“I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us,” country singer tells crowd after “long-ass week” of controversy
These dummies never understand that their country doesn’t want them. Society grows and leaves some people behind. Adapt and grow or turn in to an old man yelling at clouds.
Well, they also believe that America is identified by its small town culture. But it really isn’t. And I speak as someone who grew up in a very very small farming community.
The thing is that nothing happens in small towns. They’re generally static and full of people who have escaped the rest of society in one way or another. They are not the harbingers of the future, more like the leftover dregs of yesteryear.
That’s the rub. Nobody wants to be told they’re irrelevant. Of course they believe that America is defined by people like them, because the alternative is to accept that America is defined by a culture that might as well be aliens to them.
They are losing a culture war. They feel like they have to announce their relevance, but they don’t understand why that very thing means they are becoming irrelevant.
Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash didn’t act like this. Maybe you could aspire to be more like them, and less like… you.
That’s a rather jaundiced read, isn’t it? Johnny Cash was a drug addict because he was nearly disemboweled by his pet ostrich, and became dependent on pain pills. Willie Nelson is likely a convicted felon because he really likes dope, which has largely become societally accepted in 2023. (I won’t defend the wife beating or the tax not paying.)
Create an exclusionary song about not liking someone’s behavior.
Whine about being excluded due to behavior.
Sounds about right.
That entire song is just a thinly veiled threat saying “we’re going to murder you if you’re trying something we disapprove of here in this place, where we have all the power.”
What a whiny loser
Lots of great folk, bluegrass and Americana, even some good “country”.
“Pop” country is the one you hate
Give some Sturgill Simpson a try, and if that’s too “country” for you still , try his “fire and fury” album which is quite a departure, complete with custom anime music videos
