Is country music bad for your attitude? The mental conditioning coach for Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson thinks so.
Trevor Moawad, who's been called the sports world's best brain trainer, tells Seattle's KIRO radio, “You know, country music is great, but it’s so negative that…we don’t want to have that really dictating our internal ad campaign. That doesn’t mean you can’t listen to it, but if you’re going through a divorce or a tough challenge and you’re listening to sad music, you’re going to be influenced negatively.”
Obviously, Moawad seems to be stuck in an old country music stereotype. Sure, maybe in the old days, a large number of country songs were about sadness and heardbreak, but there are SO MANY party songs, love songs, happy songs, and uplifting songs on country radio these days. How you can you be sad listening to Carrie Underwood sing "The Champion," or Luke Bryan's "Most People Are Good," or Garth's "Two Pina Coladas?" I could go on for hours and hours about how wonderful country music is, but I think you get my point!
Don't get me wrong, Moawad's belief that having a healthy mind is paramount to peak performance (at work, in sports, in relationships, whatever), is valid, and I completely agree. But if we're going to point fingers at music that impacts people negatively, country music is NOT the bad guy here.
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