SLAMMED! Feels like most headlines are written by 12 year olds these days
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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It’s felt that way for a decade
I find it odd that that singer doesn't understand his fan-base.
His politics amount to Jews running the world and queers being child molesters so don't expect much in the way of critical thinking.
The disgust makes sense when it's Rage Against the Machine and conservatives but homey apparently hasn't looked at mainstream country in the past 30+ years because it ain't "Folsom Prison Blues" anymore its "I Love America And My Ford Truck (Unless Ford Goes Woke)"
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I listened to the song with no knowledge that Republicans were using it as a dog-whistle; I immediately thought it was written about rich conservatives, then I found out the dumbfucks had adopted it as their own.
I can see why he's pissed off.
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Why would you expect someone to understand a group of people just because they like a song they made? Art being misinterpreted, or interpreted in a way the artist never intended, is the oldest story in the book. Long story short it's not at all "odd that the singer doesn't understand his fanbase".
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Ignoring the whole welfare lyric for a moment, I think this experience ended up being a hard lesson for this young songwriter.
To borrow a line from Bluey - “…when you put something beautiful out into the world, it’s no longer yours, really.”
I would absolutely fucking love the song if not for that line. I swear I would.
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Everyone heard him when he said who he was.
This is just him saying that he wants to sell another single in the future.
This song is honestly amazing with Dale Gribble AI vocals. It feels like it was from a parallel universe where King Of The Hill never stopped making episodes.
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Ootl... Who is this red head of the woods and what did they do?
Tldr: some no name dude wrote a country song. One of the lyrics shits on welfare recipients. Conservative hogs lose their mind and his song hits top charts. He comes out backpedaling and claiming we all "interpretted the lyrics wrong" and welfare recipients are victims not leeches. Now everyone is confused.
Can't forget the part where his personal YouTube channel also has an extensive watch list ("videos to make your noggin' bigger" or something similar) full of full-on anti-semitic conspiracy theories. Such as Jews secretly orchestrating 9/11.
This is an important detail of which I was unaware. I was almost gonna credit him for snubbing his nose at privileged politicians, but now I can write him off again.
Got a link to that?
ETA: never mind I was having a hard time finding reference to that but then I found this article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/rich-men-north-richmond-viral-conservative-anthem-rcna99698
this definitely feeds into my thoughts on who he thinks the "rich men" are
Ohhh. This is the dude who performs the song my coworker was all but having orgasms over yesterday and was trying to make me listen to - "the lyrics are amazing, just listen to them!" She already thinks she's magnetic from a hepatitis vaccine, and this morning informed me that the moon landing was a hoax, so I think I made the right call in utterly ignoring her and her stupid song.
Oh no... This is just sad. They need a friend and a hobby.
She is a product of her environment. She is also nearly 50.
This guy is also a product of his environment and it seems like his heart is in the right place. That one throw off line really doesn't seem that bad and I really don't understand the hate this guy is getting. The left(which i consider myself patt of but damn) needs to do some real self examination if this is who they're demonizing, over a couple unfortunate words. Like bro is trying obviously. He could've easily just pondered to those conservative fuckheads and gotten stupid amounts of mypillow money or something, but he's making public statements against those people.
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The song title rich men north of Richmond is also likely a dog whistle for other crappy bigots like this idiot.
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One of the lyrics shits on welfare recipients.
There's no way he chose Richmond for any reason other than being the CSA's capital city.
There's no way he chose Richmond for any reason other than being the CSA's capital city.
I don't know anything about this guy or this song, but I think it's more likely he chose it because Richmond sounds like rich men.
Ah okay I was confused why people were hating on this guy. Before I knew that it sounded like "The machine is wondering why rage against the machine hates them for liking their music again."
Just to be clear, this isn't the guy who made "try that in a small town" which was another meme of a song lately.
If I cared, it would be fun watching this guy pick his lane. But I don't.
Beau has a good breakdown here:
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I don't think he understands who is listening to him now.
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