Name one thing more cringeworthy than pop country.

Gangsta rap. The violent themes and lyrics are incredibly cringe worthy.

Having to stand for a pop country version of the national anthem.

Da Doo Ron Ron* is from 1963.

Then you’ve fortunately only heard one of the most bearable examples. I wouldn’t even file Drafi Deutscher under Schlager, it’s more generic pop music in my book, but of course such categorizations are fluid. ETA: Heck, his most famous song “Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht” (can you spot the grammatical error?) was rather a German answer to British beat than Schlager.

60s. You must be a young 'un.

But, no, pop country is worse. Much worse.

ETA: Oops. Should have read a few more posts.

Oh, I would’ve never guessed it was 60s. I still hate it.

We had a thread once about Christian rock entitled (kinda) “Modern Christian music: Rock of Ages, or Holy Shit?”

I vote for Holy Shit.

Props to the Miller Lite cans. These guys are, at least, living the life they’re rapping about. :smiley:

Winner. To quote King of the Hill: “You are not making Christianity better, you are just making rock and roll worse”.

The Shaggs.

Two and half minutes is interesting. An entire album is cringeworthy.

Best answer yet. IOW, ‘your favourite band sucks’.

Any examples you can share?

Difficulty: No googling, and it has to actually be gangsta rap. Obviously you’ll have examples to hand.

Here’s one

Geto Boys: Die Motherfuckers (Still)

(Great tune, btw)

I think you posted the wrong Youtube

And “taking short steps one foot at a time” by Bushwick Bill. I just got that reference.

You mean I am the first to mention new-age music?

Gratuitous cursing in rap.

Pop country crossed with EDM
Pop country crossed with mumble rap
Coldplay EDM
Fitz and the Tantrums trying to rap
Train trying to rap or so anything in the past 15 years
Christian emo incel rap

Edumacate me: What (or who) counts as “pop country”? Is it different from “country pop”? What’s cringeworthy about it? Is it all cringeworthy, or just most of it, or just the very worst of it? Is it especially cringeworthy, or is this just a variant of Sturgeon’s Law that says that a certain percentage of everything is cringeworthy?

Yodeling cowboy music.

I’ll just post this and slowly step away…

Oh yeah. Almost forgot. Although I do love me some good bluegrass music, bad bluegrass is one of the most horrendous things mankind has ever inflicted on itself. I did a stint as a gospel station DJ for a few Sunday mornings, and I heard an awful lot of horrible, horrible stuff.