[bogzz]

I went on a short camping trip with my 60+ year old neighbor a couple months ago. He loves country. He had his Spotify playing songs for him the entire trip, and about 20% of the songs were slop. I felt like I was riding with Jerry listening to Human Music (from Rick&Morty).

[smackeyacky]

It initially surprised me that Country music was one of the genres infested with Clanker tunes. Then you realise that modern country music is already very formularised in the same way dance music is (another heavily infected genre).

One recommendation that came up on YouTube music for me was Ella Langley and I had a hell of a time working out whether she was a clanker or not. I think she’s real but there are Ella Langley AI generators now and half the music videos of her songs are clanker morgs.

It’s getting confusing and annoying but country music itself might have to share some of the blame for making itself so homogenous.