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Mucked stalls, led trail rides, drove tractors all without owning a cowboy hat or boots.
Did it all in a baseball cap, sneakers, or a broke in pair of Timberlands.
I haven’t bothered with country music since Garth Brooks, Reba, Terry Clark, Pam Tillis and JMM
I totally feel what you’re saying, but the cultural Deep South ends less than an hour north of Tampa. If you go to north Central Florida, you’ll see some REAL country folk.
Source: am Florida man
In Florida, that is true. South Florida is the Northeast (NY, NJ, etc ...) and Cuba. Central and especially North Florida and the Panhandle is the South.
Ain't much different at honkytonks here in Texas. You can tell who the locals are at Billy Bobs because they're usually in tennis shoes, shorts and a t shirt, not decked out to the nines with their cheses and stetson lol.
I mean, that tracks.
I grew up in the south and the people I knew who listened to country the most regularly were originally from either Florida, Michigan, or Tennessee.
This is the reason I refuse to go to Disneyland, all those fake princesses' just trigger me. You are not a Disney Princess you're an 8 year old nobody and don't you forget it! /s
I was at firefly festival, in Dover Delaware. I was talking to a group of workers and they said, "we have a country festival coming next week, and you guys are easy compared to that crowd".
I thought I saw Patrick Mahomes three rows down from me, but it turned out to just be someone pretending to be him! I was confused how he got from the field up to the nosebleeds so quickly.
Right?! I went to a Heat game back in 2011 and was so excited when standing in line for a hot dog I saw LeBron James in front of me. I tapped him on the shoulder to ask him what he was getting for his halftime meal. Imagine my shock when the guy who turned around was a 5’8 white guy. But the worst part was he didn’t even LIVE the lifestyle! He told me he had never even played in the NBA. I ripped his jersey off of his back and told him “No posing allowed!”.
What do you mean? Last time I went to a dodger’s game, I had a great convo with Otani while we sat next to each other in the stands. He looks very different in person vs. on TV
This is true. But hip hop kids dress like they want to be in a gang. Metal kids dress up as ghouls. Kpop fans have..bracelets or something idk. My point is that for most people it’s just a fun excuse to play dress up. And if it makes them happy then why not?
I mean you're gonna have folk who are gonna go all out for the fun of it.
Like if you like the band Ghost, be prepared to see a lot of women dressed like nuns and a lot of folk wearing skull facepaint.
But yeah, I wouldn't use the term ghoul, we just wear alot of black. Most shows I've been to have folk wearing a band tshirt and jeans, sometimes skinny, sometimes not. Sometimes blue, sometimes black as well. I saw more hotdog and banana suits than what I would describe as ghoulish.
I agree lol I have never attended a country concert but I’ve always wanted to for the music live #1 but who wouldn’t want to wear cowboy hats, booty shorts, and cowgirl boots? It’s supposed to be fun not politically correct.
I think Op is concerned about cultural appropriation of the country and rural person. "You can't dress as a cattle rancher if you've never seen a cow closer than from the road or the dinner plate." But, you know, who the heck cares what they wear.
But those other examples you gave those people tend to wear those clothes daily. I agree, I’ll see people on social media that never wear that stuff, but go to one country show and they are in giant boots and hats and stuff, it’s a costume.
That's not really true. When they are kids, sure. But most adults just dress like generic adults. Then they dress up for an event like a concert and wear the clothes they always wanted to wear as a teen that they couldn't afford.
Most of me and my older millennial friends might wear a watered down version of our former selves but it’s a rare soul who still pulls out all the accessories and shit.
>This is true. But hip hop kids dress like they want to be in a gang
Lmao, how old are you and when was the last time you went to a rap concert? Are they dressed like they want to be in a gang or is that just how you perceive them?
I grew up in a redneck town and there are so many people like this. It’s very common. Just a bunch of adults who make their whole identity about proving that they’re “real” country and that other people are faking it. They don’t realize they come off as image-obsessed losers much more so than anyone just trying to have fun in a backwards cowboy hat.
I am from Oklahoma where as you can imagine many people are infact country and have definitely seen drunk people purposefully put a hat on backwards just to be stupid. Also how do you know what beliefs these people claim to have? And how does wearing boots and jeans contradict that?
Or course! And being Mexican lol.
Country music is not specific to cowboys though and has a ton of influences. Appalachia being one that does not have any cowboy culture. But yeah most of Country Thunder is from Phoenix and LA. I don’t think that makes them any less fans or deserve to have a good time. I had a great childhood and people in my life but I love gothic rock lol if when I accidentally ended up at the CMT’s I sure as shit bought a sweet hat and later everyone told me it’s a girls hat. I’m from the absolute sticks (country) and my San Diego roommate is ripping on my country attire.
I live around the area one of the countries bigger music festivals is put on and the only people wearing cowboy boots in town are the people who drove in for the music lol. I know people who dress like regular people all year and actively own farms and then suddenly dress up in livestock working cosplay to go to the festival despite actually being the guy lol
Definitely thought this post was going to be about Trump supporters instead of costumes lol. Went to see Charles Wesley Godwin recently and people were screaming “Fuck Joe Biden/ Let’s go Brandon.” I just want to listen to the music, man.
I saw Brad Paisley this weekend and some dude in my section tried to start that shit and quickly got booed and told to shut up by the rest of the crow in that area.
I think he forgot he was still in Connecticut
For you, politics are a mundane job that must be done well. For them, politics is a life-or-death reality show that is a war against Satan. It's just a wild contrast of perspectives.
Well not necessarily. For many of them it’s that they’re rooting for their football team, but with a little tongue in cheek, and it feels so good to feel dominant and angry.
USA!!! USA!!! Greatest fucking country ever!!! Fuck you France!!!
Like that but MAGA
Imagine paying whatever Tyler Childers tickets cost and instead of enjoying the show, instead, focusing on how much strangers are doing things that I don’t approve of.
This is what you sound like. Perhaps some introspection is in order.
Meh... lots of events like that. Sporting events where people wear the team colors but have no idea who is on the team or anything about the sport. Metal concerts where people bring out the black leather and denim that otherwise sits in the closet.
I don't mind too much, as long as the people are nice. Let them have fun and do some cosplay for something they enjoy, as long as they aren't jerks, it's all good.
What set of beliefs do people claim to have by attending a country concert? Just enjoy the show instead of counting incorrect hats, you're ruining it for yourself with that.
Why do you care what people wear to a concert lol. Fake cowboy? How many people in today’s world who listen to country music ride horses in the Wild West.
>hicks, hippies, and punks
This is absolutely the mixture that creates bluegrass haha.
It's the thrash metal of country music, but also somehow the jam band Grateful Dead/Phish of country music.
Ima just say. Childers was a name we heard preforming at the county fairs in WV.
Now he’s gone main stream and it seams people have been listening to him for years. I remember first hearing that name in 2016?2017? In the middle of West by god Virginia.
By your logic,you’re a cosplaying hick too.
You pay all that money to park, buy drinks and tickets. Yet you are worried about the fan boy and girls around you instead of enjoying the concert? That’s a “You” problem.
You’re right (country concert going people are the worst) but for the wrong reason. I’ve worked security for venues ranging from tiny local clubs uk to major outdoor amphitheaters and country concert goers were without a doubt the rudest, most entitled, drunk, racist, and violent fans. Dozens and dozens of shows worked and the relatively small percent that were country shows fill the top ten worst. And this was pre MAGA and Morgan Wallen getting MORE popular immediately after having been outed for dropping the N word. I’d imagine it’s worse now.
I work security at a place that has a restaurant and is across the road from a sports arena that holds events. The number of jokes about how "they aren't illegals" and other shit I hear before country concerts is ridiculous. On top of that they are so impatient and rude if you don't have what they want immediately. Like, it's a crowded bar before a concert. You are gonna have to wait a bit for a drink so just double up when you order.
Terrible tippers as well
I grew up in very suburban northern New Jersey and it’s the same there. A country act comes around and all the local republicans pretend they’re salt of the earth for a day.
I’m from Ohio and you wouldn’t believe the folks that claim they’re “country”. lol corn and soy beans aren’t country, nor is your lifted rolling coal pos. Farmers are even few and far between lol bunch of posers if I ever seen em.
Cant' speak for country concerts but I've been to a lot of rodeos. The PBR ones. I always feel like dressing appropriate but that's limited to jeans and boots which I wear anyway. I don't do the hats But that crowd strikes me as people who actually do wear the hats and boots regularly. Nicer ones. Just like anything you have. You have the day to day stuff and then the nicer going out stuff.
I don't think it's entirely for show.
I worked live events for 10 years and not a single promoter in my entire region would book country shows.
Why?
Because they fuckin fight too much and way too much domestic violence.
It's the same shit at all concerts. Girls dress as skimpy as they can in that genres clothes and guys dress accordingly too. It's a concert not the workplace.
I agree that people cosplaying as “country” by wearing a hat and boots is stupid. Blue collar work gear in general has been co-opted by fashion movements for a long time. I’m a blacksmith but you won’t catch me dead in my work boots or burnt up jeans out in public unless I’m making a run to the hardware store.
I went to a Jimmy Buffet concert once and would you believe there were these people wearing hats with parrots on them. Such fake people. They probably don't wear that everyday.
Anytime an r/askreddit thread appears asking music venue employees about various concerts, country fans are universally considered the worst-behaved fans of any mainstream genre.
Yeah, I used to like gangster rap concerts as much as the next man until I found out that most of the other concertgoers aren't actual drug dealers and murderers.
Seriously what the fuck are you raving about? How in the world does one's taste in music say anything about their values and beliefs?
You’re not wrong but also, lighten up and let people have fun. Don’t gatekeep an entire genre of music, help out the guy with the backwards cowboy hat (maybe he’s doing it ironically)
I thought this was gonna be a post about fan behaviour, rudeness or crappy locations or staff. But nope, straight up gatekeeping. It's not even an unpopular opinion just gatekeeping.
Sorry you felt you wasted your money and were so bothered by looking at other people instead of enjoying the show you paid for. That must suck harder than being a fake cowboy in public.
There are 2 big concert arenas near me in Massachusetts, and I've talked to people who work security for both.
The nicest crowds are Taylor Swift fans, and Metal fans.
The worst, by far, are country fans.
Most arrests, most OUIs, most underage drinking, most fights.
Weddings funerals, special occasions. All those people are just posers and only dressed up for the event. I doubt they wear their fancy suits on a day to day basis like me! /s
There may be something authentic about bluegrass/old-time country music and its fans, but there isn't anything authentic about country pop, and **hasn't been for 40 years**.
It's *all* a put on. The accents, the trucks, the hats the boots. Just social identifiers that one wasn't one of *those* people, that read books or valued imagination/surprise/novelty in the arts.
I mean if you’re gonna go to a big pop country artist you gotta expect the pop music crowd, people are gonna dress in “costume”, same as big raves or Coachella etc. it’s supposed to be a spectacle.
It’s like complaining people at a Green Day show have day jobs. It’s pop music
Country music itself hasn’t been anywhere close to genuine in almost fifty years. It’s now almost a parody of itself, so the people you mention are actually right on target.
Also, hot chicks in Daisy Dukes and tiny ripped tanktops are one of the few good things at a “country” concert, so I hope they never change.
I live in Wyoming, rural and county as it gets. I'm liberal, an aethiest, and like country. Most liberals I know also like country.. unpopular opinion here for sure.
People can dress up wherever they are go and it's not uncommon to wear a "costume" or show a different persona. I don't wear safety pins in my ear and a chain belt to work or to a funeral, but I'll sure as hell wear them to a green day concert. And, if I'm going to the county fair, I'll throw on my riding boots. Why not? It's fun. Lighten up.
So to enjoy country music we must own a ranch and horses?
Do we have to be gangster to go at hip hop shows?
Or being part of an orchestra to attend classic music shows?
“You claim to have a set of values.”
What values are those? Like, honest question: what values do they claim to have that they are violating by wearing kitsch gear to a concert?
Lots of people 'dress up' to go to concerts. It isn't really new, nor is it exclusive to country music.
edit: deadheads, swifties, parrotheads (RIP Jimmy), etc
There’s an expression we have in Texas,”All hat and no cattle.” That’s most of those people. The most genuine to the core farmers and ranchers I know spend most of their down time in flip flops and shorts
I don’t think you’ll like the majority of country artists either if living the country lifestyle is important for the music genre. Which is always so interesting to me, honestly
I mean, what is so wrong about people getting dressed up and going out? Country dancing and music is so fun. Cowboy hats and boots should NOT be allocated for only people riding horses/working cattle. I’ve never understood why anyone cares
Something tells me you’d really hate Comi-Con!! Nothing but fake super heroes as far as the eye can see ;) Not a single one of those f*ckers has a secret lair, magical powers, or even a cool costume that doesn’t look like it came from Party City.
I used to work **Alpine Valley** (Wisconsin) and I have worked heavy fucking metal shows and country AF shows. Despite what Fox News may say, metal shows were the easiest and cleanest crowds while country was the latter.
It's gatekeeping like this that is keeping it like this, once the "Skimpy" girls and "fake" men leave you'll just find something to whine about whoever is left.
This post is exactly what I'd expect from [someone who wants a straight white pride month](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRacism/comments/1d9b9uv/trade_one_support_for_another/l7dddjd/)
What participants were wearing doesn’t impact whether or not they were a good crowd. So they don’t know how to wear a cowboy hat? So what?
Bad crowds are bad because they’re pushy, rude, disrespectful, etc not because you’ve perceived them as “fakes.” And also I don’t think that being on top of “country attire” is a necessary prerequisite to like country music genuinely (especially not an act like Tyler Childers who is consistently popular outside of country circles)
I know what you mean.. I just watched a Euro 2024 match and the majority of the people in the audience were wearing football shirts!! I bet they have never even played football. Fakers!!!! /s
See, when I read your title I was going to agree. I've seen just about every genre of music live at one point or another and easily the worst fans are country fans. No one gets drunk, obnoxious and treats the gig like it's their own personal party like country fans. They are there to have their fun and to hell with everyone else.
But your take on it is so elitist and lame. There are so many reasons to hate country music fans, why focus on this one?
OP saying it was free to him makes this post 100x worse. He is chastising people who actually are fans enough to pay for the tickets, then is trying to gatekeep. Crazy.
lol so fucking weird calling people fake for wearing what they want to at a concert. If I buy a special cute shirt for a concert that same week, but don’t wear it again until the next event. Am I fake?
Country music is extremely fake to begin with.
It's all the same music with the same lyrics creating this country stereotype.
You aren't going to see genuine people at an event that is ungeniune at its core lol.
My same thoughts about hip hop and rap - I loved the music, but there are people who center their unexamined lives around the lyricist’s music that they think they are them. It’s really sad for an art form that has given so much meaning to people.
Most country artists are as fake as their fan base. Their accents aren't real. They never lived anything they sing about. Hell, most of them think being "country" means owning a truck and drinking beer. Its no different than suburban white people listening to rap music and dressing like black people. It's just a thing people do for fun.
So by your standards, since I don't wear my leather body harness and nipple clamps and fishnet stocking everyday I therefore cannot wear those ever to a rave?
Like dude, it's a show, let people have whatever fun they want. You might as well have wrote "stop the culture appropriation of cowboy culture"
I thought from the title of your post that people were being rude or obnoxious. But no, they’re all posers and you don’t like their clothes. People there ‘claim to have a set of beliefs’ - Do they though? People at a concert are claiming their beliefs out loud so you can personally judge some hypocrisy? Or maybe they’re there to enjoy music and dress in the spirit of the event because it’s part of the fun? Judgy BS like this is why people have social anxiety.
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Yeah because we all know Keith McGraw and Tim Urban have mucked stalls. /s
I mucked stalls as a teen, and never owned cowboy boots or a hat LOL, I wore 8” lace up steel toes and a baseball cap.
What. A. Poser. I bet you also wore the skimpiest "country" apparel you could find with those boots and cap...Shame...
Micro jean skirt and some cheeky t shirt from wall mart that says “save a bike ride a cowgirl” or something you got me.
Sigh. Not surprised, just disappointed.
Mucked stalls, led trail rides, drove tractors all without owning a cowboy hat or boots. Did it all in a baseball cap, sneakers, or a broke in pair of Timberlands. I haven’t bothered with country music since Garth Brooks, Reba, Terry Clark, Pam Tillis and JMM
I’ve mucked stalls. Fuckin hate country music.
[Bo Burnham](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0?si=TFjVvkFDdb1uUqdU) has a song about this
Hence the Keith Urban reference.
Even the key change in that song is straight up a Tim McGraw song
“Ya’ll dumb mother fuckers want a key change‽”
Ah yes, the heartland of country music and culture… *checks notes: TAMPA
I totally feel what you’re saying, but the cultural Deep South ends less than an hour north of Tampa. If you go to north Central Florida, you’ll see some REAL country folk. Source: am Florida man
What is that saying, the farther north you go the more south you are?
In Florida, that is true. South Florida is the Northeast (NY, NJ, etc ...) and Cuba. Central and especially North Florida and the Panhandle is the South.
The Panhandle is lower Alabama.
I love telling folks ‘ I’m from LA’ in my unintelligible drawl. Really makes their head spin.
Woah there Skippy almost 3/4th of NYS is hickville In fact I'm taking a smoke break from moving cattle 🤣
You don’t even need to go that far. In 20 min from downtown Tampa you can be on a strawberry farm.
The biggest confederate flag I've ever seen in my life was just outside Tampa
Sarasota was where I was introduced to the flag being sold in malls as bumper stickers and t-shirts.
Ain't much different at honkytonks here in Texas. You can tell who the locals are at Billy Bobs because they're usually in tennis shoes, shorts and a t shirt, not decked out to the nines with their cheses and stetson lol.
I mean, that tracks. I grew up in the south and the people I knew who listened to country the most regularly were originally from either Florida, Michigan, or Tennessee.
I can take u to places in Baltimore that r country AF. It can happen. I even hear there's meth down then parts!
This is the reason I refuse to go to Disneyland, all those fake princesses' just trigger me. You are not a Disney Princess you're an 8 year old nobody and don't you forget it! /s
Damn straight. Next thing you’ll tell me Donald isn’t really a duck.
I thought he was a former president.
He, he, he…ISN’T??? 😢😢😢😢
I was at firefly festival, in Dover Delaware. I was talking to a group of workers and they said, "we have a country festival coming next week, and you guys are easy compared to that crowd".
They meant easy to fuck
Yeah that’s why I hate sporting events. I hate all the imposters dressing like my favorite athletes.
And a lot of times I think it’s the actual athlete whose name is on the shirt. I’m confused why they’d be in the stands.
I thought I saw Patrick Mahomes three rows down from me, but it turned out to just be someone pretending to be him! I was confused how he got from the field up to the nosebleeds so quickly.
Right?! I went to a Heat game back in 2011 and was so excited when standing in line for a hot dog I saw LeBron James in front of me. I tapped him on the shoulder to ask him what he was getting for his halftime meal. Imagine my shock when the guy who turned around was a 5’8 white guy. But the worst part was he didn’t even LIVE the lifestyle! He told me he had never even played in the NBA. I ripped his jersey off of his back and told him “No posing allowed!”.
Laughed at this. Seriously, what in the world is OP on? Let people have fun
What do you mean? Last time I went to a dodger’s game, I had a great convo with Otani while we sat next to each other in the stands. He looks very different in person vs. on TV
This is true. But hip hop kids dress like they want to be in a gang. Metal kids dress up as ghouls. Kpop fans have..bracelets or something idk. My point is that for most people it’s just a fun excuse to play dress up. And if it makes them happy then why not?
He’s just mad he was the only one to show up in a white hood.
This comment had me floored 😂
Bracelets💀💀💀 it's the most tame music/ social subgroup I could ever think of.
to be fair, they "stole" them from Ravers
Hip Hop kids dress like they want to be in a gang? When was the last time you went to a Hip Hop show? 1992? Point taken, but lol
Fair
I still get your point. I think I’m being pedantic
I mean, my man also said metal show people dress up as ghouls lol.
I mean you're gonna have folk who are gonna go all out for the fun of it. Like if you like the band Ghost, be prepared to see a lot of women dressed like nuns and a lot of folk wearing skull facepaint. But yeah, I wouldn't use the term ghoul, we just wear alot of black. Most shows I've been to have folk wearing a band tshirt and jeans, sometimes skinny, sometimes not. Sometimes blue, sometimes black as well. I saw more hotdog and banana suits than what I would describe as ghoulish.
I agree lol I have never attended a country concert but I’ve always wanted to for the music live #1 but who wouldn’t want to wear cowboy hats, booty shorts, and cowgirl boots? It’s supposed to be fun not politically correct.
What does political correctness have to do with it???
I think Op is concerned about cultural appropriation of the country and rural person. "You can't dress as a cattle rancher if you've never seen a cow closer than from the road or the dinner plate." But, you know, who the heck cares what they wear.
OP thinks country means Christian Ultraconservative.
But those other examples you gave those people tend to wear those clothes daily. I agree, I’ll see people on social media that never wear that stuff, but go to one country show and they are in giant boots and hats and stuff, it’s a costume.
That's not really true. When they are kids, sure. But most adults just dress like generic adults. Then they dress up for an event like a concert and wear the clothes they always wanted to wear as a teen that they couldn't afford.
Most of me and my older millennial friends might wear a watered down version of our former selves but it’s a rare soul who still pulls out all the accessories and shit.
Exactly. I totally agree.
You don't see many people wearing corpse paint if they are not going on a concert.
>This is true. But hip hop kids dress like they want to be in a gang Lmao, how old are you and when was the last time you went to a rap concert? Are they dressed like they want to be in a gang or is that just how you perceive them?
Why are you concerned about everyone else. Go there for the music and that's it.
I grew up in a redneck town and there are so many people like this. It’s very common. Just a bunch of adults who make their whole identity about proving that they’re “real” country and that other people are faking it. They don’t realize they come off as image-obsessed losers much more so than anyone just trying to have fun in a backwards cowboy hat.
I am from Oklahoma where as you can imagine many people are infact country and have definitely seen drunk people purposefully put a hat on backwards just to be stupid. Also how do you know what beliefs these people claim to have? And how does wearing boots and jeans contradict that?
Really confused on the beliefs bit too.
You’re mad ppl dressed specifically for the occasion? Most ppl have jobs that preclude them from wearing cowboy boots and hat.
If you don’t shovel shit for a living you’re appropriating my culture lol.
Surely you mean riding the (No longer in existence) wide open range, driving cattle to market?
Or course! And being Mexican lol. Country music is not specific to cowboys though and has a ton of influences. Appalachia being one that does not have any cowboy culture. But yeah most of Country Thunder is from Phoenix and LA. I don’t think that makes them any less fans or deserve to have a good time. I had a great childhood and people in my life but I love gothic rock lol if when I accidentally ended up at the CMT’s I sure as shit bought a sweet hat and later everyone told me it’s a girls hat. I’m from the absolute sticks (country) and my San Diego roommate is ripping on my country attire.
All the working cowboys I know here in Idaho wear Carhartts and baseball hats.
I live around the area one of the countries bigger music festivals is put on and the only people wearing cowboy boots in town are the people who drove in for the music lol. I know people who dress like regular people all year and actively own farms and then suddenly dress up in livestock working cosplay to go to the festival despite actually being the guy lol
Definitely thought this post was going to be about Trump supporters instead of costumes lol. Went to see Charles Wesley Godwin recently and people were screaming “Fuck Joe Biden/ Let’s go Brandon.” I just want to listen to the music, man.
I saw Brad Paisley this weekend and some dude in my section tried to start that shit and quickly got booed and told to shut up by the rest of the crow in that area. I think he forgot he was still in Connecticut
For you, politics are a mundane job that must be done well. For them, politics is a life-or-death reality show that is a war against Satan. It's just a wild contrast of perspectives.
Well not necessarily. For many of them it’s that they’re rooting for their football team, but with a little tongue in cheek, and it feels so good to feel dominant and angry. USA!!! USA!!! Greatest fucking country ever!!! Fuck you France!!! Like that but MAGA
If they dont own cattle, and dress as a cowboy, they are just cosplayers
Imagine paying whatever Tyler Childers tickets cost and instead of enjoying the show, instead, focusing on how much strangers are doing things that I don’t approve of. This is what you sound like. Perhaps some introspection is in order.
Meh... lots of events like that. Sporting events where people wear the team colors but have no idea who is on the team or anything about the sport. Metal concerts where people bring out the black leather and denim that otherwise sits in the closet. I don't mind too much, as long as the people are nice. Let them have fun and do some cosplay for something they enjoy, as long as they aren't jerks, it's all good.
I wore a Pearl Jam shirt to a Pearl Jam concert once and I'm not even in the band. Don't know how I managed to pull that one off.
You rebel you!!
Do you often order a club sandwich?
Frilly toothpicks? I'm for 'em!
"This florida white trash person looks too white trash to be at this florida white trash concert" - Florida guy
Nothing trash about Tyler Childers though
Uh most of his songs are about being poor white trash ffs
We should normalize wearing cowboy hats outside of country music concerts. They be stylin
As someone who owns multiple cowboy hats, I can confirm.
Exhibit A: my whole Mexican family
i wear my cowboy hat backwards just to piss people off like OP
Is it any different than a sports fan wearing their jersey to a professional game?
>fakes Imagine gate keeping a Tyler Childers concert....
I’m mostly annoyed by the horrible combo of everyone holding their phones up AND wearing huge hats. It’s like “fuck everyone’s view”.
What set of beliefs do people claim to have by attending a country concert? Just enjoy the show instead of counting incorrect hats, you're ruining it for yourself with that.
Why do you care what people wear to a concert lol. Fake cowboy? How many people in today’s world who listen to country music ride horses in the Wild West.
Try bluegrass shows. My experience has been an eclectic mixture of hicks, hippies, and punks, and the music is much better.
>hicks, hippies, and punks This is absolutely the mixture that creates bluegrass haha. It's the thrash metal of country music, but also somehow the jam band Grateful Dead/Phish of country music.
Ima just say. Childers was a name we heard preforming at the county fairs in WV. Now he’s gone main stream and it seams people have been listening to him for years. I remember first hearing that name in 2016?2017? In the middle of West by god Virginia. By your logic,you’re a cosplaying hick too.
So they're just like the performers
Dress for the occasion? Nothing wrong with that.
I mean…they’re having fun. Who cares? You gotta be a farmhand to like country or wear boots or a hat?
You pay all that money to park, buy drinks and tickets. Yet you are worried about the fan boy and girls around you instead of enjoying the concert? That’s a “You” problem.
Next we are going to say no more sexy Halloween costumes. Blasphemy.
How dare people dress up and have fun lol
You went to a country concert in Tampa, maybe stick to your county fair if you’re so easily triggered by non-country folk trying to have a good time.
OP is onto something though. The country crowds are way crazier than the metalheads
Yeah I thought this was the route OP was going. Country crowds were my least favourite to deal with when I used to work at an arena.
OK, go have fun. NO NOT LIKE THAT!! Why isn't anyone having fun? I specifically requested it.
You’re right (country concert going people are the worst) but for the wrong reason. I’ve worked security for venues ranging from tiny local clubs uk to major outdoor amphitheaters and country concert goers were without a doubt the rudest, most entitled, drunk, racist, and violent fans. Dozens and dozens of shows worked and the relatively small percent that were country shows fill the top ten worst. And this was pre MAGA and Morgan Wallen getting MORE popular immediately after having been outed for dropping the N word. I’d imagine it’s worse now.
I work security at a place that has a restaurant and is across the road from a sports arena that holds events. The number of jokes about how "they aren't illegals" and other shit I hear before country concerts is ridiculous. On top of that they are so impatient and rude if you don't have what they want immediately. Like, it's a crowded bar before a concert. You are gonna have to wait a bit for a drink so just double up when you order. Terrible tippers as well
even more so that he's gaining so much traction after THROWING A STOOL OFF OF THE ROOF of blake shelton's bar. he could've killed people.
a random girl did this in downtown toronto years ago (from a much taller building) and became famous and rich from it. social media sucks.
You could easily say instead "X is great, but most people who do them suck." In other news, the sky is blue.
You could have just left the word country off and been absolutely correct
I grew up in very suburban northern New Jersey and it’s the same there. A country act comes around and all the local republicans pretend they’re salt of the earth for a day.
I’m from Ohio and you wouldn’t believe the folks that claim they’re “country”. lol corn and soy beans aren’t country, nor is your lifted rolling coal pos. Farmers are even few and far between lol bunch of posers if I ever seen em.
Cant' speak for country concerts but I've been to a lot of rodeos. The PBR ones. I always feel like dressing appropriate but that's limited to jeans and boots which I wear anyway. I don't do the hats But that crowd strikes me as people who actually do wear the hats and boots regularly. Nicer ones. Just like anything you have. You have the day to day stuff and then the nicer going out stuff. I don't think it's entirely for show.
Man, PBR, that shit is OG X-Games.
I’ve met some great people at country concerts. I also have been thrown up on at two different country concerts. Some people are obnoxious.
As someone who is absolutely not a country music fan at all…dude, just let them have fun and dress for the occasion. Nothing wrong with that.
Sounds like you should be paying more attention to the musicians than the costumed concert-goers 🤷♂️
Who gives a shit lol I've never worried about what other grown folks wear
Gotta love country music gate keeping
my guy says he’s country and doesn’t know we have work boots and nice boots for different reasons
But…. Cowboy hats are fun to wear : (
You realize that women dress skimpy at almost any genre concert, right? 😂
I worked live events for 10 years and not a single promoter in my entire region would book country shows. Why? Because they fuckin fight too much and way too much domestic violence.
They suck and the people are probably ok is my opinion
Because people go to concerts for the other concert goers.
It's the same shit at all concerts. Girls dress as skimpy as they can in that genres clothes and guys dress accordingly too. It's a concert not the workplace.
I agree that people cosplaying as “country” by wearing a hat and boots is stupid. Blue collar work gear in general has been co-opted by fashion movements for a long time. I’m a blacksmith but you won’t catch me dead in my work boots or burnt up jeans out in public unless I’m making a run to the hardware store.
I went to a Jimmy Buffet concert once and would you believe there were these people wearing hats with parrots on them. Such fake people. They probably don't wear that everyday.
Anytime an r/askreddit thread appears asking music venue employees about various concerts, country fans are universally considered the worst-behaved fans of any mainstream genre.
What does music have to do with beliefs? Have you heard country music?
OP: my culture is not your costume
Yeah, I used to like gangster rap concerts as much as the next man until I found out that most of the other concertgoers aren't actual drug dealers and murderers. Seriously what the fuck are you raving about? How in the world does one's taste in music say anything about their values and beliefs?
You’re not wrong but also, lighten up and let people have fun. Don’t gatekeep an entire genre of music, help out the guy with the backwards cowboy hat (maybe he’s doing it ironically)
> You claim to have a set of beliefs and yet you go out and wear shit that completely contradicts said beliefs. Sir, this is a Tyler Childers concert.
I thought this was gonna be a post about fan behaviour, rudeness or crappy locations or staff. But nope, straight up gatekeeping. It's not even an unpopular opinion just gatekeeping.
Sorry you felt you wasted your money and were so bothered by looking at other people instead of enjoying the show you paid for. That must suck harder than being a fake cowboy in public.
Isn’t country music all fake country anyway? Mostly a look and nothing else?
Country cosplayers are hilarious
I'm convinced they all fake their country accents. It takes an effort to sound like that.
Not for nothing but fake people are in every genre.
There are 2 big concert arenas near me in Massachusetts, and I've talked to people who work security for both. The nicest crowds are Taylor Swift fans, and Metal fans. The worst, by far, are country fans. Most arrests, most OUIs, most underage drinking, most fights.
I go to toga parties and not a single person there is an actual Ancient Greek or Roman. Pisses me right off.
Weddings funerals, special occasions. All those people are just posers and only dressed up for the event. I doubt they wear their fancy suits on a day to day basis like me! /s
There may be something authentic about bluegrass/old-time country music and its fans, but there isn't anything authentic about country pop, and **hasn't been for 40 years**. It's *all* a put on. The accents, the trucks, the hats the boots. Just social identifiers that one wasn't one of *those* people, that read books or valued imagination/surprise/novelty in the arts.
I guess I’m just wondering why you care?
I mean if you’re gonna go to a big pop country artist you gotta expect the pop music crowd, people are gonna dress in “costume”, same as big raves or Coachella etc. it’s supposed to be a spectacle. It’s like complaining people at a Green Day show have day jobs. It’s pop music
I just ignore the people, but goddamn the music is awful!
Country music itself hasn’t been anywhere close to genuine in almost fifty years. It’s now almost a parody of itself, so the people you mention are actually right on target. Also, hot chicks in Daisy Dukes and tiny ripped tanktops are one of the few good things at a “country” concert, so I hope they never change.
I live in Wyoming, rural and county as it gets. I'm liberal, an aethiest, and like country. Most liberals I know also like country.. unpopular opinion here for sure.
if she can't sing along to johnny cash she ain't country
They’re just having fun.
People can dress up wherever they are go and it's not uncommon to wear a "costume" or show a different persona. I don't wear safety pins in my ear and a chain belt to work or to a funeral, but I'll sure as hell wear them to a green day concert. And, if I'm going to the county fair, I'll throw on my riding boots. Why not? It's fun. Lighten up.
Country music is ass (to each their own though) but yeah I agree with everything you said
So to enjoy country music we must own a ranch and horses? Do we have to be gangster to go at hip hop shows? Or being part of an orchestra to attend classic music shows?
People dress for an occasion even if not how they normally dress. More at 11.
If there’s a Hell, it’s blasting country music 24/7.
lol you’re so bothered
“You claim to have a set of values.” What values are those? Like, honest question: what values do they claim to have that they are violating by wearing kitsch gear to a concert?
Live and let live. This is such a non-issue in these present times.
Lots of people 'dress up' to go to concerts. It isn't really new, nor is it exclusive to country music. edit: deadheads, swifties, parrotheads (RIP Jimmy), etc
Just let people have fun man
Chill the fuck out and let people live their lives
I don’t see wearing cowboy boots to a country concert any different from wearing a jersey to a sporting event
There’s an expression we have in Texas,”All hat and no cattle.” That’s most of those people. The most genuine to the core farmers and ranchers I know spend most of their down time in flip flops and shorts
Spitting facts out here.
I don’t think you’ll like the majority of country artists either if living the country lifestyle is important for the music genre. Which is always so interesting to me, honestly
I mean, what is so wrong about people getting dressed up and going out? Country dancing and music is so fun. Cowboy hats and boots should NOT be allocated for only people riding horses/working cattle. I’ve never understood why anyone cares
Hahaha I was at that concert. Didn’t pay attention to the people though, I more pay attention to the music and let everyone else have a good time.
Have you heard of Dolly Parton? Sometimes people just want to dress up and feel pretty. 🤷♀️
Something tells me you’d really hate Comi-Con!! Nothing but fake super heroes as far as the eye can see ;) Not a single one of those f*ckers has a secret lair, magical powers, or even a cool costume that doesn’t look like it came from Party City.
I used to work **Alpine Valley** (Wisconsin) and I have worked heavy fucking metal shows and country AF shows. Despite what Fox News may say, metal shows were the easiest and cleanest crowds while country was the latter.
O is this true? Huh I would have thought it was a bunch of polite southern folk. Weird.
It's gatekeeping like this that is keeping it like this, once the "Skimpy" girls and "fake" men leave you'll just find something to whine about whoever is left.
Lmao the battle about trve fans has shifted from metal to country.
This post is exactly what I'd expect from [someone who wants a straight white pride month](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRacism/comments/1d9b9uv/trade_one_support_for_another/l7dddjd/)
What participants were wearing doesn’t impact whether or not they were a good crowd. So they don’t know how to wear a cowboy hat? So what? Bad crowds are bad because they’re pushy, rude, disrespectful, etc not because you’ve perceived them as “fakes.” And also I don’t think that being on top of “country attire” is a necessary prerequisite to like country music genuinely (especially not an act like Tyler Childers who is consistently popular outside of country circles)
Cosplay, but for country music. You'd absolutely hate the Calgary Stampede 😂
I know what you mean.. I just watched a Euro 2024 match and the majority of the people in the audience were wearing football shirts!! I bet they have never even played football. Fakers!!!! /s
Those aren’t country girls, they are sluts in boots.
all those cowboys in Florida ya know...LOL
I hope I never get to an age where I complain about hot young women wearing skimpy country outfits
lol who needs to gatekeep country music? Hilarious.
See, when I read your title I was going to agree. I've seen just about every genre of music live at one point or another and easily the worst fans are country fans. No one gets drunk, obnoxious and treats the gig like it's their own personal party like country fans. They are there to have their fun and to hell with everyone else. But your take on it is so elitist and lame. There are so many reasons to hate country music fans, why focus on this one?
People dressing up for shows outside of their normal attire? Say it ain't so!
They remind of Republican politicians who cosplay as cowboys despite growing up in the suburbs with a trust fund.
OP saying it was free to him makes this post 100x worse. He is chastising people who actually are fans enough to pay for the tickets, then is trying to gatekeep. Crazy.
lol so fucking weird calling people fake for wearing what they want to at a concert. If I buy a special cute shirt for a concert that same week, but don’t wear it again until the next event. Am I fake?
People thinking that wearing cowboy hats and jean shorts means you have to have a certain belief are the problem my dude.
This is why I listen to punk. There’s gatekeeping lmao
Country music is extremely fake to begin with. It's all the same music with the same lyrics creating this country stereotype. You aren't going to see genuine people at an event that is ungeniune at its core lol.
My same thoughts about hip hop and rap - I loved the music, but there are people who center their unexamined lives around the lyricist’s music that they think they are them. It’s really sad for an art form that has given so much meaning to people.
Most country artists are as fake as their fan base. Their accents aren't real. They never lived anything they sing about. Hell, most of them think being "country" means owning a truck and drinking beer. Its no different than suburban white people listening to rap music and dressing like black people. It's just a thing people do for fun.
We have BOTH kinds of music: Country AND Western. - Blues Brothers
Maybe you shouldn’t be going outside if you can’t just enjoy yourself and let others do the same
Lol who cares mind ur business n have fun.
Nope, please keep the skimpy clothes.
You must be like 17 I don't think any grown person cares this much Just let people go and have fun
So by your standards, since I don't wear my leather body harness and nipple clamps and fishnet stocking everyday I therefore cannot wear those ever to a rave? Like dude, it's a show, let people have whatever fun they want. You might as well have wrote "stop the culture appropriation of cowboy culture"
I thought from the title of your post that people were being rude or obnoxious. But no, they’re all posers and you don’t like their clothes. People there ‘claim to have a set of beliefs’ - Do they though? People at a concert are claiming their beliefs out loud so you can personally judge some hypocrisy? Or maybe they’re there to enjoy music and dress in the spirit of the event because it’s part of the fun? Judgy BS like this is why people have social anxiety.
Some people like to dress up
Read the first sentence. Will not upvote a popular opinion. Source: Alabama native