I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
I never listened to country music growing up.
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.
I have always been infatuated with country music.
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.