The thing about country music is that they all use a generic country accent. Accents in the South are actually highly varied but you wouldn't know it by listening to the music. Anyway, country music sucks except for like two people.
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Hey! I was drunk, alright?
jun 19, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t it Standard Nashville English?
jun 19, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I hate, absolutely hate, the fake country music accents! And I grew up & live in N. GA. You are absolutely correct that the real accents are very localized and regional. Sometimes in very small pockets.
jun 19, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of people adopt the same accent to. Like there are Iowans who have given themselves that accent.
jun 19, 2025, 6:56 pm • 11 0 • view
Apparently there is a whole multi-decade thing of Americans going to college and instantly speaking in a British accent. Like Edwin Hubble even did it
jun 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Or the received pronunciation accent that rich people had for a few decades.
jun 19, 2025, 7:00 pm • 6 0 • view
John Kerry's accent in the Vietnam era
jun 19, 2025, 7:01 pm • 5 0 • view
Senator Foghorn Leghorn today
jun 19, 2025, 7:01 pm • 4 0 • view
jun 19, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, Larry the Cable Guy is from Nebraska. Strange.
aug 23, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
It's bizarre!
jun 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 4 0 • view
I knew Utahns who grew up in Clearfield (middle of Davis county) and elected to talk they grew up in Missouri.
jun 19, 2025, 8:10 pm • 2 0 • view
You mean Mizzurah?
jun 19, 2025, 10:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Actual lol. I think their Stetsons reprogrammed their brains
jun 19, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
where it was legal to murder mormons until 1975!
jun 20, 2025, 2:16 am • 3 0 • view
The Dixification of Republicans nationwide is an interesting, albeit horrifying phenomenon
jun 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 4 0 • view
it really took on speed when all the Boomers moved from michigan & pennsylvania to georgia & north carolina because there were no more factory jobs upnorth but finance jobs downspouts. they kept their athome party affiliation, but adopted the mores of the locals into the party.
jun 19, 2025, 7:09 pm • 2 0 • view
It's almost as though they asked Chat GPT for a generic redneck accent and ran from there.
jun 19, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view
the consolidation of "country" into nashville in the heart of the bible belt was the single worst thing ever to happen to american rural music. thank god for texas. or the texas that used to be. bob will is still the king.
jun 19, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Although it’s definitely less distinct now, within my lifetime I could have easily distinguished between a native speaker from South Georgia, Middle (never “Central”) Georgia, and the North Georgia mountains.
jun 19, 2025, 6:25 pm • 17 2 • view
An aunt and uncle moved to Rabun county GA on the NC border in the mid-70s. When we’d go visit, there were people I legit could not understand what they were saying and when I visit now there is virtually none of that. I’m sure there are still pockets.
jun 19, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Or in Va, you can differentiate among the Appalachian accent, the piedmont, or the eastern Va accent, which is akin to the Maryland accent. I have that accent. I interviewed with a certain Georgian judge who demanded to know how I didn’t have a drawl despite coming from Va.
jun 19, 2025, 6:31 pm • 12 1 • view
😂 I had a friend in law school who was from Western Maryland and had a very distinct Maryland accent. My landlady in law school was a native of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia (she was in her 70's, pushing 80 at the time, this was in the late 1990's) and had a very distinct accent as well.
jun 19, 2025, 6:33 pm • 5 0 • view
I'd say hers was similar to North Georgia mountains but a bit more refined sounding.
jun 19, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s very much through the nose and sharp vowels, not round. My dad is from the Tennessee side and he still mispronounces certain words like can’t (“kent”) and ruined (“roined”). I get nerdy about this stuff. I’m sad we are losing all the accents :/.
jun 19, 2025, 6:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Eastern NC says "werter" for "water." That one bothers me actually.
jun 19, 2025, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Lol. The conundrum - too many r’s (NC) or not enough (Boston).
jun 19, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve vacationed on Ocracoke island before. Enjoy the 1600’s influenced accents. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
jun 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 5 0 • view
That's interesting! Didn't know that. Southern English is the closest copy to Victorian English besides this. "ain't it grand!" Was high language. Howdy - How do you do?
jun 19, 2025, 6:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Similar things with Tangier Island (VA) and Smith Island (MD) in the Chesapeake Bay www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
jun 19, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh I know tangier island!
jun 20, 2025, 1:10 am • 3 0 • view
Can confirm.
jun 19, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s 4-5 accent types I recognize in South Carolina
jun 19, 2025, 6:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Its amazing how accurate that NYT dialect quiz from 10 years ago was at picking up where you were from
jun 19, 2025, 6:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah, that was fun.
jun 19, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Try low country South Carolina sometime. It was almost Cajun sounding.
jun 19, 2025, 6:33 pm • 10 0 • view
Still a better accent than the upstate. I purposely did all I could to mute that accent.
jun 19, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Current country music is just right wing coded pop / rock music
jun 19, 2025, 6:18 pm • 25 3 • view
"And they were astonished at his doctrine."
jun 19, 2025, 7:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Work all day in the fields ain't got nothing but I come home to you and my dog and my truck and have some whiskey and it's okay as Long as I got you
jun 19, 2025, 6:19 pm • 13 0 • view
My teen was listening to one the other day all about the wisdom of investing in real estate.
jun 19, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/CORANvT8l9A?...
jun 19, 2025, 6:21 pm • 9 1 • view
It also makes great AI tunes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOP7...
jun 19, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Kind of slaps TBH😂😂😂😂
jun 19, 2025, 6:24 pm • 4 0 • view
LOL this give bro country WAAAY too much credit
jun 19, 2025, 6:53 pm • 3 0 • view
youtu.be/7NJqUN9TClM?... This song was when I began to wonder if the whites were OK
jun 19, 2025, 6:20 pm • 3 0 • view
For real I guess they were just paving the way for RFK
jun 19, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah fuck that if I die young AVENGE ME😂😂😂
jun 19, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
that's just if tennessee williams started a third generation emo band.
jun 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Most of them are highly produced and rip off the backing music user in hip hop at this point.
jun 19, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah just like CCM for the last 20 years
jun 19, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Sturgill, Dwight, Isbell… Is Steve Earle still country?
jun 19, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
The correct Southern accent is the one Miranda Lambert has.
jun 19, 2025, 5:30 pm • 4 0 • view
Miranda please set me on fire
jun 19, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
She's legit.
jun 19, 2025, 5:32 pm • 4 0 • view
One of the 2 non-sucky artists is Jason Isbell.
jun 19, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
savingcountrymusic.com/jason-isbell...
jun 19, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes thank you! I have a mid Atlantic type accent like Maryland or eastern Virginia. We don’t “y’all.”
jun 19, 2025, 6:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Alt county is good.
jun 19, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I keep arguing that country music is great actually and people who say it sucks are just middlebrow elitists but in doing so I always end up insisting that the vast majority of artists using that label over the past 50 years aren’t “real” country and conceding that they suck BUT
jun 19, 2025, 10:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you listened to Sturgill Simpson?
jun 19, 2025, 6:53 pm • 4 0 • view
LOVE HIM!!!
jun 22, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
He's also legit. Ok like 4 people.
jun 19, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
A Charleston accent is an entity unto itself.
jun 19, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view
The problem is that almost all of them are trying to sound like Hank Williams Sr., but what they don't realize is they aren't Hank Williams Sr. That's why one of the reasons I love classic country is they all sound quite different from Cash to Denver to Acuff and Roy Clark.
jun 19, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Colter Wall is a great country music singer. Love his stuff. Only problem I have is he’s the son of the Premier of Saskatchewan yet sounds like he spent the early 2000s stealing catalytic converters in Tulsa to buy OC 80s.
jun 19, 2025, 7:04 pm • 4 0 • view
It would be like if there were a brand of Northeast music and they all sounded like they were from Vermont instead of Philly, New York, Boston, Providence, etc.
jun 19, 2025, 5:29 pm • 30 0 • view
The thought of a Providence band with that accent makes me laugh though.
jun 19, 2025, 6:14 pm • 21 0 • view
if talking heads hadn't been so combustible & stayed together thru the 90s, they likely would have recorded a phish dis album with byrne aping attanasio at some point.
jun 19, 2025, 6:56 pm • 4 0 • view
What if everyone had to sing like they were a towny from Boston? The most inadvertently hilarious genre in American music.
jun 19, 2025, 8:08 pm • 5 0 • view
🎶 ya think ya bettah than me 🎵
jun 19, 2025, 10:24 pm • 6 1 • view
But only when singing. When doing interviews, it's all "pahk yah cah in Hahvud Yahd"
jun 19, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Country music used to be so good pre like 1985
jun 19, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
It was an authentic genre along with Blues from the working classes, Black and white.
jun 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Anti-elite Received Pronunciation
jun 19, 2025, 6:07 pm • 6 2 • view
I love Taylor Swift, but it's always made me laugh that her country accent disappeared so quickly when she crossed over.
jun 19, 2025, 5:47 pm • 2 0 • view
She actually slowly lessened the accent with each album at the start of her career. It was all intentional.
jun 19, 2025, 5:52 pm • 4 0 • view
It was fake to begin with
jun 19, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
That cold, calculating Pennsylvanian stole America's hearts with a fake Southern drawl on "Our Song" and I love her even more for it.
jun 19, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Her final form is pulling out a Delco accent and covering Hawl and Oeats
jun 19, 2025, 8:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Fun fact: they named the album H2O so people wouldn't laugh at them for saying wooder.
jun 19, 2025, 8:07 pm • 2 0 • view
(Not actually a fact, I just made this up)
jun 19, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
That girl(Swiftie here) Berks County PA, was her accent actually authentic? No shade
jun 19, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Merle Haggard would pop an ICE agent directly between the eyes. He’d do it twice on Sundays.
jun 19, 2025, 6:23 pm • 4 2 • view
depends on the era.
jun 20, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
jun 19, 2025, 6:17 pm • 6 0 • view
Gems. All in the rearview mirror...
jun 19, 2025, 6:18 pm • 8 0 • view
Not a one of them ever walked the streets of Bakersfield
jun 19, 2025, 6:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Ohms. But Dwight did.
jun 19, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Meant um. Not meditating. Lol
jun 19, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh Dwight
jun 19, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
There is a lot of good contemporary country music, almost none of it to be found on satellite radio or streaming services.
jun 19, 2025, 7:04 pm • 12 0 • view
jun 19, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
The Americana channel is good but in the 300s
jun 19, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
The Beyoncé album which wasn't even recognized by the Country Music Awards
jun 19, 2025, 7:06 pm • 9 0 • view
Neither was sturgill Simpson.
jun 19, 2025, 8:01 pm • 4 0 • view
First Aid Kit, a Swedish female duo
jun 19, 2025, 7:05 pm • 3 0 • view
There's a whole "alternative country" genre with a lot of legit good music. Check out Bloodshot Records
jun 19, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Growing up in the 90s in suburban Chicago, liking country music was one of the most uncool things you could do. It was up there with being a Michael Bolton fan. We used to be a proper country.
jun 20, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
Garth started to mainstream it
jun 20, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
I see bro country clowns selling out stadiums in New York and California and this shit being the soundtrack of white Gen Z, and yes, I am Principal Skinner and it’s the children who are wrong.
jun 20, 2025, 2:05 am • 2 0 • view
Country music is, like the US, about a 50/50 proposition with some world historic dregs and some insane, inexplicable excellence. Everyone’s mileage will vary of course.
jun 19, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
and i'd say both national news media and country music are contributing to a loss of that variation. it's both diluted and converging into one accent. also, it's escaping the south and being used increasingly in rural areas all over the country.
jun 19, 2025, 5:42 pm • 41 0 • view
The South has metastisized
jun 19, 2025, 5:43 pm • 86 0 • view
Take a drive in South Jersey. You would think you’re in rural Georgia.
jun 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
In more ways than one.
jun 19, 2025, 7:09 pm • 3 0 • view
The Walking Dead, but it's mindless virulent racism.
jun 19, 2025, 6:14 pm • 10 1 • view
I seem to recall someone saying something about The South as a culture has turned into a homogenous culture of "The Rural Folk"
jun 19, 2025, 6:45 pm • 7 0 • view
Will Wilkinson wrote about this years ago labeling it something like the southernification of rural America
jun 19, 2025, 6:43 pm • 25 2 • view
David Cross had a bit about it on one of his albums in the early 2000s.
jun 19, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s seemed like it’s part of a broader project to create a white identity in america
jun 19, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Great, just great!/s. We should maybe enforce telling people where their families came from during school. And I mean where you personally have ancestors from not just the general idea of us mostly being immigrants' descendants or immigrants. There shouldn't be anyone identifying their ethnicity..
jun 20, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
... as American. In the South, there are people doing that all over. We're all Americans because of national ideals and citizenship, not just some subset from race or ethnicity.
jun 20, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
That’s right:
jun 19, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Will Wilkinson shouts get a follow from me
jun 19, 2025, 6:52 pm • 7 0 • view
I apologize in advance for my several bad posts on varying topics. I do not apologize for my half drunk posts during football season in a few months
jun 19, 2025, 6:54 pm • 4 0 • view
open.substack.com/pub/modelcit... Here is the article for anyone who wants to read it
jun 19, 2025, 6:55 pm • 11 1 • view
📌
jun 20, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
i'll be right there with you if FSU has the season I think we will (though it can't be worse than last year)
jun 19, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view
it was confusing when I moved to the midwest and some of the RV salesmen on the TV sounded more like my dad than I did
jun 19, 2025, 5:56 pm • 29 0 • view
They have all bought this fantasy branding and collective identity. It's really wild.
jun 19, 2025, 5:57 pm • 32 0 • view
it really is. last time I was at the Hebron farmer's market here in rural CT, multiple vendors were selling Stars and Bars Trump merch.
jun 19, 2025, 6:02 pm • 14 0 • view
Stars and Bars in CT with every town having a civil war memorial. Drives me nuts when I see it
jun 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 6 0 • view
next time i see it i'm going to accuse them of cultural appropriation to see what happens
jun 19, 2025, 7:03 pm • 6 0 • view
And they’ve appropriated so little. Just a messy yard and some rotten tat
jun 19, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
In Connecticut! It should be an infamia!
jun 19, 2025, 6:04 pm • 19 0 • view
By the cannabis dispensary, near the vape shop and liquor store, down the turnpike from the casino — it’s a yankee puritan hellscape
jun 19, 2025, 6:13 pm • 9 0 • view
Lol try and go anywhere in Oregon more than 5 minutes outside Portland, the Seaside-Astoria section of the coast, or the college towns in the valley
jun 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 4 0 • view
well, in oregon, that's just returning to roots of place as whitesonly utopia that was supposed to be proof of concept that america w/o either negro slave or savage native could be a great country. oregon has never not been whitekanda. white college hipster, white country boi... they like it white.
jun 19, 2025, 7:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh for sure, but Oregon was never part of Dixie and sure as hell you shouldn't have a pseudo-southern accent!
jun 19, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
"Whitekanda" I'm definitely going to be reusing that one. 👍
jun 19, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
America, baby!
jun 19, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You want metastatized: I once saw someone refer to a Canadian country singer as having "that Alberta twang" and sat in confusion for several minutes
jun 19, 2025, 7:06 pm • 4 0 • view
This post is five words too long.
jun 19, 2025, 5:30 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s one word too short. Modern country sucks except for like two people. The classics are still great. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
jun 19, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Lol
jun 19, 2025, 5:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Zach Bryan has some really good alt-country songs and collaborations.
jun 19, 2025, 5:31 pm • 3 0 • view