Why did country get so optimistic over the last 10 or so years?

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It seems like from the 60s (or earlier) til the 80s most country songs were about sad subjects such as alcoholism, being in prison, or (especially) unfaithfulness in a relationship. Things started to change in the nineties and now it seems like all country songs are about having a good time or "how much I love my spouse and how beautiful my kids are". There are a lot of exceptions, I know, but in general I think these are the trends. Why did the themes of country songs change?

― Anonymous, Please, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Money

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the old, gloomy kind made lots of money for lots of people. Did it stop making money? Why?

― Anonymous, Please, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's hard to sell trucks with downer tunes.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

all those pina coladas

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shima.iplus.to/img/al/al000274.jpg

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the old, gloomy kind made lots of money for lots of people. Did it stop making money?

It's not that it was unsuccessful, but I think in the 90s Nashville started making a lot more money with the happier and poppier sounding acts.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

(Not that I think that old country was all sturm and drang anyway.)

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hank Snow to thread!
http://www.gocontinental.com/photos2/snow_h3a.jpg

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Leon OTM. For every "Kids Say the Darndest Things" back in the day, there was a "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA." Today for every "Redneck Woman" there's a song on the charts like Brad Paisley's "Whiskey Lullaby." That's one sad sumbitch.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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