To this day, I don’t know when music came into my life.
I was mostly interested in sports since my family are sports fanatics and we would listen to music from time to time in the car, at parties and all of that.
When I was in middle school, I started actually listening to music and became interested in what I was listening to.
Before that, I don’t even remember what style of music I liked and what entertained me.
I always used to judge those people in middle and high school that drove pick up trucks which were always very loud and obnoxious.
I always heard people talk about their truck constantly and how amazing it was, saw people wearing those worn out, dirty, boots and blasting country music.
My town is known for the red necks and it honestly annoyed me to see all those people tailgating and acting like they were better than everyone else.
My mom’s side of the family is very into country music, playing guitar and doing activities that country people would usually do. I never had that much in common with them, but they’re my family and I loved spending time with them.
The music never really hit me until I listened to it on my own and listened to the lyrics.
I don’t remember exactly when it was, but I think it was either the end of my senior year of high school or the beginning of my freshman year of college.
I heard a song by Luke Bryan and I loved how soothing it was and the lyrics actually meant something. The song hit me and it was such a catchy song along with being relatabe. After a while, I started to listen to more and more songs by him and I became hooked.
Sam Hunt, Florida Georgia Line and Blake Shelton suddenly started filling my Spotify and I just played the playlist over and over again and I never got tired of hearing the same 20 songs when most people would think that the songs got old over a long period of time.
This started my country obsession. People started to notice that I was listening to country a lot more than I usually did and while some didn’t question it, some did and told me that I was lame for listening to it.
I know many people are thinking, “Why country?”
Well that’s what I thought also. I’m not this country girl who goes out and wears extremely overpriced cow girl boots, wears flannel that barely cover their stomachs and rocks the cow girl hats.
I’m not like those girls who go out and drink, go to concerts and do those stereotypical activities.
The music just really brought me to a place that I never had been to before.
A lot of the songs would bring back memories, good and bad. Whether they could cause tears or smiles, I loved each and every song for the meanings that they had behind them.
Whenever I’m driving, I’m playing the same playlist just cruisin’ down the farm-like roads that I grew up in. I belt each song that blasts through the speakers and enjoy the long roads full of nature and fields which the country songs remind you of.
It’s an amazing feeling to just listen to the calm, relaxing music and you catch yourself thinking about thoughts that you never thought you would think about.
Even though I really enjoy this kind of music, I still love listening to classic rock, today’s hits and all of that jazz just because I grew up listening to it.
You will catch me dancing and singing with friends to Fetty Wap and taking a stroll down the highway with my dad playing some “Crazy Train” from time to time. I will never enjoy heavy metal or screamo because I can barely understand a word they are saying 90% of the time.
Country music seemed to relate to some of my situations throughout the tough high school years and the first year of finding out who I am as a person.
Sometimes it would even help me escape reality and go to a completely different place.
If you have never tried just driving to an empty field or space where it’s quiet and vacant, cranking up the country tunes, relaxing, and embracing the nature, I recommend you try it at least once.
It definitely helps you escape life for a little while when you need it the most. You will feel something that you never thought you would and that’s what happened to me.
If you are a romantic and need a way to express yourself, country music is the way to go. After a long relationship break up, give a song a try to help you get through your suffering.
I can’t tell you how many times I have thanked country music for being there for me when no one would.
If all of this writing put you to sleep, so be it, but if you stayed and actually are considering anything I said, you will thank me later. Country music changed me for the better and I don’t regret giving a song a chance to sweep me off my feet.