When I was growing up country music was all I listened to but I didn't want to, it because I had no choice while riding in the car with my parents. They said,"it is the only decent music out there, these days." I didn't believe that...because there were really cool bands like, for example-- Smashmouth, Weird Al, and Backstreet Boys (Ya what!).
We lived in Chicago so country music didn't fit and I felt like we were a bunch of hicks from the far northwest suburbs. Hmmph, I just wanted some "Allstar" by Smashmouth but what I got was "Achey Brakey Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus. Can you even compare those...(or contrast)
So when we moved to Montana when I was ten I just was submissive in my rebellion against it because..well...everyone was listening to it, So I just went along with it. Into my teenage years I had done everything to reject country music, I would be a menace with the car radio and always have some rock, raggae, or punk music on. I was super cool ;)
In college I had a mjor revelation as to how backwards my thinking towards country music was. I liked to sing to songs and such and well that is really hard to do when listening to scream-o music like Linkin Park. I found myself singing along with Keith Urban, Toby Keith, and Josh Turner. Huh? What? It kinda a just happened. What I hated in my youth I found to be a real passion of mine. Even taking up country dancing and actually loving it. I now do not feel out of place in a line dance or at a country western bar.
Blame it on Montana. Blame it on genetics. Blame it on upbringing. Or even blame it on just good music, but country music makes me just a little more of who I am. So as I sit in Bulgaria and am tortured by Chalga music, country music from Grooveshark.com brings me to where I need to be. Yeehaa!
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