What’s with the country music craze?
There can only be one explanation for artists to suddenly be making some of the worst music possible
With Beyoncé, Post Malone, and Lana Del Rey all donning the cowboy boots, it's time for the yee-haw genre to enter the mainstream. (Pexels/pawel szvmanski/Austin Kelly)
The music industry must be enveloped in the smell of beer, trucks, and kickin’ dust in the air lately, because all of a sudden, many pop singers are releasing country singles and albums.
Beyoncé just released her first country album Cowboy Carter as one example. Post Malone’s also expecting to release a country album this year and has teased the release with his first country song “I Ain’t Got A Guy For That,” featuring Luke Combs. Earlier this year, Lana Del Rey also announced a country LP is on the way called Lasso.
For some reason, a lot of artists seem to be going through a country phase like they’re Taylor Swift. Unlike Swift, who has previously made country music and sustained success with it, this sudden phase of the genre feels out of pocket.
Country is one of the least popular music genres, and there’s a running joke about people hating that type of music. Country music sometimes feels like a parody with how exaggerated singers go with southern accents and acoustic tunes.
If a music video is made, you’ll witness some of the most stereotypical tropes of country music such as people singing on a rocking chair and strumming an acoustic guitar. Don’t even get me started on square dancing in a barnyard or people wearing plaid clothing with boots, cowboy hats, and overalls.
I can’t be the only one wondering what’s with the country craze happening lately. I refuse to believe people actually like country music considering how much of a running gag it is online.
The only possible explanation I can come up with for artists’ country music hype is that there’s a fever infecting everyone, forcing them to make country music.
Who is to say someone like Swift wasn’t Patient Zero when she returned to doing country music a few years ago after all?
With how many artists are already in the phase of country music, prominent ones especially, one can only imagine who could be making country music next.
Imagine if a rap and hip hop legend like Eminem tried making country music. Granted, I’m sure it will sound good somehow, but plenty will get mental whiplash considering his work in the past 25 years or so.
Imagine other famous pop stars such as Olivia Rodrigo, one of the newer artists in the music industry, gave country music a try — we’d have plenty of people in schools playing her new country songs because they’re her fans.
I haven’t even mentioned any international music acts such as MADKID or YOASOBI, and possibly making music you’d hear from the southern United States. I don’t know how that would make sense considering they’re from the other side of the world, but who knows, the fever could be coming for them.
I just want this country craze to stop. Someone save us!
