I just had a reminder that I'm getting old...

[Archae]

I saw a list of the winners at the County Music Association, and didn't know ANY of them!

[mysuzuki2]

1. Don't worry.

You're not missing a thing.

[lpbk2713]

2. I was looking at the TV listings recently.

And I saw where some country music award show was being held in Las Vegas.

It occurred to me then that country music and I are now officially 180° apart.

[bigwillq]

3. I probably wouldn't know most of them either

And I don't consider myself old.

[cemaphonic]

4. The Nashville establishment stuff is just 80s arena rock with a pedal steel.

Plenty of current bands playing good country/traditional music around these days, just not on Clear Channel.

Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings, Jason Isobel, Old Crow Medicine Show, Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops (and spinoff solo acts) Sturgill Simpson, Allen Thompson, etc.

[Wounded Bear]

5. The first time I really felt old...

was the first time I realized I was older than the President.

[Archae]

7. Same here!

I was born in 1959, Obama was born in 1961.

[Odin2005]

6. Country, nowadays, is just rock music with a Southern accent and a banjo.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. I wouldn't know them either. But that's not because I'm old

(although I am), but because I really, really hate country music. For me it's auditory tear gas.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Me, too.

If I see somebody in a cowboy hat, I change the channel!

[davidpdx]

10. I found my first grey hair

It is depressing.

[shenmue]

11. That happens to me, too

[lunatica]

12. I don't consider myself old. I consider myself better

It makes me look forward with enthusiasm to my future self and not backwards in sorrow for not being younger.