On The Furor Over Blake Shelton’s Song “Minimum Wage”
Look, I’ve made an entire career out of rearing back and reefing guys like Blake Shelton and their bad “country” songs square in the nuts. But the flack he is receiving over this dumb “Minimum Wage” song is completely unfounded and inappropriate. It is an embarrassment to the spirited and necessary criticism of pop country in all of its acrid incarnations to go apoplectic over this song for the stupid and mealy-mouthed reasons these uptight brunch moms are citing, and they need to uninsert the sticks up their asses post haste, and move on to something of actual importance.
The latest social media-fabricated furor ensued after Blake Shelton made a surprise appearance on NBC’s New Years Eve extravaganza with Carson Daily, and premiered the video for a currently-unreleased new song called “Minimum Wage.”
“You can make a six pack on the carpet, taste like a million dollar bill. You can make a one bedroom apartment, feel like a house up on the hill. You can make my truck out in the driveway, roll like a cleaned up Cadillac. Girl, lookin’ at you lookin’ at me that way, can make a man feel rich on minimum wage.“
Those were lyrics I found on the Internet. I haven’t even heard the whole thing yet, and neither have many of the folks complaining about it. They just know it’s a popular sentiment to take on Twitter to rack up likes and retweets to get that sweet, sweet dopamine rush social media addicts crave.
The assertion here is that millionaire Blake Shelton is being both tone-deaf and insensitive by talking about feeling rich on minimum wage while so many are struggling right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And hey, it’s not like this is a stance that doesn’t have some very minor semblance of merit.
But my God, to make this into the most important topic of the last week in country music and entertainment is an embarrassment. Dozens of outlets have taken the same original handful of a half dozen angry tweets from Internet Karens, and used them as the premise for articles. Not only are folks embarrassing themselves by calling for the cancellation of Blake Shelton and this song, but the institution of journalism is embarrassing itself by playing ball.
Yeah I’m mad about this song. I’m mad that a bunch of uptight busybodies are making me have to defend Blake Shelton and a song that talks about “tasting” a million dollar bill. I mean, those don’t even exist. And even if they did, the last thing you need to be doing in a pandemic is putting your tongue on money.
But the jokes on you if you’re taking this song literally, and from the perspective of Blake Shelton personally. Did Johnny Cash really shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die? No, he didn’t. Was John Fogerty really “Born on the Bayou?” No, he was born and raised in Berkeley. Get the fuck over it, it’s called a story.
Sure, authenticity in music should matter, especially in country. And far be it from be to defend the honor of Blake Shelton’s authenticity. But this song is simply about centering the audience’s perspective on how love is always more important than money. Sure, tell that to the mother of three trying to pay rent while working 2nd shift at McDonald’s. But is that Blake Shelton’s fault? Frankly, during a pandemic when so many folks are hurting is probably the best time to underscore the importance of love, especially while the forces of division attempt to sow envy in so many to divide us politically.
The problem with money is you can always have more of it. It never solves all of your problems, and it never imparts the most important element in life, which is happiness. And see, here I am now trying to spread fortune cookie wisdom based off the premise of a stupid Blake Shelton song that I haven’t even heard yet.
How about with so many hurting, with a pandemic raging, and many scraping to get by, we focus on being outraged about more important things, like all those state and local health officials who forbade so many from working their jobs—minimum wage or otherwise—turning around and taking 10 days off over the Holidays instead of getting vaccines into arms? But we don’t dare criticize them because they don’t make as good of a punching bag as a rich country star.
You want to rage against a country song tone deaf to this place and time, pull up Luke Bryan’s “One Margarita.” Once we actually hear the full-blown studio effort of Blake Shelton’s “Minimum Wage,” perhaps I’ll take a big smelly shit on it myself. But now that everyone has a Twitter account, it’s amateur hour, and it’s not helping matters, it’s hurting by being outraged and uptight over the most minor of issues to the point where people tune out worthy criticism of these artists and country music’s institutions when it’s truly warranted.
It’s a pop country song. It’s harmless. What’s harmful is the infuriated nature so many take towards any perceived slight against their moral position. We are fit to be tied over “Minimum Wage.” Yet “Wet Ass Pussy” is deemed to be so prophetic and empowering, it was named the #1 song in all of 2020 according to Rolling Stone and NPR. Then when Cardi B says she won’t play if for her two-year-old daughter because it’s inappropriate, the Twitter mob comes after her too. See how this works? Sure, watching Ben Shapiro recite the “WAP” lyrics and getting outraged is laughable. But guess what, so are you when you make such a big deal over a Blake Shelton song you probably haven’t even heard yet.
Stop it.
January 5, 2021 @ 11:29 am
I’m headed over to twitter now to see what the fuss is about. lol
Check out Modern Day Merle by Clayton Smalley.
January 5, 2021 @ 11:29 am
Just what I needed to liven up my day. A good, old-fashioned Trigger rant!
January 5, 2021 @ 11:34 am
Interestingly, I was born the Bay Area and always wondered about Born On The Bayou since Fogerty’s first band was my dad’s High School dance band in EL Cerrito. It was an early instance where I learned lyrics can be true even if they are not literally so.
I’m willing to wager the song gets pulled before it ever get released. This seems to be the new tradition.
Also I still can’t figure out WHY people give the DAMN internet so much weight. If you were to meet these keyboard warriors in real life would they say this stuff to your face, probably not. And yet in real life people are apologizing to them.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:06 pm
To that point, Blake Shelton was born in Ada, Oklahoma. At last census, Ada’s per capita income was $14,666. 21.4% of the population were below the poverty line.
Again, I’m not trying to portray Blake Shelton as the best person to sing a song like this. But come on.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:46 pm
Relatedly, Lodi was always one of my favorite CCR songs.
I always wondered where exactly Lodi was, and after researching it, found that it was a small town Fogerty had never been to. He just thought the name sounded cool in the rhyme scheme.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:42 pm
And coincidentally Lodi is a place you don’t want to be stuck in even now. It a place be end up at or are born in and never get out of. One of those towns. Of course some people choose to stay but you know what I mean.
January 5, 2021 @ 9:13 pm
I beg to differ. Lodi is actually one of the nicest towns in the Central Valley. It’s certainly not Napa or Marin County but its a pretty nice town, all things considered.
January 6, 2021 @ 7:56 pm
The only Lodi I know of is in New Jersey. It’s a suburb of NYC.
January 21, 2021 @ 2:58 pm
Lodi has more than 80 wineries. It’s fun going there for wine tasting. The Chardonnay and especially the Zinfandel are very good. The wineries are fun to visit and less pretentious than Napa and Sonoma. I am sure CCR would have fun if they went there.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:08 pm
I know sound like a boomer, but it seems like there are a lot more people nowadays who behave in an entitled and self-victimizing manner than in the past. Maybe things have always been this way, and this behavior was just as rampant pre-social media; we just couldn’t see it like we can now, but it seems like social media has allowed the amount of people who act this way to skyrocket exponentially. So many places I’ve frequented online in the past few years have become so toxic.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:46 pm
I think the internet exacerbates something that was always there but to degrees nobody could have ever fathomed. The psychology behind herd mentality, social media etc is just crazy. I am SO glad I don’t have kids because the ways it is effecting them that we don’t even know about yet…
To your point about the number skyrocketing. On the web there are no repercussions. As I say you are not a fist distance away from somebody. That tends to keep a lot of people in check in the “real world”, which is why I still don’t understand why celebrities bow down to these types of mobs, most of whom, would never have the conviction to say it to your face.
If I were Blake and had to go on some kind of apology tour my response to any accusations regarding this song would be, “So?” Throw a question back at them.
January 5, 2021 @ 8:24 pm
I think a major problem are the sponsors that listen to the Twitter mobs more than the actual artists. Blake starts losing sponsorship money he starts backpedaling whether he should or lot (he shouldn’t). Wished he would have backpedaled more for Boys Round Here… Ugh…
January 6, 2021 @ 10:23 am
True. That is one place the twitter mob is effective. It is just too bad they seem to mod about pointless things. And frankly the greedy sponsors that pull out are the one’s hey should be canceling.
January 6, 2021 @ 6:58 am
I heard an interview with Fogerty one time where they asked him about the line “my daddy always said don’t let the man get you and do what he done to me”
he said basically, that was the kind of thing he would have said, although not in those words. fair enough!
also, his speaking voice is hilariously nerdy relative to his singing. One of those singers where I know its a bit of a charade but I don’t care because its so good.
January 5, 2021 @ 11:35 am
This does sound like a very stupid thing to get mad about but why do you have to put so much gratuitous misogyny into your essay? Ouch.
January 5, 2021 @ 11:53 am
Such as…
January 5, 2021 @ 12:05 pm
I think she’s joking (hopefully).
January 5, 2021 @ 1:47 pm
I think is in an in joke reference to Trigger being accused of Misogyny and the posts he made about that.
January 5, 2021 @ 4:47 pm
Got it, Bear and Hoptown. I should have figured that. Little slow today.
January 5, 2021 @ 11:56 am
Lord knows what these people would make of Coat of Many Colors.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:48 pm
It would seem metaphor is something people have either not learned or forgotten.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:08 pm
Cringe.
January 5, 2021 @ 11:53 am
When every little thing becomes an outrage and an offense, the less people pay attention to actual outrages and offenses.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:39 pm
Very true
January 5, 2021 @ 12:03 pm
I haven’t paid attention to Blake Shelton since he cut his a mullet. With that said, the sentiment in those lyrics has been prominent throughout country music forever. That’s why us blue-collared folk are drawn to country music. Reality with touch of escapism.
People are just outraged for the sake of being outraged anymore. Instead of putting on their boots on and going to work everyday, everyone is looking for a handout and someone (or some song) to blame.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:28 pm
Wait till the mob gets a hold of Neil Diamond’s “Forever in Blue Jeans.”
January 5, 2021 @ 12:10 pm
Twitter is a toxic cesspool of negative energy coming from all directions. My only ever complaint about the POTUS, wasn’t what he said on Twitter, but the fact that he used that diaper fire of a social media platform at all. Not that this post has anything to do with presidential politics, I’m just trying to emphasize a point about twitter.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:11 pm
NBC needs to play it safe next year and replace Shelton with Coe.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:50 pm
F minor to C. Hilarious thought. Can you imagine that chair spinning around on The Voice and its Coe? And yes, he would be wearing “the wig” . Priceless
January 5, 2021 @ 12:33 pm
Look: it’s been seven years and we haven’t gotten a proper apology for old farts and jackasses
We’ve had plenty of reasons to cancel Blake Shelton and missed our chance
I hope this is the end of his career
They got al Capone for taxes, if they get Blake Shelton for this Who cares? I’ll be glad to see him gone
January 6, 2021 @ 8:24 am
Maybe they should cancel you and your negative posts. I’ll be glad to see you gone.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:39 pm
Trig. I just sent you a rather long post regarding his contributions to the OK food bank, different individuals, paying his band and restaurants staff, various fundraisers for good causes throughout the pandemic. I don’t think many know about it because it never gets written about.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:27 pm
Most all the major names in country music do major work for charity. Some spend a lot of time promoting it. Others just do it. There’s no reason to believe Blake Shelton has some blatant disregard for the poor.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:50 pm
I certainly understand that. But he’s really done so much this year in particular. And we get a blip here or there. However, he’s not being attacked for the song per say but the illusion that he’s a millionaire, as one person tweeted, “making fun of minimum wage.” But appreciate the article. And Ronnie Dunn.
January 6, 2021 @ 5:51 pm
I sent one too. Not printed of course just like this one won’t be
January 5, 2021 @ 12:45 pm
We are in the “Amen” & “Awoman” woke society now. Sure not like it used to be.
“Coat of Many Colors” is safe because it was put out by a woman.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:52 pm
You would think so but Dolly & Willie have been on the firing line this year for stupid reasons. Just don’t put any stock in internet mobs I say. Willie certainly didn’t seem to bat an eye at them. The less attention paid by the media to them the better you starve them of the attention they crave they will die.
January 6, 2021 @ 5:30 am
JK Rowling, Gina Carano and Letitia Wright (who is not only female but black) have all had the Twitter mob treatment. When they’re in the mood to go a-mobbing, I don’t think one’s status as part of a marginalised or minority group protects you much these days. Anybody is fair game.
January 6, 2021 @ 7:01 am
well, Dolly gets a pass because that’s a true story about her childhood.
not that this Blake Shelton thing isn’t dumb. its very dumb.
January 6, 2021 @ 11:08 am
If it helps your outlook, it turns out the “awoman” was a dad joke/pastor joke in the wrong time and place.
He said it as a “light-hearted pun” to honor the record number of women in the new congress, and was surprised that people didn’t get the joking nature of it. A public figure like that certainly should have known how badly that would turn out in a national prayer in a televised event. But that doesn’t mean it is part of the “woke” problem you are seeing
January 7, 2021 @ 1:27 pm
The guy probably thought that with so many unfunny ‘comedians” around, why not give it a try myself in the sacred hall of the people where your value as a citizen varies between 600 and 2000 dollars.
January 5, 2021 @ 12:47 pm
I don’t know if I’m with you on this. Who exactly is complaining? The usual suspects in the “woke scold” camp don’t normally take up class issues. That’s because they learned to be woke scolds on university campuses, where they learn to complain about privilege at the very place where their privilege is being secured.
Fact is, these lyrics are a little bit tone deaf. It’s not reflected in the stock market, but we’re living through a massive economic crisis at the moment. Unemployment, evictions…
Why not let it play out? The flip side of “free speech” is that others get to give you their “free speech” in response. Who’s really being the snowflake here. I don’t like cancel culture any more than you, but it sounds like you’re also trying to cancel a legit criticism here.
Sure, in the grand scheme of things, this doesn’t matter much, but I say what the hell… let’s start a conversation about people who are struggling economically while the rich get richer. Actually that conversation is long past due.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:08 pm
I heard the song on NYE. That is not what it’s about. It’s an age old love is better than money theme. They are singling him out while other artists are throwing their wealth in our faces. Oh I had to let my band go because of Covid but I just bought a 2 million dollar house. How about those vacationing in St Barts? Miami? Trig is spot on about the criticism here. I guess I can’t listen to Billy Joel singing Allentown anymore. He was a rich man when he wrote it. He didn’t work there. So artists can sing about the common man unless he’s a common man? Where do we stop?
January 5, 2021 @ 1:24 pm
I agree we should be having conversations about the wealth divide in America. But I think going after this song obfuscates that important debate, and debases it with petty concerns.
Also, make no mistake about it. The reason some go after things like this song is because they want to systematically stifle speech before it’s even made. The next time a song like this comes up, you’re going to have artists, labels, and managers going, “Hmmm, how will this fly with the public?” The song is harmless, at least from what I’ve heard of it. In previous eras the debates about decency in lyricism had to do with condoning killing, shooting police, rape, etc. Today it’s how how a millionaire can’t sing about minimum wage.
Also, there really weren’t a ton of people complaining. One of the big problems with this story was how the media took it and ran with it using the same small handful of Tweets.
January 5, 2021 @ 5:39 pm
“Also, there really weren’t a ton of people complaining. One of the big problems with this story was how the media took it and ran with it using the same small handful of Tweets.“
This is a key point that you see over and over again, but your average person is not aware of when they catch these headlines. Twitter is the best thing that ever happened to a slow news day. Most of the time the “outrage” you read about turns out to be a few people with almost no followers. Of course then it often snow balls and here we are talking about it. Yawn.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:56 pm
This is cliche and sappy love song with worn out metaphors. Maybe he should been more subtle with his examination of class like Taylor Swift who wrote a song in her mansion about her other mansion.
Also I think a valid point about stifling speech can be made here as well as hypocrisy, if we look at hip-hop star singing about street cred while also singing about Cristal and Diamonds… I mean…
But again I think paying the internet mobs any mind is why they exist at all.
January 5, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
Even in the best of times, minimum wage isn’t rich. So I’m not sure what the current (over exaggerated) economic climate has to do with the impact of the song.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:22 pm
For some reason I always thought Fogerty was raised somewhere closer to San Jose. It’s been a long time since I lived in the area, anyway you learn something new every day! As far as BS, I don’t think he can get worse than his “chew tobacco/spit” song, but I bet this is a massive psntload of a song. As to this flap, I am still urging all sentient beings to stay off Twitter.
January 5, 2021 @ 1:51 pm
This is dumb. I may not love all his music, but he now has to be poverty stricken to sing a song? George Strait rarely writes & he is a king. Reba have to be a prostitute for “Fancy?” Miley is decked out in Chanel is her video ” Midnight Sky” & I ain’t crying over it bc of this pandemic. Life goes on,too. Woke’s A Joke
January 5, 2021 @ 1:55 pm
People who get upset at these lyrics are snowflakes and are the reasons why Donald Trump was elected president. We need to get over this stuff or unfortunately people like him will continue to dominate our world. Many of us are tired of the extremes of political correctness.
January 5, 2021 @ 2:05 pm
They Might Be Giants released a song called “Minimum Wage” on their Flood album in 1990. The song only had three words, was nothing but snare drums and MIDI for 45 seconds, and even THAT is more country and interesting to listen to than any of the tripe Shelton has put out in the last nine years.
As for Cardi B, she’s nothing. As far as I am concerned, there are only two types of people in the world. Those who know that MC Lyte is the greatest female MC ever, and those who are wrong.
January 6, 2021 @ 8:53 am
Aww you mad about Cardi saying she drugged men?????
January 10, 2021 @ 9:33 am
I always thought her story of “I needed to do what I had to do to survive” was a bunch of bullshit. Everyone knows she was making good money as a stripper and living a bougie life too.
January 6, 2021 @ 8:59 am
Wrong. It’s the day people and the night people.
January 5, 2021 @ 2:17 pm
Under their own insane logic, these online attention seekers would call out “Coat Of Many Colors” because Dolly felt rich in a coat made with love. Wokeness is just out of control.
January 5, 2021 @ 3:06 pm
As if I needed another reason to move way back in the mountains and cut myself off from society.
January 5, 2021 @ 3:15 pm
As someone who held plenty of minimum wage jobs and whose first apartment seemed like a house on a hill, I can certainly relate.
Even though I do not care for Shelton as an artist at all.
It’s a catchy name for a song which resonates with those of us who have had minimum wage jobs and who have been (or are presently) broke.
January 5, 2021 @ 3:26 pm
My biggest take away from this is that Creedence Clearwater Revival is a band from California. Mind blown! I guess I always assumed they were from the deep south. Learn something new everyday.
January 6, 2021 @ 10:18 am
Ha I remember where I was when I learnt that. We’ve all had that moment.
January 5, 2021 @ 3:27 pm
Did Dierks Bentley *really* get drunk on that plane? I doubt it.
January 5, 2021 @ 3:50 pm
Trigger, tell us how you really feel! LOL
Good job son!
January 5, 2021 @ 4:09 pm
” … Girl, lookin’ at you lookin’ at me that way, can make a man feel rich on minimum wage.“”
Ok, so like, correct me if i’m wrong…
… Nope, not wrong.
This line is COMPLIMENTARY.
1 more time, It. Is. Com pli men tary.
I don’t get all the man haters out there.
Personally i love when a man knocks the piss & vinegar out of me, just by making love. (As in, the come hither, you better be handing out multiple orgasms, NOW)
Women can be so fucking stupid
January 5, 2021 @ 6:28 pm
“Personally I love when a man knocks the piss & vinegar out of me, just by making love. (As in, the come hither, you better be handing out multiple orgasms, NOW)”
This is one of the best comments I’ve ever read on here!
Way to go, Di! 😉
January 5, 2021 @ 7:46 pm
: D
Why, thank you
January 5, 2021 @ 5:20 pm
Ya’ll there is a 60;s hit out there – I got the hunger for your love and II’m waiting in your welfare line,
January 5, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
This is hardly the first time this concept has been made into a song: I’m poor but your love makes me happy anyway. When I was a kid we would watch The Sonny and Cher Show, which they always closed with their hit “I Got You Babe”.
I know, “OK Boomer”.
January 5, 2021 @ 6:26 pm
More goofiness from the leftist mob.
Bruce Springsteen is a gazillionaire and has been for most of his career, and he writes about being down and out, being a working man. By his own admission he never worked a real job. Should we cancel him next?
Being offended was trendy a few years back, but now it’s pathological.
January 6, 2021 @ 8:17 am
Somehow I don’t think Shelton is about to be cancelled. I think he has survived worse than this, for starters. I hadn’t heard anything about this before learning about it here.
Bruce’s dad was a working man. His mom was a working woman. He grew up in a working class neighborhood. And so he was an eyeball witness to their struggles, which would also have affected him and his sister in their daily lives.
January 6, 2021 @ 11:40 am
Blake Shelton won’t be cancelled. “Minimum Wage” might though. And though generally speaking I’m not a huge fan of Blake Shelton songs (and haven’t even heard this one in full to judge), that would be a shame. The song should be allowed to succeed or fail on its own merit.
January 6, 2021 @ 3:52 pm
To be fair, there is zero indication at this point that this was supposed to be anything other then a one off anyways. The song isn’t available on itunes or streaming, and radio wasn’t given any heads up that it was headed over that way either.
Blake did sort of the same thing with the (much better) Jesus Got a Tight Grip, releasing a video, but it was never a single.
January 5, 2021 @ 6:30 pm
So many of the people struggling economically right now were the same sheep who called for the country to lockdown and wanted to sacrifice the economy for a small minority of Americans. Now they are mad because reality set in.
You reap what you show.
There is nothing wrong with the song. People are just soft and woke people are idiots.
January 6, 2021 @ 10:52 am
people are sheep for not wanting 350k (and rising) to die? got it. more empathy from the thoughts and prayers brigade.
January 6, 2021 @ 12:07 pm
Decisions need to be made not on empathy but factful reality.
The economy and livelihood of 300+ million people should outweigh the health concerns of a minority.
We have tons of data that demonstrate how wrecked economies play hell with people’s health. The cure for COVID will be more harmful than the virus itself. And people will bitch about that and sell away their freedoms to socialist government which does nothing but fail.
Read The Socialist Temptation. Maybe you will learn something.
January 6, 2021 @ 12:30 pm
you know what really plays hell with people’s health? uncontrolled viruses.
but, i hope you’re ready to live in the “socialist hell” you are describing, because the “socialists” now have control of the government.
January 6, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
But uncontrolled viruses never affect the vast majority like a sunken economy does. Especially this virus which really only slays the old and already in awful health.
I have been prepared for years.
USA has been steadily going socialist since 1913. The latest theft just confirms the trend.
I will be laughing when the whole system burns down as it does everywhere it is implemented because idiots never learn. Hopefully, the people screaming the hardest for it suffer the most. You reap what you sow.
January 6, 2021 @ 6:19 pm
conservatives letting a madman go unchecked and unchallenged for four years, i’d say everyone is currently reaping what you sowed.
January 6, 2021 @ 6:26 pm
Folks, let’s please let this be the end of this conversation. Please understand this is not a political website, and I ask we keep the conversation on topic.
Thanks.
January 5, 2021 @ 7:17 pm
I’d sooner get healthy drinking bleach than getting perspective from Twitter. You can find the lyrics online easy enough. Let’s see, the song begins:
“Yeah, I met you ‘fore anyone knew my name
Playin’ for pennies on the dive bar stage
Split an all-star special on our first date in a Waffle House booth
Your daddy was cryin’ when he gave you away
‘Cause all those country songs I played
They didn’t come with a 401k
But hey, I had you”
Sounds like a real bastard.
January 6, 2021 @ 1:15 am
How is it any different to Kevin Welch’s Millionaire as cut by Chris Ledoux and later (but not as well) by Chris Stapelton?
I mean, maybe because those 3 were a lot easier to identify with, but still, its a song.
January 6, 2021 @ 9:03 am
Another good example.
January 6, 2021 @ 7:42 am
Haven’t heard the Chris Ledoux version, but I have heard Solomon Burke’s version from his great, great album “Nashville” produced by Buddy Miller (Buddy was also the curator of songs for the album). And Stapleton doesn’t embarrass himself in comparison, which is no small feat.
January 6, 2021 @ 12:12 pm
What a stupid song to get offend by.
Seriously, anyone who is offended by this song shouldn’t be listening to country music considering some of the most successful singers (thus financially well-off) in this genre sang all the time about simple living.
Jones, Waylon, Alan, Strait, Merle, Garth, Dolly, Loretta, etc etc.
But it gave the chance for a bunch of coastal elitists to virtue signal without actually having to interact with those icky backwoods people who like God and their guns.
January 6, 2021 @ 12:20 pm
I guess it’s cultural approriation if a rich guy sings about being poor. Wonder what the income limit is for singing about blue collar life, and what are you allowed to sing about if your surpass it?
January 9, 2021 @ 9:35 am
Yes. Similarly, if you were a rapper who grew up poor but are very successful, are you now obligated to just rap about your mansion and your Lamborghini? I don’t think so. (However, if you grew up rich it is unseemly to sing about being poor because you don’t get it.)
January 6, 2021 @ 3:20 pm
social media has given a voice to people that pre social media no one gave a rat’s ass about their opinion on anything. If they would have given their whiny opinion face to face no one would have stayed and listened. But now they just post into the abyss and feel important. I guess kind of like what I am doing right now. I vow to not let anyone cancel anything for me, I can make my own decisions about what I like and don’t like. I personally cancel FGL:)
January 8, 2021 @ 1:49 am
raisin gwen stefani’s kids makes me feel like a real dad and the way things are goin with my career and puttin out shit songs i will be makin minimum wage
January 8, 2021 @ 9:48 pm
Thus is one of, if not the dumbest f–king thing I’ve heard about in the last year. And that says a hell of a lot when you think about everything that has happened in the last year. Wow!! People are idiots and to your point Trigger, the press picking up on these LOSERS who complain about this song is even worse. They need to be fired. I can’t waste anymore typing on this subject. These pussies in this cancel culture truly need to be silenced. Sometimes I just hate people.
January 9, 2021 @ 9:26 am
Well said, Trigger. ????
January 9, 2021 @ 4:23 pm
aah, you too have arrived at the Shot A Man In Reno Rule for when people complain about country authenticity.
January 15, 2021 @ 7:07 am
You hit the nail on the head. And made me laugh while doing it. Great article.