct. Who cares about homosexuality, country music is homogenized. I rarely listen to what’s played now. For women, I thought the issue was being a female artist. I suppose now it’s all about being a gay female artist. Who cares?
On Sixty Minutes Blake Shelton was asked about complaints that it all sounded alike. He went off into the “we sing about stuff we do like drinking etc”. People aren’t complaining about the subject matter of the songs. People believe it sounds like all the artists use the same studio musicians and the same back up singers. The DO sound just alike.
I stopped listening to country music in the 90s. I’m starting to do open mic nights and I sing only the old stuff.