Point is? We know that there’s a shit ton of conservatives desperate for the most disgusting pandering that can be provided. Brown is just another scumbag providing fixes for the addicts. And y’all know that like any pop music, country’s mostly shit.
That said, I do respect Brown or his people taking a little agency for his career — unlike the martyr queen Britney who needed 15+ years of abuse to realize that maybe she could oppose a conservatorship so fucked up that a famously estranged parent who had nothing to do with her career put in charge.
Wow. I mean, just, wow. Conservatives really are going all-in on making America a White supremacist nation.
I would like to think that American voters will reject these people as the fecal matter that they are, but I fear that we may be coming to the point where what the voters want won't matter any more.
There are only two types of music I don’t enjoy – opera and contemporary country – so to say I’m not this guy’s audience is an understatement. But although I’d never thought of it before I’m kind of surprised *more* contemporary country performers don’t release songs that are just “Trump, Trump, Trump, n-word, n-word, n-word, libtard, libtard, libtard, cancel culture, cancel culture, cancel culture.” Seems like it would be a gold mine.
This has been Episode 17,439 in our running series, Conservatives Can’t Do Art, They Don’t Understand What It’s For.
Recently at a gas station in the Boston metro area, I was privileged to overhear “Redneck North of the Mason-Dixon” blasting from a pickup truck. I lead a very sheltered life.
Bobby Brown can’t ink a deal because Nashville is too leftist? I’ve heard some bullshit excuses for why a talentless hack isn’t awarded a golden ticket to Billboard’s top 100 (“They don’t know how important the accordion is to the history of real country music!”), but Bobby, it’s Tennessee, where they fire people for promoting vaccines for teens.
Can't fault Buddy Brown, King of the Kountry Krooners for his career choices. Why, The Real President of these United States proved that there's money, Big Money in being an out racist fuck knuckle.
Of the attempts of rightwingers to provide evidence that they're contemporary and edgy there is no end--I'm so old I remember Paul Joseph Watson proclaiming "Conservatism is the new punk rock", or for that matter W.F. Buckley Jr. writing imitation James Bond thrillers (in one of them Blackford Oakes fucks the Queen, if I remember right). But I have to say that ghetto lyric gives me the willies.
I love poseurs of any stripe, and Aaron Lewis seems like a good-un. His momma is Jewish, he was born in Vermont, and he grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. Was a conventional love-song rocker who never saw a day of military service, and now he's all "Am ah the only wun willin' to bleed and take a bullet for bein' free?"
And hey, Buddy boy, any black person jogging through a white American suburb has a greater chance of being threatened by a McCloskey or shot dead by a McMichael than your scared little white-boy ass in a hillbilly truck.
How does a good ol' boy get lost driving in Atlanta? I can only imagine it happens when leaving Mercedes-Benz Stadium buzzed on Bud Lite and Southern Comfort, refusing to use GPS because it was "designed by queers and Japs," and pissed at your 2nd wife because she had the temerity to call you and ask you to say goodnight to your boys, Gunnyr and Jaxsin.
Like Roy says, these racist codes are a big big part of the "wounded honest worker" trope of contemporary country. This weekend I was singing karaoke in Burlington Vermont and a nice young man sing some song by Toby Garth Cracker Keith Clint Black Snowroach whoever and the line of it was some thing about "how everything would be great if we all just follow the Bible / follow the law of the land, /not the law of the jungle." And I'm like oh which jungle are we talking about, sweetheart?
There's a classic story where someone asks Chet Atkins what The Nashville Sound is. You need to understand that the Nashville Sound referred to crossover artists like Patsy Cline and Eddy Arnold having pop hits in the early 60's. He replied by putting his hand in his pocket and jingling the coins there.
Nashville is and has always been about business, the flexibility required to focus on keeping the customer satisfied means there is always room for "outlaws" going against the Nashville consensus in case the customer changes his mind (ask Willie Nelson how that can work out). THiThe forces pushing Co-Cola and the NBA are leaning on Nashville the same way, but those corporations don't have the outlaw option Nashville does. These new outlaws are just exploiting an opportunity that Nashville is (mostly) leaving on the table, the Trump model of saying the quiet parts through a bullhorn, with a Power-Point presentation.
Today's post makes me want to rewatch Nashville. It's been 22 years so I'm due anyway. And I have a feeling that movie contains Answers -- like why does this genre of music so often seem tortured by politics in a way that no other genre does? So many of its singers and fans worked up in angry defiance because other people aren't obsequious enough. Alas. Anyway, over the past decade I've only added one country album to steady rotation in my apartment: War Surplus by Becky Warren. Not knowing much about country music (I used to like the Sirius Outlaw Country channel? I can name one Garth Brooks song?), I have no idea where Warren stands in the pantheon. I just think that album is great. She could open for Springsteen nooo problem.
"Apple, Amazon, Google, Starbucks AND PEPSI are among more than 150 companies that signed on to a letter released Wednesday calling on Congress to pass legislation that would expand the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters."
Goddammit, where's a man 'sposed to get his colored sugar-water from?
Point is? We know that there’s a shit ton of conservatives desperate for the most disgusting pandering that can be provided. Brown is just another scumbag providing fixes for the addicts. And y’all know that like any pop music, country’s mostly shit.
That said, I do respect Brown or his people taking a little agency for his career — unlike the martyr queen Britney who needed 15+ years of abuse to realize that maybe she could oppose a conservatorship so fucked up that a famously estranged parent who had nothing to do with her career put in charge.
Wow. I mean, just, wow. Conservatives really are going all-in on making America a White supremacist nation.
I would like to think that American voters will reject these people as the fecal matter that they are, but I fear that we may be coming to the point where what the voters want won't matter any more.
Let’s be honest, gun violence awareness programs are discriminatory against people who kill with guns.
There are only two types of music I don’t enjoy – opera and contemporary country – so to say I’m not this guy’s audience is an understatement. But although I’d never thought of it before I’m kind of surprised *more* contemporary country performers don’t release songs that are just “Trump, Trump, Trump, n-word, n-word, n-word, libtard, libtard, libtard, cancel culture, cancel culture, cancel culture.” Seems like it would be a gold mine.
This has been Episode 17,439 in our running series, Conservatives Can’t Do Art, They Don’t Understand What It’s For.
Recently at a gas station in the Boston metro area, I was privileged to overhear “Redneck North of the Mason-Dixon” blasting from a pickup truck. I lead a very sheltered life.
Bobby Brown can’t ink a deal because Nashville is too leftist? I’ve heard some bullshit excuses for why a talentless hack isn’t awarded a golden ticket to Billboard’s top 100 (“They don’t know how important the accordion is to the history of real country music!”), but Bobby, it’s Tennessee, where they fire people for promoting vaccines for teens.
Can't fault Buddy Brown, King of the Kountry Krooners for his career choices. Why, The Real President of these United States proved that there's money, Big Money in being an out racist fuck knuckle.
Of the attempts of rightwingers to provide evidence that they're contemporary and edgy there is no end--I'm so old I remember Paul Joseph Watson proclaiming "Conservatism is the new punk rock", or for that matter W.F. Buckley Jr. writing imitation James Bond thrillers (in one of them Blackford Oakes fucks the Queen, if I remember right). But I have to say that ghetto lyric gives me the willies.
I love poseurs of any stripe, and Aaron Lewis seems like a good-un. His momma is Jewish, he was born in Vermont, and he grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. Was a conventional love-song rocker who never saw a day of military service, and now he's all "Am ah the only wun willin' to bleed and take a bullet for bein' free?"
And hey, Buddy boy, any black person jogging through a white American suburb has a greater chance of being threatened by a McCloskey or shot dead by a McMichael than your scared little white-boy ass in a hillbilly truck.
Fuck these shitheels.
How does a good ol' boy get lost driving in Atlanta? I can only imagine it happens when leaving Mercedes-Benz Stadium buzzed on Bud Lite and Southern Comfort, refusing to use GPS because it was "designed by queers and Japs," and pissed at your 2nd wife because she had the temerity to call you and ask you to say goodnight to your boys, Gunnyr and Jaxsin.
"Every time they play a Springsteen song?"
You mean they are actually listening to *ALL* the words to his songs, and not just the chorus? Maybe there's hope for them after all!
Like Roy says, these racist codes are a big big part of the "wounded honest worker" trope of contemporary country. This weekend I was singing karaoke in Burlington Vermont and a nice young man sing some song by Toby Garth Cracker Keith Clint Black Snowroach whoever and the line of it was some thing about "how everything would be great if we all just follow the Bible / follow the law of the land, /not the law of the jungle." And I'm like oh which jungle are we talking about, sweetheart?
There's a classic story where someone asks Chet Atkins what The Nashville Sound is. You need to understand that the Nashville Sound referred to crossover artists like Patsy Cline and Eddy Arnold having pop hits in the early 60's. He replied by putting his hand in his pocket and jingling the coins there.
Nashville is and has always been about business, the flexibility required to focus on keeping the customer satisfied means there is always room for "outlaws" going against the Nashville consensus in case the customer changes his mind (ask Willie Nelson how that can work out). THiThe forces pushing Co-Cola and the NBA are leaning on Nashville the same way, but those corporations don't have the outlaw option Nashville does. These new outlaws are just exploiting an opportunity that Nashville is (mostly) leaving on the table, the Trump model of saying the quiet parts through a bullhorn, with a Power-Point presentation.
Today's post makes me want to rewatch Nashville. It's been 22 years so I'm due anyway. And I have a feeling that movie contains Answers -- like why does this genre of music so often seem tortured by politics in a way that no other genre does? So many of its singers and fans worked up in angry defiance because other people aren't obsequious enough. Alas. Anyway, over the past decade I've only added one country album to steady rotation in my apartment: War Surplus by Becky Warren. Not knowing much about country music (I used to like the Sirius Outlaw Country channel? I can name one Garth Brooks song?), I have no idea where Warren stands in the pantheon. I just think that album is great. She could open for Springsteen nooo problem.
“Coke ain’t get served in my kitchen”
Uh oh...
"Apple, Amazon, Google, Starbucks AND PEPSI are among more than 150 companies that signed on to a letter released Wednesday calling on Congress to pass legislation that would expand the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters."
Goddammit, where's a man 'sposed to get his colored sugar-water from?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/companies-call-on-congress-to-strengthen-voting-rights-act.html
His next cover: (apologies for the language):
https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/wuoefo/nigger_nigger/