I love country music. That's right, I said it.

I started really liking and listening to country music in the middle of high school. It was always shocking to my friends from home that my family didn't listen to country music and that I was raised on the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel instead of Garth Brooks, mostly because the area of the country I am from. So, I decided to give it a chance and ever since I have been hooked. At college I found that it seemed like something to be ashamed of or embarassed about with all of my cultured and artsy friends. While I still love those artsy people alot I also love Carrie Underwood

. So I've decided to be unabashed about it from now on. For example one of my best friends from my whole life Adrian and I went to a Brad Paisley concert a couple of weeks ago. Dierks Bentley and Darius Rutger (former lead singer from Hootie and the Blowfish, turned country) opened. It was awesome. We danced, sang loudly to every song, laughed with the rather intoxicated people around us and enjoyed the nice looking country singers, oh and their voices. Every one is friends at a country concert!