Woodie Guthrie was more of a folk music guy than a country music guy, but the point still stands.
I’d also be extremely surprised if there was any, as much as a single (sentient) individual, overlap in the Trump and Guthrie fanbase.
It’s more common than you think. Based on my dad’s taste in music you’d think he was a socialist revolutionary. In reality he’s a “not political” hardcore Trump voter. There’s not an ounce of critical thinking to be found inside that brain.
Yes, except nowadays they wouldn’t be caught dead holding a bud light
Got a friend that works at AmBev. Was telling me their profits went up because most the people outraged over the whole Bud Light thing just switched to other, more expensive AmBev brands. Yknow, because they’re fucking idiots too angry to even check who owns the brand they drink.
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Country music since forever: My wife dun died and my dog dun divorced me.
So, it’s the blues for white people?
Ironically it was created by black artists and just co-oped by white own labels.
Not entirely true.
The Dixie Chicks apologized for Bush and conservatives responded how they always do, by burning Dixie Chicks records and shirts.
Conservatives were more upstanding before Reagan.
Actually, I wonder how much of the problems we attribute to 9/11 can be traced back to the Reagan administration.
Conservatives were more upstanding before Reagan.
Were they though?
Segregation has entered the chat.
This doesn’t get said enough:
Fuck Reagan
Typical conservative cancel culture lol
I feel like pre-9/11 country had heavy influence from folk music. However, post-9/11 country got a lot more influence from current events and current world political climate. A redneck hiphop scene essentially (as hiphop has a long standing history of being vocal on social issues)
Inflexible, defensively aggressive knuckle-draggers.
“wHy DoN’t ThE wOrLd LoVe Me? (also, I hate everyone who doesn’t look and think exactly like me)”This is so true. I liked 90s country but after it became hyper-nationalist post-9/11 I couldn’t stand it anymore. It wasn’t like there weren’t patriotic sounding songs before then but some of it was pseudo-countryfried rock and heavily subversive. There was this “fuck The Man” vibe in many songs. Still lots of breakup songs, longing songs, and the twangy equivalent of bubblegum pop - it wasn’t all anti-establishment.
Then it became all Toby Keith drunk asshole bootlicking bullshit and I noped tf right out.
