re: Where does the backlash against "bro country" come from?

Seems everyone read the title and not the post.

I get everything posted itt, especially Ric Flair's position. In fact I agree with most of it. Not a big fan of Jason Aldean. Then again I made it clear I listen to individual artists/songs not genres. A good deal of it sucks but some of FGL/Luke Bryan's material is actually really good.

I was asking more of where it comes from. And why the derision specifically of it but not the rest of mainstream music which is all corporate sellouts?

The criticism leveled in this thread can threw at mainstream pop, Carrie Underwood/Taylor Swift, Hip Hop. Its simply marketing what sells. Music is marketed to teenage girls because they are the ones who have always bought music hence the Beatles marketing to girls all the way to the Itune era.

Like I said mainstream country has always alternated between the two extremes of authentic and fake. I think it is better now. I certainly believe FGL singing about being dudes in rural Georgia/Florida is probably their real experiences more than a Conway Twitty sang about.

I listed a bunch of independent "country" music as well in the OP.

I was thinking why that specific subset of a specific genre becomes the catch all for the criticism of the whole genre and music in general. Like it is acceptable to hate on the type of music because of political correctness.

Cultural bias and political correctness is where I brought the point up about Glee. Specifically in their song choices for their straight male supposedly teenage male characters in the burbs of Ohio.