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What’s in a Song?

Guest Post by T.L. Davis

Like most of the country by now, I’ve heard the viral song Rich Men North of Richmond and I’ve been trying to understand the phenomenon of it; it is nothing else.

I’ve watched the reaction videos from people of all walks of life, all races, all religions and they get the same emotion and feel their story being told as much or more than any alt-right person might, so the Rolling Stone’s blustering criticism of it is simply an awkward attempt to divide and drive people of all backgrounds away from the song, the artist, because it has the power to unite under it’s message.

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The Irony of Phenomena Past and Present

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

In the film industry, there is a marketing strategy called “counterprogramming” whereupon two opposite types of movies are released on the same weekend. The idea is to appeal to separate demographics and, ultimately, drive more people to the theaters.

This occurred last month when two summer blockbusters were released on the same day, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”.  The former is a film about the iconic children’s doll and the latter is about the inventor of the atomic bomb.

Interestingly, the release of the films began a social phenomenon called “Barbenheimer” where many film-goers would see both shows as a double feature.

Subsequently, while visiting relatives earlier this month, some of them asked if I would consider going to both films just for kicks, or, at the very least, if I would tag along to see “Oppenheimer” only.  The ladies were planning to see “Barbie” all dressed up in their pink summer outfits and they feigned dramatic sighs as I declined their offer.

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Country Music Industry Confused By Man Actually From Country Making Actual Music

Via The Babylon Bee

NASHVILLE, TN — Sources at the major country music record labels confirmed Monday that they were “baffled” and “nonplussed” by a new country music artist who is “get this – from the actual country and making actual music.”

Record executives said the “bizarre” style of country music, in which someone writes, performs, and records songs of actual quality about topics germane to people living in the actual country, “doesn’t really speak to them” and is “pretty confusing.”

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Is Anyone Surprised? Left-Wing Media Doesn’t Like ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’

Via ZeroHedge

Leftists across America have been triggered. 

That’s probably not going to come as a shock to anyone, but the establishment media and woke social media response to Oliver Anthony’s gritty coal country ballad ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ is less than enthusiastic.  Much like their reaction to Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That In A Small Town’ which blew up the charts in the face of heavy media backlash, ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ is being derided as a “right wing anthem” laced with “conspiracy theories.”

‘Try That In A Small Town’ goes straight for the throat in pointing out the level of anger among rural Americans and conservatives when it comes to the chaos wrought by leftist ideology.  The message is bold – “Try that in our neck of the woods, and we’ll rain hell down on you.”  Democrats attacked the song as “thinly veiled racism” hearkening back to the days of southern lynch mobs – But of course, the race baiting tactic is long worn out and no one seems to care about the accusations anymore. And, rather hypocritically, leftists once again reveal their underlying racism by suggesting that a song about rising crime can only be about black people.

Oliver Anthony’s song is much more reserved and seems to take inspiration from protest songs of the 1960s and 1970s.  The sound is also rooted in the classic country tones of performers like Hank William’s Jr, escaping the boring overproduced robot music of the modern era.  Rich Men North Of Richmond is simple, but Anthony’s talent is undeniable. The song is also honest in its observations, so it’s not surprising that the media is unsettled by it.

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No Mas

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

“It’s Not Left Vs Right Anymore, it’s Anti-Establishment Versus Pro-Establishment.”Glenn Greenwald

Karma is God’s hickory switch, and almost always applied with a cosmic chortle. Things come around when a certain excess cargo of cognitive dissonance breaks the brains of those just struggling to carry on. The country has had enough — enough walking-talking hypocrisies, enough trips laid on it, enough Tik-tok lectures from the nose-rings-for-lunch-bunch. We’re at the end of something and the beginning of something new. As in: an ass-beating is coming down.

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Does anyone really doubt the media is the enemy and an arm of the government anymore?

Via The Daily News

Newly released country song ‘Rich Men North of Richmond,’ from unknown artist, instantly becomes right-wing ‘anthem’.

A new country song titled “Rich Men North of Richmond” is taking the right-wing spotlight away from Jason Aldean’s controversial “Try That in a Small Town.”

The song — released by Oliver Anthony, a little-known artist from Farmville, Virginia — has garnered nearly 5 million views on YouTube in just three days, as well as praise from Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“This is the anthem of the forgotten Americans who truly support this nation and unfortunately the world with their hard-earned tax dollars and incredibly hard work,” Greene wrote in a tweet Friday.

The title of the song seemingly refers to politicians in Washington, D.C., who Anthony claims want to suck Americans dry and “have total control.”

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Blue Collar Anthem – Oliver Anthony: “Rich Men North of Richmond”

The raw honesty of it, in combination with the non-pretending soul of Oliver Anthony, is making this viral. [2.5 million views on YouTube in 3 days]

LYRICS – I’ve been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bullshit pay,

so, I can sit out here and waste my life away, drag back home, and drown my troubles away.

It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to for people like me — for people like you.

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true. But it is. Oh, it is.

Living in the New World – with an old soul.

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