In 2009, Steve Tuttle wrote for Newsweek that country today just isn’t the same: University of New Hampshire Professor David Finkelhor dubbed the phenomenon of the current generation freaking out the next generation is weak or not what the last generation was as Juvenoia.Ĭountry music has their own version of Juvenoia: a fear the next generation of country music isn’t really country or not what it once was. That’s not too shocking, as nostalgia overwhelms objectivity. Billboard and so many others say that Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is not a country song.įor nearly as long as country music has existed, critics have lampooned that today’s country isn’t really country. Somehow that’s not enough to make it country. The most popular song in America features country artist Billy Ray Cryus and is about riding a horse, overcoming opposition and longing for home.
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