It’s something we’ve suspected for a while, and now researchers have confirmed it: country music can make you suicidal.
Researchers found that American cities in which radio stations played a higher than average amount of country music also had higher than average suicide rates. Only the white populations in the cities were affected by the music – because they were the only ones to listen to it. Suicide rates among the African-American communities were no higher than in the cities that had the good grace to broadcast something else.