Growing up, I was raised on music. My Dad played country for me ever since I was a little girl and my Mom played pop music and introduced me to tons of other genres (mostly because she wasn't a huge fan of country, but a huge fan of music in general. See I never thought anything was wrong with liking country music, or rap music, or pop music, etc. I never felt the need to put someone down or talk smack about a specific genre of music because those are often someone else's stories.

I have had a lot of friends that don't like country music. Which is fine. But I also have often heard them making fun of the genre, which makes no sense to me. See, to me, music is something we all have in common. It's like the universal language, the one thing that can bring us all together. Sure, maybe not everyone listens to the same types of music, but those are stories, culture, and experiences wrapped into a harmony and a melody.

I personally would never judge someone for choosing to listen to a certain type of music, and I certainly would never invalidate that genre of music by making fun of it. Because there's some songs that people listen to that it hits them in the soul. Artists have been able to make people set aside their differences and come together through their music. So let's not shame each other, let's come together and accept the fact that we all have something that soothes our souls and that we can all speak the language of music.