Modern Day Country Music

Country music has been evolving into what we call the modern day music. Country music used to be music that was about life and the good times and now it is about the love and break ups. Country music is changing from lifestyle and the way life actually was, like writing from the heart to what it is now. The modern day country is songs based off what people want to hear and what makes the money. One of the biggest artist from the traditional country music is Hank Williams Jr. and how he compares to modern day band Florida Georgia Line.

Traditional Country music was an era that started back in the early 1920s and extending all the way to the 1980s. “The 1920s is where it all began- with Atlanta’s music scene, in particular, playing a significantly

This is the era where country music became love songs and break up songs. This is the era where the traditional country music lost its soulful music. “Country music utterly took the world by storm throughout the ‘90s, largely thanks to the popularity of Garth Brooks, who broke countless records throughout the decade” (AEG). Modern day country music stretches from Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line to Luke Bryan and etc. Which brings the topic to modern day country music being called “bro-country” (Eldridge). “The bro-country term was coined last year by New York Magazine’s Jay Rosen, who describes the genre as music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude” (Eldridge). Modern day Country music is music that people can still relate to but its relating to the love life, break ups and partying which actually is targeting more of the younger generation instead of everyone. For example, “Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line, who have taken over the charts by trading fiddles and pedal steel for pop hooks hip-hop and rap flourishes” (Eldridge). Country music in the present day is nothing more than hip-hop that is repetitive lyrics that reaches the attention to the youth which could also be a bad

as a song writer and artist of the traditional country music verses modern day boy band Florida Georgia Line as song writers and artists can sum up how much country music in general has completely changed. The main question is whether or not it is for the good or the bad of country music. Hank William Jr. is an artist of the early 1980s, who wrote songs about the working class of America and how life was at the time and present. One of Hank William Jr.’s number one hits: “Country Boys Can Survive” talks about the way of life in the South and the Working class. Its shows the history of the United States and how times were tough to survive due the government issues. This song allows people to relate as many people in the South and America has to break an arm and leg to just survive. Where Florida Georgia Line is a boy band of the late 2000s and they are artist who does some song writing of their own but majority of the time has their songs wrote by others or worked on by other artist. Florida Georgia Line has songs that are about the love life and break ups for an example one of their latest songs: “Holy”, which is about a female who came into a male’s life, when he was in his darkest times of life. Where he was all break up about life and the female came into his life and saved him for the dark. This goes to show how the modern day country music is about love and addiction to the way life is