I was debating on bringing something like this up so there wouldn't be a 2.0 of when I was discussing music before where a lot of people, myself included got heated by the end, but I'm curious if I'm the only one thinking this. Where I work there was reruns of the same hour of country music 4 times total from the weekend. Two from the morning and two more after my lunch on Sat/Sun. One thing that really bugged me was one of the country tracks had the lyrics "country is cool again." Now I'm not sure if I just have my head in the sand, but I feel like this year, country lovers are eating good compared to other years. Even Beyonce's put her finger in the country pie (which could be a topic for another time.) I'm not the biggest fan of the yeehaw tracks myself, but even then I would be lying through my teeth saying country "died" or wasn't "cool." Years prior I still heard country at my work although not as often as I do now. Am I just biased on this or is it actually the case?

honestly, in my opinion, country largely died with Johnny Cash. there are a few half-decent to pretty great releases since then (from memory I can really only think of Old Town Road) but country has probably been hit the hardest by the trend towards generification we see in, like, "radio music" (with modern pop not being far behind).

that being said, if it did die with Cash, it did kind of go out on a high note, with his cover of Trent Reznor's ''Hurt'' being one of the greatest songs of all fucking time.