This column seems to fill the same space for city dwellers that country songs do for rural folks: recharge their belief that their is something epic and trope-worthy about the repeated banalities of the accidents of their way of life.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1135535892683268096 …
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Slightly different theory about country songs. It’s a reach for identity where there is none. Remember, 75% of country fans live in the burbs. I’d be that’s true for most country singers too. Now, there arena you of both that may have had grandparents who were rural.
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So, you could call it a lament for way of life lost. But I think it’s also a search for identity. I’m not into reflexive poo pooing of burbs, but some can be downright souless. So, country songs can be a reinforcement of identity, and this is important: have become more so.
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Legacy firmware, pretty much a locked bootloader (so far)
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Luckily, people such as you and I know that there is nothing exceptional about us at all.
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joke noted and chuckled at but srs tho, the fact that there is no custom designed "you're part of the tribe" anthem JUST FOR US is evidence that we're not even big enough to make faux culture feasible.
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