...country song practically ever written need to have a reference to god/heaven/church?

Listening to the country station at work (because my co-worker Justin likes it and we do play fair over what we listen to even though modern country music does nothing but drive me crazy) this really struck me. What struck me even more was how annoying it was when I started listing for such references and noticed their frequency - I mean a song could be about muddin' and they have to throw some oddball reference to Jesus in there.

Don't get me wrong, god is good, and if that's your thing, cool, but it just seems like song writers are like, "ok, we got a good radio play song, now we just need a reference to god in the chorus to top'er off and it'll be perfect!" I guess they're just playing to their audience but it seems like a cheap way out subject wise.

However, before you cry foul for me picking on country music, I will poke at metal music as well. Does anyone find it annoying when a metal song does the same damn thing, only with a reference to hell/Satan? I'm not against artists expressing themselves but I do get annoyed when a song is pretty much avoids this and then they have to throw out a single line that throws it into such stereotypical territory at the last minute. Again, I'm not going to stop listening to music because of this, but I hate the preconception by some that metal music is inherently evil because of such lame references that belong and were hallmarks of the 70's and 80's.

Anyway, this is a rant on something that is pretty obvious within music and is unlikely to change, but really, country will always be light and metal will always be dark.

But seriously, I'd wonder if there are any satanic country bands out there. Probably no market for that however….

Oh, and one last thing:

Carrie Underwood cannot sing Randy Travis' "I Told You So" worth crap. I don't care what he says about her peformance, she sounds like she's in pain on some of those notes. Original or bust.

Yeah, I share your distaste for country, but for decidedly different reasons. I will NOT abide that twangy, whiny sound, or those horrible forced southern accents (like they just got through a torrid night of scrompin' with a member of their immediate family).

Okay, okay, okay...

So, like, when metal first came out, all the holy-roller types were like..."That music is of the devil!" and of course, metal musicians being as metal as they are, they're not gonna say, "No, no, no! You have us all wrong!" They were like...they paused for a minute, and then said, "YEEEAAAHHH!!! WE ARE OF THE DEVIIILLL!!!"

So you see, heavy metal didn't always incorporate motifs about worshiping Hell or Satan, we can thank the Bible-thumping crowd for that!

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The preceding story is entirely fictional.

Hope you enjoyed it!