Why This Blog Exists

The inspiration for this blog is The Hard Times News. For those not familiar, Hard Times is a blog that centers around the punk music scene. In my opinion, they are some of the funniest people going on the internet these days. They produce hilarious satirical articles about anything and everything, ranging from ranked lists like which NHL mascots are most likely to kick your ass to commentary on the cultures and content of the punk scene. As a novice fan of that genre, I can say you don’t need to be a die hard fan – or even a fan at all – of that type of music to enjoy their content. They’re one of the best follows out there.

Anyway, after following them for some time, I got to thinking, why isn’t there a version of this for country music? Thus, You Never Even Read My Blog was born. What I hope to do is create a place where fans of country music can come together. I want a place where we can all laugh at some good ole fashion satire and share our love for the music that gets us through each day. I want this to be a collaborative space. A space where people can share the artists they love or have recently discovered. The number of talented artists out there seems to be infinite, as I stumble upon new artists on a regular basis, and I’m always looking for more. One of my favorite things about art forms are their ability to unite. Unity is something that we seem to need desperately today. At the same time unity can also cause division when walls are put up, case in point my view of what’s “Real Country” and what isn’t, but I think that division only takes hold if you take yourself or what you read online too seriously. This is a place where you leave “taking shit seriously” at the door. At the end of the day, my word is not god’s, and the ribbing I will give to the “other side”, or anyone for that matter, is all in good fun. I have my opinions and others are allowed to have their own. That is the beautiful part of this country we live in. While there’s a lot of shit we’ve fucked up, we still have that basic right. To sum it up, you take anything I say on here too seriously, you’re doing yourself a disservice!

While this blog will be primarily a country music centric blog, it will ever so often dip it’s toes in the waters of other genres. If you’ve read my About Me, you know I listen to a range of music types, as I’m sure many of you do. Regardless of the genre, most definitely expect anniversary posts for artist death dates and release dates of all-time albums, random appreciation posts, and really whatever else comes to my scattered mind. As I’m known to do, it looks like I’m rambling on, so I’ll put a pin in it. With all that, welcome to You Never Even Read My Blog!

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