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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2/ So some other person who lives in the same city as you once ran into the guy who played Fonzie 40 years ago. Someone had a funny moment with a "doorman". See? See! It truly is a city like no other, the center of the entire universe! THE ONE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE!!!
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3/ Or: the singer has a pickup truck, and works hard at his job. But he's got a woman who looks good in jeans. And gives him that look in the bar. And likes tequila. Because this is America! There's a flag outside the high school! RURAL LIFE TRULY IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO LIVE!
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4/ Andy Rooney tells a story. "Only in America!" The story could have taken place anywhere.
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5/ My thesis is that everyone has crippling doubt about their choices. "Am I an idiot for living in the city? The rent is so high, I'm a nobody lost in a crowd of millions and I'll never be discovered / make it". <Tribal anthem plays> Ah, I'm PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER!
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6/ "Am I left behind by the modern economy? Am I a nobody in the middle of nowhere?" <tribal anthem plays> Ah, the dirt is red, the women wear jeans, there's football on Friday night, I'm part of something bigger!
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Replying to @MorlockP
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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fully agree "quest for meaning / authenticity" explains so much
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