I've always been totally unimpressed and turned off with country. Damn, I tried to like it; as I used to do disc jockey music for weddings, reunions, parties, etc, and our goal was to always play music the crowd would dance to - and they often danced willingly to lots of country songs. But I suffered listening to the stupid lyrics and the simple beat of the 10cent songs they'd write. Figured it kept the dance floor going, but such light minded crap.

I tried to get into again when the Dixie Chicks made their statement, but it is was just as annoying and simple as ever. I actually think I like heavy metal better, and I HATE heavy metal. But watching this clip of a bunch of red-neck twangers applaud each other's simpleton humor just reinforced my lack of any appreciation for the country music industry as a whole.

Guess you can't please all the people all the time, eh?

His songs like "Ring of Fire" were so intense, with a great hook.

But most Country is like nails on a chalkboard to my ears. Wasn't there a punk rock nightclub on the Sunset Strip that played country to clear the place out after last call?

Old country and blue grass are great.

By country music, I mean Cash, Haggard, George Jones, Ray Price, Patsy Cline, etc. That stuff is fantastic.

The shit they call country music today is redneck pop, plain and simple.

I guess I need to restate my post, since what I was referring to as sounding like nails on chalkboard is what you aptly call Redneck Pop. It's got as much to do with old school country music as Walmart has to do with a farmer's market.

You don't like the GRM (Goat Ropin' Music) awards show??

"We ran out of anything to call it so we called it quits."

My favorite break-up song EVER!

I know most country fucks are rw'ers (or at least pander to their mouth-breathing rw fans), but I thought Paisley leaned left.

She said something like "my faith and Christianity is what makes me a liberal". Of course they don't actually write the jokes on the teleprompter, but still.

His career has tanked, and he makes up the most vicious anti-Obama lies he can.

He also is back on the sauce, you can tell.

Paisley is confusing; he does this at award shows but praises Obama other times. Underwood is secretive - but probably votes Repuke even if she's a conservative Dem.

in the mold of Kirk Cameron.

Pink set the "record" straight!

They were actively on the lookout for any female performers who spoke out against the war to turn her into the object of a "no more Jane Fonda's" foam-fest, and the Dixie Chicks fit the bill at just the right time.

That don't even say it well .This shit isn't Country ,it isn't Western and it sure isn't music .