Hi! Love your work.
I saw in your tags that you specified that post-9/11 pop country is terrible. I don't know hardly anything about country music: can you either tell me or point me in the direction of a resource where I can find out how/why 9/11 affected country music, please? Is it the white nationalism?
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I'm gonna put this under the cut bc I go on a rant
So, I'm mostly talking out of my ass with this however I do enjoy country music and in the 00's I discovered country pop and was really into it. As well, I've found articles which back up exactly what I'm talking about so I am going to link those at the end.
9/11 of course changed how Americans viewed themselves and of course triggered a rise of American nationalism, especially white nationalism as you've pointed out.
Music is an outlet for people and post 9/11, many American Patriotic songs were revived (think god bless the USA, etc). It also shifted pop country toward nationalism, religion, and a military-supporting standpoint. Song which discussed this, such as God Bless the USA, faced revival. Truly, just any song that mentioned America or USA suddenly become pro-American. There's a number of songs that came out in 2002 and 2003 which show this increase, me blaming Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (the Angry American Song) is somewhat arbitrary but it does show examples of all of these as it was written in late 2001 and it came out in early 2002. It is a song of 'if you fuck with us, we will fuck right back with you' and it topped country music billboards in 2002. Compare this to prior country music, such as Born in the USA, which, despite the modern push for it being nationalist, tells the story of a Vietnam veteran returning home to nothing after he did horrific things for his country. There are other songs surrounding the United States which aren't nationalistic but, I would argue, some of them are patriotic. Including, Death to my Hometown, Independence Day (Is about an abusive relationship, but focused on the Fourth of July), and Battle of New Orleans (IMO the best song made).
More nationalist country that came out post 9/11 was stuff like American Soldier, Made in the USA, or Have you Forgotten?. This increase - which becomes a massive part of what people think of when they think of country music. There is still good modern country, think of Hell's Comin' With Me, which just made it big on Tiktok a few month ago and is a good song - good 2000's and 2010's country continues to exist! This white Christian nationalistic image is just what it is stereotyped as.
So, I'm totally going off but yes, this shift occurred because of 9/11 and what we now think of country as is because of that.
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its been out for almost a year but i have the thing where sometimes i cant engage with popular media until everyone shuts up about it. anyway. olivia rodrigo guts album is really really fucking good.
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was tagged by @adrianicsea to post 5 favorite albums from 5 favorite artists as a poll and well. whatever happens happens! so here we go
EDIT i almost forgot to tag people omg. @bagellu @jelly-f1nz @plutoprophecy @abstractredd @aethersflames and @bonsterfactory let's see your albums!!! (if you want to of course lol)
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