# I have officially lost all tolerance for country music. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495 "2011-02-24T20:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/201 "2013-11-20T20:30:12Z")
You’re from Wisconsin – you oughta know the rules. The DRIVER decides what music gets played! Your parents don’t like it? That’s why truck stops exist – to drop off shitty passengers in the middle of nowhere without having to worry about them starving to death. Also, it’ll probably be playing music they like – they might not even notice you left them. ---
**Author:** ![ILikeForeignLanguages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@ILikeForeignLanguages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILikeForeignLanguages)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/202 "2013-11-20T21:17:46Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Berm strum strum, berm strum strum > > _spoken_ > > Bahdoom doom doom… > > _first verse_ > > Berm strum strum, berm strum strum > > Strum strum (chord change) strum strum… > > _chorus_ lol I missed this at first. Now that I see it, thanks for the chuckle! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/203 "2013-11-21T18:15:21Z")
Even once you take away the nose picking truckers, runaway dogs, unfaithful wives, gun ideations, conspiracies, historical revisionism and pervading depression, mainstream country vocals are still far too affected for me. For example, here’s Marc Martel, Canadian who relocated to Nashville to pursue his career. Natural voice: [Bohemian Rhapsody](http://youtu.be/wGcDpnxtqsc) Operatic voice: [Nessun Dorma](http://youtu.be/FNMZfFPLoKg) (he starts singing about halfway through) Christian country voice: [Believe](http://youtu.be/ZlQQLp39Zak) To my ear, there’s a whiff of something not quite right with the country voice. To each his own, said the country-listening farmer as he kissed his cow. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/204 "2013-11-21T21:36:49Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Nobody sings about drinking after work? Nobody? Not one other genre of music? Really? Other genres sing about drinking. Other genres sing about work. No other genre puts them together. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/205 "2013-11-21T21:41:06Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Other genres sing about drinking. Other genres sing about work. No other genre puts them together. Nonsense – Pirate Music! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/206 "2013-11-21T21:56:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Nonsense – Pirate Music! And… [_ **whaling songs!** _](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akQ6NgP1avI) Early Bill Murray and Christopher Guest: > [@](#): > > Excuse me, no more country music, no more classical music, no rock, I don’t remember what that was, just **whaling songs**! ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/207 "2013-11-22T03:07:45Z")
> [@Cyningablod](#): > > I endorse this pitting. > > I grew up in rural east Tennessee and now live in Texas. > > And I have always despised country music. (I like bluegrass, but that is NOT the same thing!) You can imagine how well this went over, my entire life. > > Perhaps the worst was when I was in the Army Infantry, circa 15 yrs ago. EVERYWHERE, on EVERY post and in EVERY vehicle and in EVERY dayroom and barracks, was the ubiquitous sound of country music. It’s one of the worst military memories I have, and I will forever associate the sound of country music with being in that stressful, alienating, oppressive, nasty environment. > > As if I didn’t already hate country enough _before_. :mad: I love bluegrass, specifically Alison Krauss [http://www.cmt.com/artists/alison-krauss/](http://www.cmt.com/artists/alison-krauss/) And Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys were tolerable country: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UlDawq9Sjnk?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque But driving thru the middle of IL without Sirius or your ipod is just asking for trouble. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495/208 "2013-11-22T04:00:36Z")
[This is the kind of song the OP is talking about, right?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1zB1hMxhk) chew tobaccah chew tobaccah chew tobaccah spit [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-officially-lost-all-tolerance-for-country-music/572495.md?page=10)