Country Music is Deeper and has more Meaning...

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Compared to Rock/Pop Most people hate country and like that other stuff. Which I don't consider music. I realize this a generalization, but Pop/Rock music is very bland the lyrics are usually terrible. Why people prefer THAT kind of music is beyond me

Country songs are more clever and deeper in their song craft.

Here's a sample

Country Song:
"You don't even know who I am. You left me a long time ago. You don't even know who I am. So what do I care if you go"?

VS typical Pop Song:

"Woah-oah caught in a bad romance Woah-oah Caught in a Bad Romance
Woah- Oah caught in a bad romance Woah-oah Caught in a Bad Romance'

I can't stand all that jigaboo stuff either.

Eh, I listen to country, and I think you're giving it too much credit. A pretty large portion of country songs are either about hanging out at a party and hitting on a sexy woman, or about getting drunk for the fun of it, or about how awesome rural areas are. In fact, it's getting weirdly common for those to be combined into a song about a guy driving a truck down a dirt road with a sexy lady in the passenger seat (usually someone he just met at a party) and they are implied to have sex in some secret area of wilderness (usually consuming alcohol in the process). Pop songs are about the same, except they're having sex in an urban area (usually indoors) and they drive overpriced cars instead of overpriced trucks.

I noticed that while both pop and country involve a lot of songs about casual sex, there are very few country songs about casual sex that have a female vocalist! The only examples I can think of are groups with vocalists of both genders, such as Gloriana. My pessimistic hypothesis is that female country singers are more worried about being slut-shamed. Or maybe country fans don't like those as much so they never become popular enough for me to hear them on the radio.

I do feel like a lot of pop and hip-hop has too much repetition in the lyrics. Not every song has that problem, but it seems like fans of those genres are more willing to put up with it.

Rock doesn't have the pop problems. I'd say it's the best of the three in the depth/meaning department? But then I listen to less rock, so it might be that I might be forgetting all the rock songs with crap lyrics.

Now I'm really tempted to go through the current top 40 list of each genre to see how they compare. Kind of time consuming though. Maybe later.

I listen to country music a lot as well as pop & classic rock. I wouldn't say any one of them is more meaningful than the other. They all have some songs that are more meaningful than others.

You're killing me with the generalizations here man.

I mean, you love country music and hate everything else. I empathize. I love heavy music and hate everything else. Country being at the very bottom of my list along with the same pop music you look down on too. But in reality I know that I am very ignorant to what most county music really is, or most other forms, because of my narrow tastes. I'm sure you know very, very little about the style of music I like and would likely say it's "not even music" or something like that. But when you make blanket statements making one kind, your kind, by far THE superior form of music when you don't really know the others is ignorant.

And lyrically, how's this, why don't you go post one of your top few songs that lyrically you think is so superior to any other genre. I'd really like to see this personally as I know little of that style...

On the subject of lyrical quality, it depends on what you like. There is no "good". There is the quality of the flow of the word sounds. There's relate-ability. There are a variety of emotions one would enjoy. Some like hearing stories in their songs. Some want to hear of common personal struggles, love, religion or hatred thereof, social or political views, etc. It's all what you like. There is no "good", though I think most thinking people can agree on a fairly consistent standard of "really bad"- even if they enjoy music with "really bad" lyrics, as admittedly I have my fair share.