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Pretending to understand Azure@normalfriend.bsky.social |
there are few things i hate more than the song “try that in a small town.” 1) you call yourself a country musician but you draw the line at “cussing out a cop?” you’re supposed to do coke and write a song about killing a lawman, coward 2) small towns fucking love crime, what are you talking about.
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Waffle Cut
@wafflecut.bsky.social
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Honestly insulting that they even tried to pull a “noooo, we didn’t mean it like that.” The recent spate of extra-racist country music and musicians is awful but I guess not super surprising.
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Sandstone Violin
@sandstoneviolin.bsky.social
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🤷♂️ It's a fantasy song written by committee & sung by an ambitious dude who went to one of the segregation academies (IYKYK) around Macon GA (which is many things, but not a small town). IMO the song fits that specific background quite well in terms of catering to people's self-delusions.
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meddle
@meddle98.bsky.social
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Also, Jason Aldean is from Macon, GA. And lives in Nashville, TN. I don't think he's ever seen a small town in his life. To me there's few things more pathetic than people like him trying to play the phony country boy schtick
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CindyLou
@cindynorth1.bsky.social
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like since when are rural people not criming all day and night?
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🇵🇸hungry🏳️🌈hungry🏳️⚧️harpy🇺🇦
@the17thqueen.bsky.social
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I just think of the snide shit Cash would have to say about this ginger weasel bitd.
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Luke R. J. Maynard
@lukemaynard.bsky.social
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I grew up listening to country music: Hank. Buck. Mother Maybelle. Patsy. George. Loretta. Dolly, before "Jolene" marked her big crossover in 1973 (she was still GREAT after; she just moved in other genres). Nashville "cowboy pop" isn't country. The idyllic small town it's all set in doesn't exist.
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Tim Waits
@ironweed.bsky.social
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If you ain't in the hot joints takin the pills GTFO
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PeoriaBummer
@peoriabummer.bsky.social
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You don’t shoot a man because he’s looting. You shoot him because you want to watch him die.
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VFXpapa
@vfxpapa.bsky.social
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I was recently seated near an older couple at a restaurant who were enjoying the enthusiasm my kids had for their meal, and just being cute in general. I smiled back; shared a knowing look with the dad, etc. And when they left, I saw they had a "Try that in a small town" shirt on and I thought…
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Captain sue
@capnsue.bsky.social
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You’ve probably seen this but if not youtu.be/jeJXF55HXRI?...
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Miamichefpapi
@miamichefpapi.bsky.social
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Marty Robbin’s killed a man over an illegal immigrant.
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Miamichefpapi
@miamichefpapi.bsky.social
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What passes for “country music” is just pussified pop music with twang.
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Jason, the Okayest Painter
@theokayestpainter.bsky.social
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If it weren't for running from the cops there'd be no NASCAR.
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Flannelducky
@flannelducky.bsky.social
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There’s another song I can’t stand that’s about “having famous (in a small town) friends” which includes just like. Obvious police corruption and I hate it! I hate it so much!
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val
@trickycrayon.bsky.social
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His fans sure didn't seem to like the cops much when said cops were attempting to evacuate them because there was a tornado warning at the venue down the street from my house last year...they sure love that song but were definitely not living it.
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aug
@ifitkillsme.bsky.social
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The Pat Finnerty video on this song is a work of art youtu.be/jeJXF55HXRI?...
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Minuit
@zoroark.ca
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Can't arrest you for what they don't know about.
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Rich in MN
@richinmn.bsky.social
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I can’t imagine what a remake of The Dukes Of Hazzard or Smokey And The Bandit would look like today.
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AceCatLady
@acecatlady.bsky.social
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As someone from a town of 1200, yes.
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🍄 shroomdrawsandwrites
@shroomdraws.bsky.social
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They do also love to pretend they don't have crime, so at least it's consistent
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Tripwire
@tripwire69.bsky.social
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“But it’s a DIFFERENT KIND OF CRIME REEEE!”
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Liz Thurmond
@countmystars.bsky.social
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It’s like the entire genre of Outlaw Country never existed. What the fuck.
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Alex de Campi
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
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Hank Williams Jr is cussing this man out from beyond the grave In fact the entire Williams family would like a goddamn word
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Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert
@filigreemchana.bsky.social
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I think Agatha Christie had an observation about small towns: they held the same evil as cities, it's just concentrated. Definitely not all 'cozy mystery', more like body horror.
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Orgrim Doomscroller
@californiascroll.bsky.social
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For all the lamentations about “you can’t write that song nowadays” there will never be a modern cover of Harper Valley PTA
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Gammera2k
@gammera2k.bsky.social
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The record label forced him to change it from sundown town.
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pezpunk
@pezpunk.bsky.social
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He doesn’t mean a small town, he means a southern suburb.
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Tall Alf
@homunculusdick.bsky.social
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It's like how biker clubs are all a bunch of cop glazers now. You peep a row of bikes lined up outside the worst bar in your town and they're all wearing biker cuts with a blue line shield on it.
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@werechicken.bsky.social
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Literally just the most asinine shit they think their municipalities are small towns lmao
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MikeyT00
@devilmikey.bsky.social
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Country music lost it's way post 9/11 with the hyper patriotism that followed that event. The right used that to completely remove most lefties from mainstream country. Once it got to the point where the Dixie Chicks were run out town for being against the Iraq war, it was done.
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Pretending to understand Azure
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it’s so transparently an extremely racist song fantasizing about killing “looters” and communists and it’s so fucking embarrassing. Carrie Underwood wrote like four songs about killing men who wronged her because she isn’t a complete fucking loser
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Keith Edwards
@kedwards.bsky.social
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What part of, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,“ do you not understand, Jason Aldean?
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Teo
@teocee94.bsky.social
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Shit, not even small towns. I'm from a midsize city in the Midwest and it was basically Meth City USA for most of my childhood
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skateintraffic
@skateintraffic.bsky.social
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Small towns love defunding their police
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The Man From Rio
@themanfromrio.bsky.social
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All I could think about was how much fun it would be to run amok in a small southern town. Pushing over old ladies, stealing tractors, running phone scams, defacing public property, etc.
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Will Pierce
@willpierce.bsky.social
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Man, I tried that in a small town and the dollar general cashier didn’t even look up
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Dr. Jimbosaur, Esq.
@jimbosaur.bsky.social
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The fact that he specifically says "pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store" as an example of something you can't do in a small town. Small town liquor store clerks live in a state of constant terror that they're going to get shot by a meth head in a robbery gone wrong. And they're right to.
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Energetic Nova
@energetic-nova.bsky.social
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With women the formula is passive + desperate. Or Revenge, especially on the judgemental or abusive And the third sort of song is always like I Hope you Dance or One way Ticket or are crossover rock songs .
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Jen
@cat-maven.bsky.social
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That guy loves Dukes of Hazzard and Cannonball Run except for the parts where they're mean to cops and don't back the blue.
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Strifecaster
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The small town I grew up in had so much crime for only being like ~230 people, half of whom I was related to. There was like a 3 year period where EVERYBODY was having gas siphoned out of their cars in the middle of the night. Also SO much drugs, my one cousin being one of the bigger dealers.
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Saul Shapiro
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"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” Sherlock Homes, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"
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Yoder of Kansas
@yoderofkansas.bsky.social
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I've seen Justified. So much shit goes down in Harlan County it makes you wonder why there isn't a perminate FBI branch there.
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Robot On Coffee
@robotoncoffee.bsky.social
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Small towns have rampant crime and police corruption under a facade of Americana. I grew up in a small farm town, found out later from a former dealer, there was literally millions of dollars of coke moving through it. The cops would spend their time harassing kids and turning a blind eye to it.
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Iizard
@iizard.bsky.social
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Small towns only exist as staging beds for horror mysteries
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Molly
@mollydkaiju.bsky.social
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Johnny Cash did not suffer for his art for this bilious mush to be called "country music."
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Isaac Rabinovitch
@isaac32767.bsky.social
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There was a time when you didn't have to explain these things.
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Mike King
@voidmfg.bsky.social
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He’s going to come out with a Red Simpson-esque concept album where the songs are all from the perspective of an AR-15
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Glen
@vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
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Aren't small towns where all the meth comes from?
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Ellis Beck
@ellisb77.bsky.social
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I hate the way that song’s been taken as emblematic of country music and country fans’ attitudes (usually by people who know very little about the genre and accept the easy cliche it serves up).
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Jared Yates Sexton
@jysexton.bsky.social
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Loooooooove crime
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Beth
@thisbethlife.bsky.social
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Small towns are hotbeds of crime, it’s ridiculous
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Chris J
@cpj1.bsky.social
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9/11 pretty much changed country music for the worse.
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Multi Hardcore
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ok, i will try that in a small town. thanks for the travel recommendation
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Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ
@coyoteden.bsky.social
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That’s what you get when country becomes a genre of pop music. Which it mostly did because of 9/11 and the opportunity for grifters to commercialize “patriotism”.
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Stephanie Cheney
@slcheneypr.bsky.social
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I know! It’s the cheap low rent violence paired with suspect patriotism that I find so annoying.
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@postaljim.bsky.social
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Uvalde was in a small town and the cops did nothing, stoneman high school in Florida was a small town and cop hid
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