Modern country is all just aesthetic appeals that's sold to suburbanites so they don't feel like the soft yuppies that they absolutely are.
I'm just like my daddy. He drove an old Chevy pickup that he'd hand wash once a month or so; I drive a lifted Z71 that I take thru the car sprayer weekly despite rarely leaving pavement.
I'm just like my daddy. He was a mechanic by day and tended the farm on evenings and weekends; I'm a financial analyst for Accenture by day and have 5 acres outside the city that I "plan to retire on."
I'm just like my daddy. He had a few guns for getting game and keeping coyotes and hogs at bay; I have six slightly different AR15s with a thousand dollars of accessories each.
Yeah I actually grew up in the country and when I discovered this fact about suburbanites in my teenage and especially college years, that was quite a shock and I have feelings about it. Not that coming from the country is particularly special or worth like defending or whatever, but encountering these posers just very intensely does not spark joy.
I once worked at a dollar store where the manager insisted on only playing the country station, all day every day. I really got to know the top hits. This is the overwhelmingly consistent theme of the lyrics:
Be content with your poverty
Poverty is good
Be proud of your poverty
Be contemptful of anyone who doesn't live in poverty like you do
But also like the audience of most country music isn’t people in actual poverty! They’re people in the burbs who think they’re blue collar because they drive an F-150 to their job at Raytheon.
Jason Isbell at least has a song about killing your classmate's abusive dad.
Not that he's radio country, but, y'know
This sounds absolutely nothing like radio country. A completely different genre.
Alternatively: I fucking love fishing and my old woman left me.
Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price, Charley Crockett, Todd Snider, and Justin Townes Earle would like a word. (I know they're not radio country)
I wish I had access to the drugs Johnny Cash had. Dude was so fucking ripped 24/7. But in all seriousness, barbiturates are fucking scary as hell and super easy to OD on, so kinda glad those got phased out
