we really went from "those bastard feds will never get me or any other innocents" to "FOOTBALL MAN STAND UP"
Obligatory :citations-needed: Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music
Yeah someone posted the link for the WTYP patreon episode here when it dropped. I don't think I've heard the TrueAnon one ( edit: found it ).
Country music fell when Garth Brooks arrived in the 90s. He was the first legitimate megastar that crossed over and became a mainstream hit. He was the opposite of an artist, which as much as you despise them was what country singers were before he arrived. He referred to his own music as "product" and tried mightily to get used CD stores closed. You see, when you bought that CD? You didn't actually buy it. You merely bought a license to listen to the music, and as Garth Brooks did not grant you permission to transfer that license to anyone else, you were not allowed to sell it.
That, and line dancing.
My friend used to get on my case for burning CDs and then beg his mom to take us to the used CD shop "to support the artists" in the next breath. So like, as much as I hate Garth Brooks and the idea of intellectual property as a whole, at least the logic is internally consistent.
That, and line dancing.
What if The Macarana but for the last 40 years?
This is funny as a reduction but a large portion of country was reactionary and right wing.
"Country music used to be left-wing in the old days"
Reactionary country music co-oped leftwing folk/country/blues styles, but yes it started early. Elvis is another great example of it
This song is the funniest thing to me, because it's just such naked and unashamed propaganda. It is completely substanceless. You could substitute anything you don't like into this song and it would make exactly as much sense.
Oh yeah, it's deranged.
It sums up anti-Communism as an ideology very well though. It starts off just saying "Communism is bad; don't do it" and devolves into "War is good actually, and if you disagree then you should be executed".
Recent Well There's Your Problem bonus was about country music and covers all this really well.
David Allan Coe still sells the album he made in the 70s with this classic work of poetry
Sure is hard to figure
How any decent girl could ever fuck
A God damn n***er
So for all you n***er lovin whores
This song is just for you
Always funny how white southerners proudly call themselves “outlaws” but call black people criminals for doing the same shit
It's clearly a leftist beverage otherwise we wouldn't have this emoji:
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Was gonna post the same thing. Leave PBR out of this. Its good union made piss beer ok.
I've always imagined piss to have a stronger flavor than American Lagers. Like, why don't we call IPAs piss beers? We should call American Lagers water bears because they taste like water and only get lightweights drunk.
I can’t believe I found out how great Johnny Cash was only 6 months ago. Marty Robbins is another one I enjoy a lot too.
Pro segregation too. Too bad cause his songs rip. Although I will say Ringo by Lorne Green is about even with Big Iron for awesome cowboy ballads, and it's what the Canyonaro song was based off
John Prine is the only thing that every member of my family can agree on. It's usually a constant battle for control of the radio, but whenever John Prine comes on we get a moment of peace.
Pancho and Lefty is one of my favorite songs of all time
The Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard version is great too, specially the part where Merle starts singing at 3:20
Pancho and lefty, and cocaine blues, are some of my favourite songs.
I want to see some agitprop of Antifa beating up Nazis set to Johnny Cash's Man in Black
He did tons and tons of openly pro-Christian gospel music. It's forgotten today, but back in his prime people didn't think of him as a country singer, they thought of him as a fundie and a homophobe.
"Back in the late 1950’s, Johnny Cash left Sun Records for Columbia. The reason? Columbia offered him the freedom to record Christian-themed music. That was his primary motivation why he sought a music career in the first place."
https://www.countrythangdaily.com/johnny-cash-gospel-albums/
He was devout, yes, but in his prime, people did not think of him as a fundie nor as a homophobe.
Oh you just have a grudge against christianity. Also there is plenty of good gospel music.
Johnny Cash is good?
I thought God's Gonna Cut You Down was homophobic when I was a lib
It was a phrase in common usage in the 80s when AIDS was ravaging the gay community.
God’s Gonna Cut You Down is a 50s song before aids was a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wEdCeJqddI
And as soon as AIDS became a thing the phrase was permanently marked as a sign of a depraved heart.
Gotta respect a guy that does concerts in prisons singing about how those places serve for nothing but torturing people.
"Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" by Toby Keith
American girls and American guys
We'll always stand up and salute
We'll always recognize
When we see Old Glory flying
There's a lot of men dead
So we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our head
My daddy served in the army
Where he lost his right eye but he flew a flag out in our yard
Until the day that he died
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy
In the land of the free
Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flyin' in from somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the fourth of July
Hey Uncle Sam, put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly man, it's gonna be hell When you hear mother freedom start ringin' her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue
Justice will be served and the battle will rage
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way
Hey uncle sam put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly it's gonna be hell
When you hear mother freedom start ringin' her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue
Oh oh of the red, white and blue
Oh oh of my red, white and blue
A mighty sucker punch came flyin’ in from somewhere in the back
it scrambled our brains and every night since we shit the bed
we're tazing our balls, mixing honey and horse paste just to wind up dead.
can't stop cryin' about the flag or prayin' for jesus christ
don't know what we're doin', but we're bombing everyone in sight
:frothingfash:
The United States has never once fought a war where the lives and freedoms of Americans were at risk. This asshole's dad lost his eye for US imperialism, so rich folks could get even richer. Loser.
I was quite young when this song came out and I unironically loved it. The melodies of the guitar and vocals are surprisingly really catchy. But now that I'm old enough to understand how utterly propagandized the message is, it just hurts me to think of how widely adored this chud-ass chudfuck song was back in the day, and still is now.
All not-necessarily-reactionary country and folk music gets labeled as Americana these days.
https://youtu.be/X9M7NWW7YhY perfect example. This band is so fuckin good.
I really like Ian Noe for having written an anti-country picture of rural life in Appalachian Kentucky. Every single person in every song is miserable for causes that every leftist can read as deindustrialized neoliberal America. They're not vibing a rural georgia suburban life of F-150s and Real-Tree accessories that shows up in country music radio. They're smoking meth on abandoned property in the woods because there's genuinely nothing better to do.
There's also Whitney Morgan & the 78s and Quaker City Night Hawks for anyone interested.
Has anyone heard that cursed country pop song singing about apple bees
It blew up on tik tok and it's extremely shit
Was in South Carolina and I heard it on the radio almost wished one of those unnecessarily large pickups would barrel into me
It's honestly so fucking awful. Just a country pop song to the theme of if you're happy and you know it singing about the apple bees menu. Of course it's popular in America
