I never for a second wanted to put either Truck Stop or Dave Dudley anywhere near fake country! Although, by Dave's definition, Truck Stop never could or can be authentic or even credible (they've been playing C&W music in Germany since the early 70ies at least, in various line-ups, I even saw them live once when they were still singing only English) because when they sing English they of course adopt a country drawl, but amongst themselves and in interviews they speak German with a Hamburg accent (note: Hamburg is not known for either a sizable cowboy or Native American population, never has).
It wasn't clear to me that the "lived-in" accent thing is so pivotal to you guys. Germany is awash with
Bayerische Volksmusik artists that sing like they were raised on a remote mountain farm near the Austrian border a hundred years ago with guttural rrrolling 'r's, yet who change to fluent high German in off-stage life. Likewise, an Australian like Keith Urban who sings North American country-tinged pop (or whatever you want to call it) can then by definition never be the real thing. And didn't The Beatles sing an Americanized English on their songs yet revert to their Liverpudlian accent the second they stopped singing? Dare I mention Blackmore's Night where a Jewish-Polish-American Princess from Long Island sings her take of late medieval/Renaissance English?
And then there are girls in cropped or knotted tops, torn leg cut jeans shorts plus cowboy boots, all looking like they jumped from a Playmate pictorial where they explain how they
grew up on a farm, love animals, and want to become veterinarians once they are done with 'modeling'.
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But really, is there any crime of dumb sexist depiction of females through the male lens that fake country/country pop has committed that has not been perpetrated a thousands times over in 80ies Rock and Hair Metal or Rap/Hip-Hop vids? It's a male fantasy world that is being created there, a caricature of rural life, beer drinking in the sun on the back of a pickup truck and 24/7 sexually accessible + available 'babes' writhing about. Seriously: What else is new? I doesn't really say too much about the music, does it? Sexist connotations/presentations and popular music go (and always have gone) together like ham and cheese.