Question: Why do country music artists always seem to bash city people?

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Answer #1:

HMMMM... IDK

but did you know that country is one of the main sources for suicides? YEP. NOT LYING. PROVEN FACT.

Answer #2:

cause your a damn yankee

Answer #3:

It's not really "bashing" per say. What is really going on in these song's is they're singing about empowerment and how a lot of city slickers try to do what we do by doing it with money instead of working for it. It's not really "city folk suck because I can til a land with my bare teeth and all they do is shop and eat" (that actually rhymed, ohmylord xD) It's really just trying to compare how a hard working man (not that city folk ain't hard working) but a man that works from the sweat of his brow and works the land instead of a corporal business. Kind of showing the purity of a life in the sticks as apposed to the condensed, fast lane, snaky life of a city person. I guess you could say. Yeah sometimes there is some bashing, but that's mainly the singers that are rebel to the bone (confederate) and they'll spit on your shoes and call you a dirty lousy yank'. But mostly, country music is about enjoying something, and making the best out of a situation, no matter what it is. And it just uses city folk to kind of compare and contrast.

In the case of Luke Bryan's song Country Man, he's just trying to show how rugged and sexy a country man can be. I mean, when you think of country, that's what you think of, don't you? Somebody rugged throwing bails of hay or driving a badass truck, fishin in the ol' creek, deer hunting? And when you think of city, you think of business men, or girls with sunglasses and namebrand (fakebrand too) clothes and shoes. He's saying that he's got muscle because he works with his body from dusk till dawn. Instead of at a desk or in a department store or restaurant, etc.

Anyway, sorry about the giganticness of my reply, it probably didn't even make to much sense, haha. Hoped it helped a little bit, hun. :)

Answer #4:

Well, you seem to be demanding respect for the "city man" stereotype, yet at the same time, your message is filled with negative bias towards the "country man" counterpart. "One of my friends is a redneck... but a smart one!", "...if they're not singing about God or getting married to their high school prom queens and raising big families..." It's the same kind of argument we constantly hear at this category when uninvited users come asking how can we possibly enjoy a music genre that (in their words) "glorifies being a fat, drunken, lazy, ignorant slob", as if somehow we needed to be redeemed or awoken from our nightmare.

Truth is, you're taking things too personally and too literally. Not like there aren't "country" people who also do, but it's you who's asking for an explanation here, today. Stereotypes are just that, an abstract compendium of qualities that rarely exist in the flesh, and letting ourselves be guided by that can only be called prejudice.

So I suggest you just relax, don't take things too personally, and endure these "offenses" with humour, just as country people endure being called ignorant, inbreds, lazy, drunk or whatever else they usually do. No team will ever win this battle, so there's no point in arguing further. And just as a side note regarding Luke Bryan's song, I'm genuinely amazed that you don't realize the great dose of humour it contains, which is far more directed towards the "country man" stereotype than any mentions it has for the "city boys". Just hear deliberately exaggerated lines like "I can wrestle hogs and 'gators with my two bare hands" or "can't get this kind of muscles anywhere but a farm" and you'll see just what I mean. I could have expected a rant against songs like Rhett Atkins' "Kiss my country a$$", but Luke's song...?

Relax, my friend.





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