With the closing of Hunky Dory’s, it’s time to take a stand and save country music for all Iowa State students.

Being a university known for agriculture, a person could assume there’s a reasonable following of country music here, but much to my surprise the KURE radio station currently doesn’t have any country music shows.

This is a great travesty to everyone at the university, and it is my goal to bring country music back to the top of the charts.

Many people look at country music as the inbred plague of the music industry, but trust me, rap already holds that illustrious title.

A very important reason to save country music is, unlike the plague that is rap, a person could actually tell what the singers are trying to say and they make sense.

For example, OutClassed (OutKast), has a song called “Southernplayalisticaddilacmusic.”

Can anyone say that or tell me what it means?

Here are some great lyrics from the song – “Catfish and grits is how my flow flow.”

Anyone else confused?

Country music includes instruments (a necessity for good music), unlike those great boy bands like N’Stink (N’Sync), Backstreet Bums (Backstreet Boys), or my favorite, 98 Diseases (98 Degrees).

Anyone who has ever seen the Charlie Daniels Band live understands how the fiddle was meant to be played during “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”

With what other type of music are people going to see the banjo or the fiddle played?

Back to the annoying boy bands.

98 Diseases came out with a hit called “I Do (Cherish You),” which is funny since Mark Wills, a country singer, sang the same song and it was a hit on the country charts.

Before everyone starts claiming I am mistaken, Mark Wills’ single did come out before the 98 Diseases version, although the album came out later.

Speaking of stealing songs after they become a hit in the country industry, All for One did a nice job of taking “I Swear” after John Michael Montgomery turned it into a hit.

Country music can’t be that bad if the mainstream music industry continues to take its songs.

Another reason country music is great is it has a television station which actually plays music videos, unlike MTV.

Do the people at MTV remember it stands for “music television,” not “Many Thrilling Voyeurs?”

Country Music Television has this really crazy idea where they play videos most of the time.

It’s crazy enough it just might work.

Can anyone remember what a music video looks like on MTV?

MTV is turning its programming into shows which have nothing to do with music, but instead entertain people with stupidity. Example – “Jackass.”

MTV does have Carson Daly counting down the top ten music videos on TRL, but that’s about it for videos during the whole day.

Enough bashing on MTV, now onto those people who believe if it’s good music, it can’t be country.

My favorite country music line in the world is “that’s really not country.”

This is heard every time someone likes a country music singer or group like the Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain or Garth Brooks.

Although it pains people to say, just as with every other type of music, there are good country bands as well as bad ones.

Not every singer in every industry is going to be the greatest, but each type of music has it own value.

Unlike other music types, country music is about life, despite popular belief that every country song is about the loss of a dog and a wife leaving.

The day will come when country music will rule the world and return to its rightful place at the top of the music industry.

David Frost is a sophomore in journalism and mass communication from Des Moines.