Okay, well fine. The music presently being produced and sold under the genre "country" is terrible. That's all I'm saying.
If your argument is that pop music is necessarily bad, this makes you a hipster. Nobody likes hipsters. How are those skinny jeans working out for you? And your ironic t-shirt? How ironic is it?
1. That's not true at all 2. Why is the target audience something you even consider? 3. Songs I liked when I was 15, I still like today. Songs that I liked when I was 8, I still like today. What would change?
Stated differently: why would you ever be considering whether you're supposed to like a song? I have no idea whether I'm supposed to like the song "Call Me Maybe". But I know I like it.
Life experience tends to change your preference in music. For instance, I liked Kid Rock and Emeniem when I was 15 but now I'm old enough to realize they are both ass clowns who write the same stupid shit that only connects with pseudo-bad asses and middle schoolers whose parents recently divorced.
I fundamentally disagree with all of the above. My response to music is visceral. I hear a song, and I like it, or I don't. I ask no further questions.
Fair enough. Nothing wrong with that approach. I only advise that you not argue music with people who want more.
A Carly Rae Jepson fan is talking music. Classic. I suggest listening to the live version of Whipping Post then committing Seppuku for the shame you've brought to your family.
Swap out the grown up lyrics for something more innocent and you could put it on a kids sing alof album. To put it another way: add a steel guitar, a ridiculously fake Southern accent, and maybe make "girl" two syllables (good gur-uhl) and you'd have a typical modern country song.
