There has been a lot of criticism in the past few years regarding \u201cbro-country.\u201d There are many offenders out there, from Luke Bryan to Florida Georgia Line, but it has a history that goes beyond these modern day artists. It has evolved into something that country music fans and non-fans love to hate on.<\/p>\n
This type of song used to be called a checklist or laundry list song. Basically the premise was that writers had a list of \u201ccountry-isms\u201d<\/a> (think girls, trucks, beer, the south, dirt roads, etc.) that were supposed to be included in each song in order for it to be successful. It wasn’t until 2013 when Jody Rosen published an article<\/a> in New York<\/i> magazine that the official name changed to bro-country. This music has been around for awhile, but seems to have escalated in the past few years with tattoos and hip shaking.<\/p>\n Even though David Allan Coe is far from bro, his song in 1977 called \u201cIf That Ain\u2019t Country\u201d can be argued to have been \u201cthe first true laundry list country song that started the whole trend<\/a>.\u201d But unlike modern day check list songs,\u00a0 his is actually autobiographical. Fast forward 36 years to 2013 and it seems that the trend exploded so that every country song sounded the same<\/a>. People were questioning what country music had turned into so they made it worse by listing things they considered to be country.<\/p>\n