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Is Country Music Finally Getting Better?

Alfo Media | November 8, 2025



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Hey everybody! Thanks for watching. Hope you liked this video, and for the country fans out there, I hope I wasn’t too harsh. Yola and Orville Peck are the future of this (once) beautiful genre. Walk Through Fire and Pony are wonderful albums and I really hope you check them out! Ride Out in the Country and Turn to Hate are incredible singles. Listen to em!

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  4. @HalflingMarquee

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    I think the issue is everyone who doesn't listen to a genre always builds their perspective from what is "well known". For example people that hate hip hop only judge hip hop by the loudest and least lyrical. Usually basic club music, and thry very rarely dig into the underground and more critically acclaimed rappers. The same is with pop music. Pop is judged because there are so many medicore pop artists but there are still some people in pop music that make it with artistry and creativity. The same if for country music. Most people only judge country music by what they know which is crappy bro country. There are some artists though that make country influenced music that are doing really beautiful things lately.

  6. @owenstephens9108

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    I used to hate country until a couple months ago when I listened to Purgatory by Tyler Childers and I’ve been hooked ever since listening to artists like Childers, Zach Bryan, and Colter Wall

  8. @marksudworth9769

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    I was one of those "anything but country" people, but Yola is otherworldly, and one of my favourite releases of ANY genre within the last half-decade is handily Sierra Ferrell's "Long Time Coming"

  9. @HulaHula667

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    I’ve always been a fan of Country – and living in the UK that’s not always been the easiest thing!

    I was personally introduced to Yolanda through her collaboration with The Highwomen – a supergroup of some of the best female Country Artists around today, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Natalie Henby and Amanda Shires.

    Brandi’s song The Story is still one of my favourites over 15years later.

  12. @allatamusic

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    You hit the nail on the head – it is the 80's, 90's and recent country that I disdain. All the other earlier artists you mention I like and respect, and much of their music doesn't even sound 'country' to me. Also, when I heard Orville Peck, I fell in love with the sound, and it doesn't all sound country in any stereotypical way to me, just damn fine songwriting, singing and performance. Have seen him live recently, too, and the man's a gem.

  15. @jock5505

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    Fast forward to now after watching both of their sets from Coachella and Stagecoach 2022, they are both now my current favorite new artists.

  18. @thecosmicblueautie

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    It's funny how genres really only suck once it makes things obvious about how much it panders to the public. The new class from Peck to Kacey Musgraves really opened my ears up to most recent country music. If you like Orville Peck, also check out Paisley Fields when you can. Also, Lizzie No as a good name.

  22. @calebhawkins624

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    Two years later and still dead on. The rise of Sturgill Simpson, The Dead South, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and so many others with the age of streaming has been incredible. It's renewed my interest in country.

  24. @steelcity4581

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    Big country fan here it’s the music I was raised on. But the genre has gone down the drain over the last 20 years and is only getting worse. I’m quite happy to listen to Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Kris Kristofferson etc etc for the rest of my life. No one will ever compare to the many many legends that country music had in the 60s,70s and 80s.

  30. @henrysoprano7

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    I think country was never so bad, it sure had it's trends such as bro country and boyfriend country or whatever the hell they play on country radio nowadays, but the texas, red dirt and indie scene were always amazing, you listed Orville Peck and Yola in this video but man, there's like dozens of great artists out there and they're just not being played on radio, I mean even nashville scene has it's gems and I believe the neo-traditional it's getting a lot more recognizing and these little trends are just a bad phase

  33. @ShiftyTribes

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    Like it or not, if you can't appreciate that country has always been as varied as any other genre, and give into the completely unfounded belief that its inherently less valid musically or more repetitive than other styles, you're a closeminded idiot and know nothing about music theory. If you listen to a couple trashy top 40 songs from any genre they will sound like crap, yet it seems like only with country people think its ok to make a judgment on the whole genre like their an expert after this. Country musicians have always been (and this is especially true nowadays) some of the most mechanically sound players in all of music, and the singers are top notch with no auto tune as well. There are many examples of complex and touching lyrics as well, the stereotype that its all "bro country" and every song is about beer and big trucks is way off. On top of that, the amount of input and self writing artists do in country is alot better than many genres these days period.

    If you seriously say country is "just getting good" with a straight face, you are a fucking moron who's never practiced music, never given a range of good artists in the genre a fair listen, and has no grasp on music being subjective. If you think Billy eilish makes objecrively great stuff and shit on country, you're brainless.

  38. @loganfisher3431

    November 8, 2025 at 2:23 am

    In the past 15 or so years, country has been going through an identity crisis. It cant decide if it wants to be rock, pop, r&b, or hip-hop. The fading of genre lines will eventually kill country and many other string based genres. There are some decent guys in the mainstream-Brothers Osborne, Eric Church, Stapleton, Bentley (except for Stapleton). They all fall more towards southern rock though. As a country fan, I both fear and am optimistic about the future of the genre with guys like Peck, Yola, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Colter Wall, Cody Jinks, Mike and the Moonpies, Jason Isbell and the 300 Unit, Ashley McBride, and ton of others.

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