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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I'm 47. I grew up suburban. My parents grew up suburban. Their parents grew up either urban, or decidedly rural. Hm. And as much as I'll defend suburbs, there's no small amount of 'just doesn't seem to fit' there.
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Replying to @DoggieLine @MorlockP
You experience is more common. I grew up rural and a good chunk of the people I grew up in now live in the northern burbs of KC (which didn’t exist when I was growing up). The def a difference between burbs settled that way and burbs originally settled by urbanites.
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I was raised in burbs my parents were raised in burbs my grandparents were raised in a mix of cities and nearby country I THINK my great grandparents were raised in country, but I'm honestly not sure
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Replying to @MorlockP @DoggieLine
My mom was raised in a blue collar city (railroad town). Otherwise it’s rural before that. My dad comes from essentially 200+ years of small town and rural. I skipped the burbs and went straight downtown.
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