For this post, I wanted to talk a little bit about country music just because I am very fond of the majority of it. Back when I was in junior high, all of my peers had me convinced that country music was for losers, rednecks and people who didn’t have a life. Because this sort of image went along with listening to country, I chose not to because I would of rather not been labeled as one of these things. However, the summer of my eighth grade year, I would visit my uncle a lot and he would always be playing country on his boom box. Subconsciously, I began to memorize the lyrics to some of the songs and they began to grow on me.

The care-free feel and laid back vibe that country music gives off is what really drew me into it. There are some rather depressing country songs which I would rather not listen to, but the ones that talk about enjoying life to the fullest and have an up-beat, catchy tune are very hard for me not to enjoy. I particularly enjoy Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, and Rascal Flatts. I feel that most country is very relative to life, and maybe more people could realize that if they would just listen.

However, I can definitely see where some people are coming from when they say that country music just isn’t for them. Some country is terrible, depressing, or just too ‘redneck’ in general. When an artist puts too much “twang” in their voice, that’s annoying because everyone who has ever heard them speak in real life knows that their ‘country’ voice is just a show. An example of this would be Taylor Swift back when she considered herself ‘country’. And now that she’s not ‘country’ anymore, her twang seems to have disappeared.

As a whole, country is very relaxing to me and is always a genre of music that I feel I can go to when I don’t know what else to listen to. It never fails to put me in a good mood or brighten up my day. It is especially good music for listening to in the summer time or on a nice day driving around with the windows down.