RyansWorld: Country Music

From Future

Until the mid 21st century, country music will continue to make a strong impression on conservative rural folks with their emotional lyrics and "twangy" music. Since the beginning of the 20th century, country music has provided the rural folk of Western civilization with a music to call "their own." Unfortunately, this genre of music has provided the fuel for the tribalism that has dominated the agriculture industry since its inception in the early Bronze Age. When the Singularity arrives, people will think of country music as "petty" and "the polar opposite of erudite." Even the rural folk will eventually abandon country music to more erudite forms of music and entertainment due to this reason.

Eventually, the spirit of country music will be extinguished even in the American Midwest and the Deep American South (where it has traditionally enjoyed a large audience). By the 22nd century, rural society will have undergone such a shift in their beliefs system (abolition of Christianity, the Singularity, more liberal rural politicians in favor of globalization instead for agricultural libertarianism), that country music would never be revived again.