Pop country is the most over-manufactured, overproduced, oversaturated genre, and its staleness rivals that of CCM, which is why the two genres often crossover.

A genre that was initally a catch all for regional styles from remote or rural parts of the US that sonically blended folk, blues, spirituals, and Appalachian ballads has slowly evolved into a copypaste song blueprint written and recorded in a studio in Nashville that panders to rednecks.