I think country going slightly less pop than it has been for decades is a big reason for its current popularity

I feel like if it continues adopting traits from other genres like mentioned and getting this industry/media push we could see it taking the place of hip-hop in movie trailers, commercials, memes etc. in a couple years or so

Gon be dark days for me if country music overtakes hip hop

Has been that way for the majority of history tbh

yes this ties into what i was saying about the 'indie country' movement helping it in the mainstream now. the genre has a huge balance of pop along with the noncommercial stuff and even people like Morgan Wallen can balance both. the best balance the genre had since the 90s

its gonna be interesting to see what the country industry tries to do now that it sees the kids actually want Zach Bryan type music

I've actively been avoiding that genre

They really tryna make it harder for me

Reject modernity
Embrace tradition ✊🏾

im goin off relevance

I will def keep this tradition going

Old school country is dope asl. I don’t check for this current wave

This is moving the goalpost much too far

What is even relevance

Cuz u could be irrelevant one month later in this era

Look forward to trad-wife country pop queen

r u currently charting

only way i see that happening is if the fusion with other genres is so much that it's undeniably not even country anymore. but like ET s said we aren't even going through a movement now where all the country is a fusion, this is a swing back towards purer country compared to the period in the 2010s with bro country bringing in more fusion.

more than any other genre i think its instantly associated by people with a certain sound and image. partly due to it being tied to subject matter and accent, neither of which will appeal to people en masse like that. hip hop and rock have so much more flexibility of what you can do

guess what im saying is that a genre based on traditionalism isn't ever gonna have that role. i could be wrong though who knows

Your loss

Hm.

Keep
Give me Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and all that other s*** before Zach Bryan 🤢

Where it all started

Have you heard something in the Orange at least

billboard.com/artist/ava-max

But your modern girl isn't even in the top 100

i like a little country but my taste/experience with it is very shallow.

i like that song One Man Band by Old Dominion

g wagon wallen clears jk

The N word sayer ?

No but I’ll queue it up rn I guess

Zack shoots beer cans Bryans