Modern Country Music in 3 minutes and 29 seconds.

[TalkingDog]

This video was made by Entertainment Weekly writer Grady Smith in response to readers who thought his list of his favorite country albums from 2013 didn’t include enough mainstream country music. “I hope country fans will stop settling for this derivative junk,” he says in a message on YouTube. “I love a dumb party song every once in a while (including some of these!), but when they’re the only flavor available, they get old very, very fast.”

[Johnny Noshoes]

1. My sig line says it all....

nt.

[Plucketeer]

2. LOL!!!

This drivel is manna for baggers. Big, badass, carbon-belching trucks that state: Mine's bigger'n yours! OH.... and all the Barbie-Doll shaped girlies - not a buxom or chunky one in the bunch. I've never looked to C&W for an intellectual retreat.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Amen. I stopped listening to country music altogether about 8 or 9 years ago, about

the same time that the Dixie Chicks were driven out. All those guys in the video are Kenny Chesney clones, singing cloned material. It's like the faceless Nashville songwriters, who have historically provided a lot of schlock and a little bit of good stuff, were replaced by software that spits out NOTHING BUT schlock. The singers have little to do with any of it, they're just the delivery device.

[Demo_Chris]

4. I was at an event a month or so ago...

And as always there was a country music band playing. But this time something the singer said stopped me in my tracks and made me laugh out loud. He said, and I QUOTE:

"This next song is another song about guns and Jesus."

And no, I am not making that up. It was about the funniest thing I have ever heard one of these yahoos say.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. BJ Thomas nailed it in 1976 with the generic title of all time:

[Demo_Chris]

9. Hillarious, never even considered the name of that song. nt

[ybbor]

5. Hank III says it best

Probably NSFW, but the lyrics say very well!

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[TlalocW]

6. Normally I wish for pyrokinesis for Christmas

This year, I'm asking Santa that all the singers in that video be sent back in time so a 1950s Johnny Cash can kick all their asses.

TlalocW

[RebelOne]

8. The 1970s Johnny Cash would have done a better

ass-kicking on them. I saw him and his wife June in concert in Homestead, FL in the '70s. I am not a country music fan, but he was fantastic.

[mitty14u2]

10. Time doesn’t change much!

[maindawg]

11. Going back to the 50s,

its always been 3 chords ,some 16 year old piece of ass and jesus. Trucks and guns are the new fad.