This video pretty much demonstrates why almost all popular music sucks. It's not just popular country music either, although country music is particularly prone to sucking. In order to get to the top of the charts a song basically has to be devoid of any real meaning. Sure, it might provoke shallow emotionality, but it's utterly superficial and avoids any topics of significance. Also it should be noted that songs that make it to the top of the charts may not actually be the most popular music either, there might be a little manipulation and alteration of the actual stats going on behind the scenes.
Go watch a few lectures by Ralph Murphy - he literally explains to you in detail how this shit is researched and formulated. It's not just country either, but everything on the radio. In fact, 3/4 of what you hear on the radio is strategically chosen and positioned largely by the advertisers who fund the stations. This stuff is about capitalizing on superficial social badges, not music that personally resonates with people. Usually, when someone says "I love that track at number #1", what they really mean is "I love how I feel culturally involved and popular to say I love that track at number #1" which is precisely what it's designed to achieve. Anything on the billboard charts is formulated, redigested advertising, which means it's riddled with mediocrity and simplistic, reused stratagems. It bowls me over that so many people don't find it insulting to their intelligence no matter how unbelievably shit it seems to get.