Billy Joe Armstrong would like a few words with you, but I get your point.

Also, John Fogerty grew up in Northern California, but sounds like he is from Slidell, LA.
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When did they start rapping Country songs?? That’s when I said I had enough..
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Around 2002-2003.

It was, and still is awful.

Country sounds like pop now.
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Johnny cash rapped
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You guys are really going to talk about 90's country music without mentioning Garth Brooks?
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Many blame Garth for the sorry state of current country music. It’s a shame, he certainly did his part to help move it along but, he was hardly the sole instigator. Clint Black is an example of another top 90s country artist who had his hand in it as well. I personally love both of them but, the grudge against Garth is too strong for him to get any love from a lot of others.
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I haven't ever looked into the history of it or a holistic view or anything, but I always blamed Shania Twain. Once she crossed over it all seemed to go to shit. Garth was at least country. Shania went all pop and then the copy cats did too. I can for sure see Garth influences in the sisterfuckers now that just puke out word salads with some combination of: truck, girl, beer. And those word salad songs definitely blow ass, but chasing pop audiences are the worst IMO.

That's obviously over simplified, and probably it's nobody's "fault". There are just a lot of people in the US that like and will pay for shit music.
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This is the appropriate view that many choose to ignore. There is just a lot of Garth hate out there for some reason. And you’re probably correct about Shania though, I feel like the music was slowly evolving (devolving?) in that direction already but, she very likely was the one to fully throw the doors wide open.
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I used to like Garth, he had some great songs, worshipped KISS and was a standout on SNL... then his politics soured me on him, couldn't look at him the same way after that

Feel the same about Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley

I'll take Alan Jackson for the 90s win
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Garth didn't ruin country music. His music provided several all-time classics to the canon. If Waylon sang, "Too Much Young (To Feel This Damn Old), people are calling it one of the best ever. Garth's music had some several influenced but he mostly kept it country.

Shania is where it derailed. She was pure pop and it sold well.

I honestly didn't see much of Garth in the Bro-Country singers. His music never dipped into checklist songs. Maybe, American Honky Bar Association, but that was a blue collar anthem.
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I've always been meh on Garth. He's got some decent ones and a bunch of shit ones.

Friends in low places is a wedding favorite of the guys from college.

I never did any of his concerts or anything, so it was all just radio stuff, and I wasn't ever a giant fan.
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I never was either, liked his music alright and just that. Then I saw him in concert a couple years ago at Arrowhead and I can respect the performance he puts on. Guy is a pro and worth the price of admission if you even moderately enjoy his hits.
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I guess if country was going to "evolve", it might as well be a sweltering hot Canadian turning the page.

(Oh no, I can't get "Still the One" out of my head now. :-))
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Maybe I'm the asshole here. I just never thought her music was very good. And maybe it's Dad's fault. I spent ... *pokes buttons on calculator* 4,579,307,511 hours on a tractor those years and had nothing to listen to but the radio and the burnout was real man. I just can't stand her suff. Her and like Jo Dee Messina are automatic outs for me. That bullshit will make me want to turn on Conservative Talk Radio. And that's only an option if I don't have a gun to paint the inside of a cab with brainmatter.

tl;dr: Like every other 90s kid, I'll blame my parents :-)
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You aren't the only one...I have absolutely no use for Shania Twain ever ...or the Dixie Chicks...

Honestly...the more mainstream Garth got the less I enjoyed his music and never really got into Garth-mania.

Always liked George Strait and Alan Jackson....and honestly Ronnie Dunn of Brooks and Dunn has one of the best voices in Country Music. I was a.big fan of Clint Black until he went Hollywood with his actress wife

Considering i am probably more of an old school Country fan (think Statler Brothers and Don Williams) a lot of 90's country music wasn't as appealing to me.
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