That’s because enough people took the lefts boycott as a call to action to listen to the song while left people don’t take boycotts of right peoples as calls to action. Get your right ass off lemmy this is definitely not the place where this sort of world views are welcomed.
Well, to understand the issue, you have to experience the content.
A boycott of a song is going to make it a #1 hit because #1 hits are defined by how many times a song is listened to. And if you’re like, “Wtf did this jackass say?”, then you’re going to contribute to making it a #1 hit.
In contrast, the right absolutely did watch the Budlight ad. But ad views does not make Budlight one of the most popular beers; rather, profit does. And if you just watch an ad and don’t buy the product, surprise surprise, you’re not contributing to Budlight’s market share.
So, no, the silent majority isn’t real. The mechanics of what it means to “be the best” in each industry is really what makes this meme work. Also, the mechanics of what it means to be the best in each industry is why this meme fails.
For what it’s worth, I just looked up the lyrics instead of listening because I hate country music and didn’t want to waste my time, but I understand those who just listened instead. To add to what you said, there’s also the obvious difference in friction involved with going to the store and buying beer vs tapping a link on your phone.
The added context from the video makes the lyrics far worse than they are as words on a page.
What song is this about? This thread is the first I’m hearing of it.
I looked up this article about it after googling the lyrics. Sounds like there was much more backlash after the music video dropped which has now been pulled from some streaming sites.
The bigger controversy was filming at a courthouse famous for lynching and using BLM protest footage in the video.
It’s about threatening mob violence if “you try it in a small town”. Various actions are included such as actual crimes or disrespecting a police officer. It also throws in a line about how gubmint wants all your guns and they’ll totally act on that any day now so buy as many guns and as much ammo as you can.
No, I mean what’s the name of the song?
I’m assuming Jason Aldean - Try That in a Small Town, but I’m going off of context.
That’s it. You missed the part where 58 people died and 500 were injured in a shooting at his concert then he released this song saying “they’re gonna take our guns!” though.
That’s why I’m here lol
I think thats rather a know your audience type of thing…
Silent? 😁
if only it was so simple. AB managed to piss everyone off.
Holy shit I wish you and your ilk would be silent. You’re all anything but. Constant loud-mouth whining about the D U M B E S T shit.
They lost 1% of their global sales.
Which was $57 billion USD.
Not only is this utterly false in every conceivable level, you seriously need to go back to school to learn percentages. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/anheuser-busch-ceo-reveals-backlashs-impact-on-bud-light/456072
In their circles they have been posting daily for months now about this story. To them, they’ve been hearing about it forever so if they objectively look at the wider picture, it’s really a non-story.
Conservatives walking around with magnifying glasses and then recreating the monkey scene at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Well I, for one, am shocked, SHOCKED that a song about lynching would be so popular with you lot.
Do you even know what 30 billion is?
30 billion
The silent “majority” who haven’t won a popular vote for president since George W. Bush in 2004 despite intentionally disenfranchising millions of voters in liberal areas every election! How’s that work?
The silent majority that has lost 10 out of 12 of their last special elections?
More like hivemind is real.
For example: Here in Canada, most Canadians support gun restrictions.
Registration of all firearms is supported by 85% of Canadians, while 14% are opposed. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/crime/rr01_1/p5.html
However, political parties that support gun restrictions tend to see declines in their polling numbers, whereas those that support removing restrictions see a boost. Why? Its because anyone saying they’ll remove restrictions instantly wins over 14% of Canadians, but saying you support current restrictions doesn’t instantly win over 85% of Canadians. The 85% that support gun restrictions aren’t single issue voters. The 14% are. They’re not the silent majority, they’re the hive mind who fall in line and act as one.
Ab InBev lost money because they upset the hivemind, not a majority of people.
LOL, ImBev’s stock is still up over 8 months ago.
Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Also, no surprise you enjoy a song by a racist who thinks dressing in blackface is A-OK.
What’s wrong with changing your skin color for a costume?
Honestly, stop trolling now. He dressed up as Lil Wayne for Halloween.
You can’t in good faith say he did that as Lil Wayne’s biggest fan.
Instead, he did it to mock Lil Wayne through exaggeration and caricature. Wearing blackface is hurtful because it was — and is — used to create a caricature of Black Americans, exaggerating the Black form and reinforcing racist perceptions.
He knew what he was doing and didn’t care.
If you would like to learn more about blackface, and I suggest you do, there’s a good article here.
The silent majority didn’t really participate. What were seeing is the results of the loud minority.
The “silent majority” is neither.
