Had anyone heard of this person?
It's wild that someone that huge can be just totally invisible outside of like their specific culture.
i've been in my own media bubble since 2003 when I quit my last job where folks played the radio and lemme tell you, it's been great. i managed to go like ten years before I accidentally heard a Taylor Swift song
The actual sounds super nice.
But at the same time I enjoy having a shared culture with the people around me. It's a way to connect and empathize with people
One of the guys in the rehab I was at was obsessed with this dude, that's where I first heard him, forgot he existed.
Interesting. Yeah like the article says he's one of the most streamed artists, more than Taylor Swift ffs, but I hadn't heard of him and I doubt any of my friends have
He's got this pop country thing going on where he sounds more pop than country, I guess that's the appeal, but I'm not a music head.
He has an odd face. At least in the rap song with Lil Durk. His voice tries to be this moody, aggressive sound but he just looks like :jetstream-troll:
I checked out of most popular media during the Iraq War when torture apologia like Hostel and shows like '24' were all the rage
Oh - this guy...
[In] a video filmed in January 2021, in the thick of the Dangerous album release, the singer drunkenly shouted the N-word at friends outside his Tennessee home. Condemnation, especially mere months after nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, was swift, though temporary. His label put him on indefinite hiatus (“such behavior will not be tolerated”), Country Music Television removed his appearance from their platforms, and he was disqualified from the 2021 Grammys and the Academy of Country Music Awards.
he came back from this by doing a song with lil durk and it actually worked LMAO
He probably sounds like shit. I'm gonna bet my reputation he sounds like complete fucking shit
I'm stealing this description from Todd in the Shadows, but his big song right now "Last night" sounds like Maroon 5 but southern.
I've never heard anything by him but I'd imagine it like how back in the 40's and 50's black music was stolen by white musicians to make it palatable to sell to white people. But this time it's slightly less explicitly racialized and it's just taking popular and 'urban' music and making it palatable to rural audiences
He's huge in the flyover states and rural areas. A lot of women in those areas love his shit.
Yes I have heard of him
Want to know something really fucking funny?
He was recorded saying the N word and it got leaked (2021). He “apologized” and donated some money to some black organizations. Then a year later he made a song with rapper Lil Durk lmao. The comments aren’t even about him being rehabilitated, it’s about how cancel culture has gone too far and how racism has ended because a black guy and a white guy made a song together.
Gorgeous song. If this song was around prior to the Woke, we'd all be sick of it by now. EVERYBODY would know it like they do the alphabet. This Song is slick. A masterpiece blend of two genres that are unlikely to sit down and give the other sound a chance. If it were any other previous decade, Broadway Girls would be a powerful amends to the damage instigated by the wick onTodd in the Shadows made a lengthy video about him that I found very interesting despite the fact that I never listened to any of his songs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3_xxkHNZK8
That song “last night” sounds like it’s about domestic abuse, but from the perspective of the abuser
