I've been listening to this station for about 5 years, and while the music quality is mediocre (too recent, female, and pop) it hasn't really changed, and it's still better than most of the other stations. What has changed is the quality of the ads. I know they believe the audience is conservative, because they used to run ads for gun stuff all the time. Note that I say used to. It's been months if not longer since I've heard a gun ad. I'm not aware of any offical policy change, but the absence of gun ads is conspicuous. They advertise vaxtard shit, and while all the stations do that this station seems to do it more, though I may be biased since I listen to this one the most.
What really got me thinking about this is their ads pushing shit like mental health, self care, and of course therapy. There's nothing wrong with mental health and self care of course, but self care in particular is used by leftists to justify lazy and shitty behavior, and of course therapy in current year is nothing more than feminist brainwashing. It's interesting that all this "wellness" stuff never includes eating better, exercising, or making life improvements that solve the root cause of any mental health problems. Nope, just stay miserable and allow commie grifters to profit from it.
Seems like country music industry is trying to cater to a different audience. Although at the station level it could be different. Country music station where I live doesn’t play the older stuff so I rarely listen. I do remember ads that catered to a more conservative audience but have no idea what it’s like now
Modern country feels like pop music from 20 years ago with a cowboy hat on. Give it another decade and it will be be hip hop about rolling away from the po-lice in the pickup truck with some whiskey to go pick up dem hoes.
You made me laugh out loud. I’m weird though because my favorite country singer is Hank Sr and I listen to stuff from 20s to 90s (bluegrass too). Chris Stapleton, Tony Jackson, and Darius Rucker are to only newer ones I listen to. Or when I see a young country artist with a classic sound who doesn’t crap on their fans I’ll support them
Sturgill Simpson is another modern one I like. In addition to more traditional country sound, he also had an album he made called "Sound and Fury", which he came up with while high on painkillers and in addition to a very unique sound he worked with an anime studio in Japan to create a whole "animated album" for the songs.
Here is an example of my favorite one off of the album.
Other than that, I have mostly drifted into metal, most modern country I pick and chose by the song while still liking the older 90's stuff, and beyond that say Alan Jackson is still right.
Thanks! Will check him out
They kinda already sing about that.