curious george is curious*

[glass_icarus]

What do you guys think of first when you think of "American music"? Artists, genres, top 5 songs; whatever comes into your head.

*(This is only partly morbid curiosity, you understand. The rest of my objective is to gauge how much wtf face I should make. ;P)

eta; also I am spared from making smitten kitchen's salted caramel brownies only because a) I'm scared of making caramel and b) my roommate made a pan of triple-chocolate brownies the other day. >.>

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[alexseanchai]

Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list
The Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist
The eagle will fly and there's gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue


I should've been a cowboy
I should've learned to rope and ride
Wearin' my six-shooter
Ridin' my pony on the cattle drive
Stealin' the young girl's hearts
Just like Gene and Roy
Singin' those camp fire songs
Oh, I should've been a cowboy


"American Ride" in its fucking entirety. I hate Toby Keith. But he's an exemplar of country music, and country music has made a point for years of being the quintessential American music. Heterocisnormative white conservative Christian American music, mind, with a thing for the Wild West and to hell with the Native Americans (and any other brown people, howdy "American Ride"). Country music's definitely part of the push to render anything that isn't heterocis white conservative Christianity into something unAmerican. Drives me up the fucking wall.

[glass_icarus]

Huh, and here I never think of country as the top of my list of "American music"! Go figure. *g*