the-inspiring-quotes:

queenmoriarty:

there’s a possibility

tsarina7:

Elegant

dovewithscales:

anais-ninja-bitch:

a-poor-decision:

ultralaser:

brunhiddensmusings:

daywatch:

puckconnolly:

Everyone may *think* they hate country music, but when Jolene, Before He Cheats, Take Me Home Country Roads, or Life is a Highway comes on, everyone is suddenly a liar.

I know this is a funny post but

There are a few major points in Country Music’s history that got the entire genre labeled as ‘annoying’

• Post 9/11 nationalism
• A term that I couldn’t make up “Bro-Country” which intensifies themes of booze, objectifying women, and partying that were present in past decades but not to such an extent
• This is Gospel Music But With an Accent

Now looking at the songs op listed there is

• A woman pleading to another woman
• A woman wrecking a shitheads life
• A guy loving the scenery of where he lived
• A song that could easily be mistaken for a number of other genres

But it is easier to say that one hates country while privately enjoying select songs than explain why one doesn’t like the current market oversaturated with our nation’s problems of nationalism, sexism, and so on

see also jhonny cash/willie nelson era songs which were deeply emotional stories often about painful and deep subjects. prison, loss of loved ones, hard labor, facing despair, passion. ‘ghost riders in the sky’ and the like are also deeply satisfying as they bridge more into folklore then ‘murica fuck yeah im sponsored by bud light yall’

another example- ‘midnight in montgomery’ where hank williams junior sings about the ghost of his father

“ … And felt the wind die down,
And a drunk man in a cowboy hat,
Took me by surprise,
Wearin’ shiny boots, a nudie suit, and haunted, haunted eyes,
He said: “Friend, it’s good to see you,
It’s nice to know you care”
Then the wind picked up and he was gone,
Was he ever really there?

‘Cause when the wind is right,
You’ll hear his song,
Smell whisky in the air,
Midnight in Montgomery,
He’s always singin’ there, “

the reason we ‘hate country’ is because we know its supposed to have FEELING and its infuriatingly absent now

70s country - bluegrass traditional

80s country - power ballads

90s country - pop crossover

00s country - white supremacy

it’s about the folkloric story-telling tradition of oppressed poor folks vs marketable capitalistic ass-kissing.

Yes. So much yes. See Dolly Parton and Wille Nelson and Johnny Cash sing about something real and they mean it and they are amazing. Modern country with some rare exceptions doesn’t start with something meaningful to say, it analyzes the market trends to figures out what will sell and then they do that. That or it just plain caters to white nationalists.

But there’s some damn good country out there. It’s just crowded out by utter garbage written and performed by sell-outs.

everythingfox:

Cat loves being buried in sand

(via)

spatziline:

“Now or in the future, shishou will always be shishou” (Mob wholesome quote from the fanbook)

My friend Yokaiza (Twitter) told me this idea a long ago, it was time to draw it.

sieglinde-freud:

intsys will do anything except give lyn her sword back