Music: Why do I like Southern Rock, Rockabilly, Honky Tonk, Swing, but I cannot stand Country?
I do not like country music; it is nails on a chalkboard to me- although older country- Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline get a nod; What is the difference between those styles I like- Classic Rock, Bluesy Rock, Swing, Honky Tonk, even Rockabilly- and country that makes it grate on my ear so? Newer Country is the worst. The Alannah Myles song, Black Velvet has a country version which I've heard a couple times and it has made me turn it off- ruined a perfectly good song by making it country. What is it about country that makes it-- not rock?
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I don't like it either. Country music is to me, worse than chalk on a board, it is whiny, twangy and annoying. So, what's the difference. What I can say is that it's the sound of Country that's not present in other genres. My aching heart - oh, it's the nasally woeful moaning sound that gets to me. It's the sound of that moaning. I also experience the same effect with, of all things, Sitar music. It's the sound that impacts on a deeper level that it becomes abrasive. One could almost compare the sound to that of a person who's injured - there's a pain in that sound that goes beyond music, it becomes an emotion expressed, and I'd suggest that it's the emotional context that you may be reacting to. It's wounded, aching, paining, pining - with a sound we'd just not rather hear.