Every single modern country song made after 9/11. My coworkers blast this garbage all day at work and I’m nearly ready to tear my own teeth out. They’re all the same song. All of them. Preachy suburban anthems for whitey to feel good about himself. Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Florida Georgia Line, Zack Brown Band, Alan Jackson, and my most hated of all: Luke Bryan.
Luke Bryan’s song “Most People are Good” is the worst country song ever made. From the bleating vocals to the meandering chords, never have I heard a song that manages to be both boring and infuriating. The song might as well be entitled “Rich white man tries to say the bare minimum of nice things and still fucks it up.” Some liberals got into the song briefly because there’s a lyric “I believe you love who you love, ain’t nothing to ever be ashamed of” which seems to be pro-LGBTQ, but like, it’s the absolute bare minimum of acceptance. Also, most people are good? Well who’s not good then Mr Luke Bryan? That’s not addressed and it encourages the listener to plug in whatever nascent bigotries they might possess.
The song also tries to sneak in white American Christianity too, like all these country songs, but Mr Bryan even fucks that up too by engaging in blasphemy: “I believe them streets of gold, Are worth the work, But I’d still wanna go, Even if they were paved in dirt” He’s suggesting that the Christian paradise could somehow be disappointing, even though all descriptions of it are a realm of unending bliss. Good job fucking up your own religion, man.
I hate these people so much.
