bro-country

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Etymology

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From bro +‎ country, after brostep.

Noun

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bro-country (uncountable)

  1. (music) A subgenre of mainstream country music originating in the 2010s, influenced by hip hop, hard rock and electronica.
    • 2013 August 11, Jody Rosen, “Jody Rosen on the Rise of Bro-Country”, in New York Magazine[1]:
      In short, “Cruise” is bro-country: music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude.
    • 2018, Bill C. Malone, Tracey E. W. Laird, Country Music USA, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 547:
      Instead, bro country songs string together a formulaic subset of tropes about beer sipping, truck driving, sunglasses wearing, unpaved roads, and tanned girls in shorts, typically building to a predictable catchphrase singsong chorus.

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