[robertsona]

country was the genre it took me longest to get into

it went rap (via nas' "illmatic") -> metal (via isis' "panopticon") -> country (not sure what really got me into it. maybe that loretta lynn song i posted) in terms of genres i never liked

but now i like alllll the music. also i like, as some people have said, the whole "product of their environment" feel of country lyrics. it sort of lets me look into a world that's completely unlike my own, with people who are interested in way different things and have way different lives than i do. same with a lot of rap music. which i guess is some form of cultural appropriation or something but whatever it's cool

also with the exception of the miranda lambert song i posted all of those are pretty good (i.e. more erring on the "alt" side of things) entry-ways to get into country if you have never really been into it