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Prioleau Alexander: Inside America’s New Protest Anthem
Oliver Anthony: “Living in the new world, with an old soul …”
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Hey man, I work hard at a crappy job, long hours, crap pay. You know who’s fault that is? My employer, who is mercilessly exploiting my labor? No! Politicians and people on welfare!
Or, if you saw some of Oliver’s favorited vids on YouTube, the Joooooooooooooooooos!
“The most revealing window into Anthony’s worldview may be a YouTube playlist he curated, “Videos that make your noggin get bigger.” The list includes performances from Luciano Pavarotti and Hank Williams Sr., but it also features several talking heads popular among the far right — Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan — as well as multiple clips putting forward the conspiracy theory that Jews were responsible for 9/11.”
This is clearly a song about the evils of capitalism.
Even if the song writer, fans of the song and the writer of this blog post are too dumb to recognize it.
Lord we got folks in the street ain’t got nothing to eat
And the obese milking welfare
Well god if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
This guy needs to visit a trailer park in S.C. and see how many fat-ass crackers there are on welfare.
I had to laugh at that silly hypocritical line.
Dude, looks like a fat ass himself.
Sound like the guy really hates the South. Maybe he should move to a Blue State?
Where did he say that there were none? Did he denote race? Of course he didn’t but you commies make eveything about race, now don’t you?
Lord Barfington, why would you assume he was talking about Black Americans? Racist much?
Yeah, this singing fella is definitely racist much.
Check out his YouTube curated playlists. Probably old news to you, huh?
The fella is a good singer, but he should leave the lyric writing to someone else.
It reads like a confused conspiracy theorist who has a weak grasp of the outside world. He is just regurgitating silly crap he read on the internet and believes is true.
No wonder the MAGA crowds is so in awe of this little diddy.
Meanwhile, Kid Rock is drinking Bud Light again. Where’s the outrage?
This blog post being stupid as hell: REAL
This salt of the earth man is just singing about the need for another tax cut for the wealthiest and corporations.
All of his problems are caused by taxes that the government will just give away to Little Debbie fans anyways.
A true conservative hero!
Go ahead and drown your sorrows with another suitcase (24 pack) of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
I prefer Bud Light! Great brew for real conservatives again!
If you have a problem with this song and cant see what he’s talking about well you just might be part of the problem. Politicians have sold out our nation to foreign interests and corporate giants….
A tune for simpleton “conservatives” who get all their info from conspiracy sites.
Glad you have an “anthem” now ;-)
How refreshing to see the usual gaggle of commie bots on here to throw rotten vegetables and bullshit at another great and on-target article by Mr Alexander. Gee, where ever would we be without you guys and your twisted logic?
I hope to one day learn if there are just that many commies who like to come here and roost and crap on everything, or are you guys paid, or perhaps part of some USC student union?
So you think capitalism is evil too?
Because that is what he’s clearly singing about.
Over the past 50 years every single piece of legislation that benefited giant corporations, the mega-wealthy Americans who own those Corporations, and foreign interests, at the expense of average Americans has been passed when Republicans were in control of Congress or when we had a Republican President. Every single one.
Now the Republicans want to go after your Social Security and Medicare to pay for the huge debt the country has run up as a result of the massive tax cuts the Republicans gave to those giant corporations while they were earning record profits. How can you people be so blind?
You think there is a difference between corrupt R legislators and corrupt D legislators, how cute. They are ALL corrupt.
I don’t care about Oliver’s political opinions expressed in the song.
i thought the song sucked and i never listened to it again.