I wasn't surprised that his music was bad, I'm just surprised at how many people tried to convince me it wasn't. After seeing soooo many posts last year about how great he is, I expected a lot more than early 2000s bro-country. Yet the same people who openly detest that stuff were the ones telling me to check him out?
Not gonna lie and say that I don't enjoy his downfall... while country still has bad seeds, in general they realize what they have to do to be more inclusive.