Not to sound like the curmudgeon that I am, but I fail to see any appreciable difference these days.
"Old Town Road" --- a trap song done by a guy in a cowboy hat.
Taylor Swift basically changed up from "country" to "pop" with no real need to change gears much except maybe change an instrument or two.
Most "country" songs are just guitar-heavy rock songs done by a guy who realized that the only people that still pay money for physical media (which is the only way an artist really gets paid) are rural folks who don't really stream.
Not to knock streaming, pop or country, but watching a guy in a straw cowboy hat basically play rock music and then drag out a nitromethane engine as a half time show - there's a part of me that wishes for people who sound like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and/or any of a number of artists from yesteryear to come back.
Artist here as "Jack Phantom and the Exquisite Corpse Cabaret" (jazz)
