Wed Sep 7, 2022 – 7:21 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Despite the steep decline of country music over the past two decades—best summed up in Alan Jackson and George Canyon’s duet “Who Killed Country Music”—the industry has been perhaps the last bastion of cultural conservatism in American’s entertainment industrial complex. Most of what passes for country music these days constitutes cliched stereotypes strung together with a good deal of summer boozing, sex, and smoking pot, but performers (a better word, in most cases, than “artists”) generally stay away from endorsing the various woke trends that are sure to alienate many of their consumers.
There have certainly been aberrations, of course. Carrie Underwood made a public show of leaving the church she attended because it held to a biblical view of marriage, which was apparently unconscionable to the fourth season winner of “American Idol.” Rolling Stone published a column last August titled “Why Country Music Was (Finally) Ready to Come Out,” on the rise of a handful of LGBT-identified singers hitting the circuit. There have been a number of gleeful analyses since on how the most traditional—and one of the most American—of music genres is slowly going
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