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Ella Langley -- Choosin' Texas
https://youtu.be/nUsrYVxrDwI?si=sxPkdlRGAxExf_x6

I watched this MV because I think it's important for me to get out of my comfort zone every so often.

Verdict: good singer, not a bad song although I felt I've heard it a hundred times before, MV has a plot, which isn't that important to me but which I know a lot of people adore....but I did not appreciate being bludgeoned with The Jack Daniels promotion.

I'm not being overly self deprecating when I say that my judgement of the song is not worth that much because I am insufficiently acquainted with country music to place it in a larger musical context.

Should I make an effort to improve my knowledge of country music?

Although part of me feels I should, if only because it's a genre that is so important to so many Americans, another part of me can't get past the cultural baggage: the conservatism, the Christianity, the anti-urban, mawkish Hallmarkishness of it all.

I know that this cultural baggage is not all there is to country (I did tune in to some of the Ken Burns documentary series) and I am aware that it is a major current in the development of popular music in the States and beyond -- but that baggage is there and is an obstacle.

More importantly perhaps are my feelings about the music itself. I can only put up with so much of that sound!

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