You’re About As Country, As I’m A Kangaroo

This is a song about how many true country fans feel about some of the “new country artists” who want to infiltrate rap or hiphop styles into country music.  Many country fans aren’t very receptive about it by a long shot.  Add that with the ridiculous way some of the female singers have soiled the country music genre with having to perform in revealing costumes which draw attention to their breasts or crotch.  It’s insulting.  Some true country fans find it insulting that some of the new artists were rappers who grew up in cities and wouldn’t know a horse from a cow, but some how have convinced labels that they’re country singers.  Again, older country fans aren’t buying it.  To them it’s asinine, a con job and all about  money by hopping on the band wagon because country music has become very popular.

One person made a point of bringing up the fact that Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had made a comment that anybody could write country music songs, and the Rolling Stones put out an album they deemed was “country music”.  I personally listened to the album and wasn’t impressed.  The music wasn’t very good and sure as hell wasn’t country music either.

About 10 years ago or so there was a rock group, who I can’t remember their name, wrote a country song under the guise that they were poking fun of country music.  The irony was that it became a country hit, which is more than I can say about their rock music.

The bottom line is that country music is and was about hard working farmers, ranchers, cowboys and cowgirls who worked the land, rode horses, worked with cattle, drank beer and whiskey, drove pickup trucks because they needed them to haul supplies and to be used as a tool for their farms and ranches and hunted game to feed their families. These new artists are imposters who are like illegal immigrants crossing our borders, benefiting from citizen’s taxes who hide their illegal status and pretend to be Americans.  People aren’t asleep.  They watched how rap, hiphop  and other new styles destroyed rock music.  Country music fans are afraid the same will happen to country music; leaving it to be left with noisy drum beats and no longer recognizable.

It only takes a little dirt to destroy a bag of flour.