we really went from "those bastard feds will never get me or any other innocents" to "FOOTBALL MAN STAND UP"

  • Slowpoke [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      That, and line dancing.

      What if The Macarana but for the last 40 years?

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Reactionary country music co-oped leftwing folk/country/blues styles, but yes it started early. Elvis is another great example of it

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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".

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Recent Well There's Your Problem bonus was about country music and covers all this really well.

    • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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

  • fishnwhistle420 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Always funny how white southerners proudly call themselves “outlaws” but call black people criminals for doing the same shit

  • CommieElon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • TheFuckYouOnAbout [hy/hym]
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    3 years ago

    "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

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      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:

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • Yllych [any]
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      3 years ago

      He's not wrong, extreme violence is the American way.

    • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      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.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    All not-necessarily-reactionary country and folk music gets labeled as Americana these days.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      https://youtu.be/X9M7NWW7YhY perfect example. This band is so fuckin good.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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.

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Has anyone heard that cursed country pop song singing about apple bees

    It blew up on tik tok and it's extremely shit

    • Wogre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Was in South Carolina and I heard it on the radio almost wished one of those unnecessarily large pickups would barrel into me

      • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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

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