Country Music

Some people don't like.  To be honest, I didn't really care for it myself until I moved to Texas last year.  I knew that I was going to be constantly exposed to it when I moved there and my cousins loved it, so I thought that I would go into it with an open mind.

To be honest, I think that country music is the most honest and widely appealing genre.

We can all relate to having a bonfire in the summer with friends.  We all love to sit around and just sip beers with our family and closest friends and just talk about life, love, and what it takes to live a fulfilling life.

Country music stars are not perfect by any stretch.  Like any other famous musicians they do drugs and have rampant sex, but they seem to be more down to earth than the other musicians that are involved in different kinds of music, as a whole.  They sing about universal truths that we can all relate to and stuff that we can experience in our everyday lives.  They don't sing as much about the clubs, money, drugs, sex and opulence that accompanies most of the airwaves today.

The fact that most of the songs that are about love have to do with making mistakes makes them even more appealing to the wider public because we can all relate to making mistakes.  We have all done something to someone that we loved and cared about that we wish we could take back.  We don't know why we did it because deep down we care so much about that person, but we did it anyway.  This theme pops up in a lot of country music and is more of a true statement than something that a rap artist would probably say.

Also, country music just makes you feel good.  It's more about sitting around a fire with a guitar, laughing and talking with friends while watching football on a nice warm summer evening.

At least that's my take.