Your Best Girl probably listens to country music. Maybe not. But also, yes she does. Here’s why:

Tomoe: She loves the family-oriented nature of country music. She also enjoys its sun-soaking, hard-working, and simultaneously lackadaisical philosophy regarding life on a grand scale. One of Tomoe’s unspoken dreams is to cruise the nearest highway with the windows down; her flowing mane will dance like flames as her skin soaks in the sunlight, and her ears soak in those blissful country tunes.

Himari: She cannot resist the genre’s men and their abounding hopeless romanticisms. In some of her more forbidden dreams, she envisions hearing an acoustic guitar being strummed away as she attempts to sleep. Tense and quiet as can be, she locates the source of the sound—there, standing outside her window, is her friend Tomoe, who would like to be more than a friend perhaps. With a brown fedora and a golden belt that glistens with the moon’s soul, Tomoe sits atop a red pickup truck. She sings of fantasies that ought go unspoken, and talks of taking Himari for a night out on the town—even cutting a rug or two, as it were. As Himari reaches out to answer the call of the country life, she awakes in a cold sweat. Will her yee ever be hawed? Quoth the raven—“erm, probably not.”

Hina: She is not aware of, nor will she likely ever regard, the mainstream popularity of acting like country music is terrible. For her, country music is a multifaceted thing that is as much of an enjoyable genre of music, as it is an opportunity for social observation. People tend to let their guards down whilst amid those loud guitars, country twangs, and clanging drums—Hina finds that there are few better times to pick up on the subtler (or louder, either will suffice) nuances of the human soul. These deeper motivations aside, Hina is never one to shirk her due diligence at any party, and country music is a proven conductor for levity.

Ako: Now that she has found out about Tomoe’s love for the genre, she cannot help but discern all of its innate qualities that make it cool. Qualities such as… well… it’s a matter more complex than what her vocabulary has the capacity to articulate. Rest assured, however, that “more than anyone else in the history of humanity, and more than any creature lurking in the great depths of the darkness below” (verbatim), Ako understands why country music is cool.

Lisa: Her secret regard for being traditional makes country music all but the easiest of listening. Lyrics which speak of doing right, whether that be by one’s family, one’s lover, or one’s pickup truck and/or horse, never fail to stir up Lisa’s sense of duty. She dreams about few things more than putting on her best dress and showing how brutal of a rug she can truly cut. If only Yukina can be less of a stick in the mud about dancing…

Ran: Much as the streak in her red hair seems to suggest, Ran has a penchant for passion. Such is her passion, that she often identifies with the… other side, as it were, of country music: the muscle-bound, gun-toting, neck-breaking, tire-slashing women. Unbeknownst to everyone, Ran has been teaching herself all but the full spectrum of southern American vernacular, and has come to pen more than a handful of popular country songs as a ghostwriter. She sees her father as one of the few good men who refrain from cheating, and uses her anonymously-earned money to invest in the flower shop. If he ever asks her about where the money comes from, she just says that the band has been doing well as of late.

Arisa: Unlike the others listed here, Arisa claims to dislike country music. In fact, per her words, she hardly knows the genre. When questioned regarding the corroborative (and separately obtained) testimonies of her bandmates having caught Arisa listening to country music, she stoutly insisted that the music seems to affect her bonsai plants in a positive manner. She has yet to provide any further insight on the matter. Further complicating this is that the author, as of late, has received a plethora of letters, all aggressively declaring that Arisa does not like country music, as well as implying the threat of violence should the topic be pushed any further.