What passes for country these days is nothing more than bland Top 40 style pop with maybe a fiddle or something to make it countrified. Like all commercial music, it's about the money and the demographic, not the quality of the music. But here's what confuses me about today's "country" music --

Most of the female country artists can really SING *and* they're great looking, which appears to be the prime requirement.

The new young male country signers are often quite good looking, but have less than remarkable weak voices.

What gives? Aren't there men out there that meet both criteria?

And why do they always have to stick their guitar out to the side with the neck straight up in the air?