I genuinely do not know how people enjoy country music

I live in Europe, where American country music is not on the radio all the time, but I have to say I like that music style, and the lyrics are often fun. For example:
"If the phone won't ring, that's me."
"My wife ran off with my best friend, and I miss him" 😏

Modern country is definitely rough.

Country rap needs to be thrown into a volcano.

Current country music is mostly mindless , has the same sound as every other country song . I love 80’s country. Don Williams , the Bellamy Brothers, Roseanne Cash, Eddie Rabbit, TG Shepard, Alabama, Earl Thomas Connelly, Merle Haggard, George Strait, And a million more I don’t have time to mention . That was great country and great is great to dance to

I find that if you play a country song backwards you get your wife, dog and pickup truck back #amiright?

When I was a kid, I had to help Mom clean the house each Sunday morning. This was done before breakfast, and involved a lot of cleaners and such things that made me sick to my stomach. It also involved the radio on the local C&W station. Mind you, this was back in the '70s, long before country became just rock-n-roll in cowboy hats — old-fashioned country. Anyway, I still associate the sound of country with the sickness in my stomach from those days.

I don’t understand why some like rap or hip hop, to me it’s just noise.

This is as close as I get to listening to Country

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I like listening to it when I'm feeling blue and plaintive because that's the mood that country music elicits in me; when I'm feeling joyful and in the mood of celebrating life instead, I listen to the blues 😁

It has to be classic country for me. Hank Williams, etc.

Eddie Arnold, Patsy Cline, Conway, or Marty Robbins does it.

Although I can appreciate the pop influence in new country.

I got to say I don't really get country music after 1980s.
I think the best country came out of the '60s and '70s.
But I also grew up listening to that so I would be a little biased.
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Today's "country" is anything but. Gimme the music from the 30s through the 70s anyday

The artists you have listed--let's add George Jones to that list--are all, to me, REAL country, even if I'm not a die hard fan. But....this modern "bro country" stuff makes me lose my lunch. It sounds to me like music for people who don't like music.

Anything pre-1993 is ok by me.

“I’m so lonesome in the desert since my horse died”
Gold!

I love the others too! 😊🌷 All the inspiration, came from them!

It’s become a new fangled form of southern rock pop

New country is like the new hair metal

I hate it

I might mix it up with some country but what I really dig is Hardcore Psychobilly

I think country music is an aquired taste like rap and heavy metal.