“I wake up, put a dip in, crack a cold one, and put my boots and my overalls on. This is the country boy song.” This is a line in the lyrics of a song by country singer, Earl Dibbles Jr. According to this line, this is the life of many who live in Tennessee who could be called country. Those who have not lived the country life associate country with the lyrics above, which is ignorance, because the language and culture of those who are not country have encouraged many to believe that being country means being less intelligent. Those assumptions could not be more wrong. A typical Tennessean rides the back roads to school, knows the first and last names of all their neighbors, and takes pride in their Appalachian dialect. Many form the
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The country music genre is increasing in listeners every day, and with every new song comes another new music video that forms an inaccurate representation to the meaning of country. One example of this is in new artist Luke Comb’s song “Let the Moonshine”. This song talks about a simpler place in time where people could sit back at night and stare at the moon shining brightly in the sky. On the other hand, it is also referring to moonshine, a distilled liquor, as the definition of country. When music listeners watch the music video it has males who only wear plaid flannel button-ups, drive jacked up diesel trucks or four wheelers, drink alcohol, and chew tobacco. This forms a false accusation that only men who act in such a way would be the ones to sit back and let the shining moon take their breath away. In addition, Northerners have much to do with people downgrading Southerners due to the way Appalachians pronounce words. Although, someone from Tennessee, Kentucky, or Alabama may say the word ten as tin, they still know that ten is a number and tin is an element. All good Southerners know that tin is what you put on a barn and the number ten comes after nine. It’s how it’s used in a sentence that causes us to have no problems whatsoever understanding which word was
The country music genre is increasing in listeners every day, and with every new song comes another new music video that forms an inaccurate representation to the meaning of country. One example of this is in new artist Luke Comb’s song “Let the Moonshine”. This song talks about a simpler place in time where people could sit back at night and stare at the moon shining brightly in the sky. On the other hand, it is also referring to moonshine, a distilled liquor, as the definition of country. When music listeners watch the music video it has males who only wear plaid flannel button-ups, drive jacked up diesel trucks or four wheelers, drink alcohol, and chew tobacco. This forms a false accusation that only men who act in such a way would be the ones to sit back and let the shining moon take their breath away. In addition, Northerners have much to do with people downgrading Southerners due to the way Appalachians pronounce words. Although, someone from Tennessee, Kentucky, or Alabama may say the word ten as tin, they still know that ten is a number and tin is an element. All good Southerners know that tin is what you put on a barn and the number ten comes after nine. It’s how it’s used in a sentence that causes us to have no problems whatsoever understanding which word was