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Here4memes said:
He's so correct about 8 million offers from record companies. I wonder why so many artists fight for the freedom to their own music?:homer:

Everyone from The Beetles, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Kanye West, George Clinton, hell Prince changed his name officially to a symbol to get out of his.

Money does not buy happiness in the music industry. It only makes the rich richer. And the artists work harder.

I know of too many awesome bands that I listen to that make pennies because they refuse to sign onto a big label.
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Agree,

Listening to cocaine and rhinestones podcasts over the years has opened my eyes to the industry and some of how it works.
 
Grnd93 said:
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I'm a social media retard. I can't find this tweet, only other people sharing it. can anyone provide a direct link?
 
landscraper said:
I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's writing/singing about what he's living with some modern "country" music influence. Mostly because he doesn't have a record label handing him a song someone else calculated and saying "sing this."
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Agreed, Him and His music seem genuine to me but, I couldn't resist the cheap shot. The way he describes the girl in the song = :grinpimp:
 
WashingtonMatt said:
I'm a social media retard. I can't find this tweet, only other people sharing it. can anyone provide a direct link?
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I haven’t seen…or really looked for the direct tweet. Like everything else on line I’m taking it with a grain of salt.
 
east_beast said:
Glad the guy is getting exposure. I went to college near Farmville, VA. Mainly just good, simple, country folks around there.
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im pretty sure i bought a 4.3 swap for my toyota from you way back in the day. i was in college in farmville at the time. this would have been almost 20 years ago.
 
People are trying to call him a fraud now because he owns property worth half a million and acting like he's wealthy because he had some sales job. Half a million in property in this state right now could easily be a fucking quarter acre lot. Half a million isn't shit around here anymore.
 
TatonkaII said:
im pretty sure i bought a 4.3 swap for my toyota from you way back in the day. i was in college in farmville at the time. this would have been almost 20 years ago.
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Wasn't me. I've never owned a 4.3. Graduated from H-SC in '04.
 
Motorcharge said:
People are trying to call him a fraud now because he owns property worth half a million and acting like he's wealthy because he had some sales job. Half a million in property in this state right now could easily be a fucking quarter acre lot. Half a million isn't shit around here anymore.
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No fucks givin. I gave ITunes $17 for his songs. The message and passion of that seems legit. If I’ve been duped, oh well. One less cheeseburger I eat. Enjoy the fact he turned down millions to “the man” to be controlled.
 
Levigarrett76 said:
I like this one, hard to find normal shit on youtube anymore that's not a production.



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Wtf is up with all the stupid "reaction" videos? Not clicking that shit
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I watched a Hodge Twins compilation called “black people react “ to the video. It wasn’t all black people. But it was interesting to watch the reactions.
 
Gatorgrizz27 said:
What exactly are the liberals whining about, regarding that song?
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He "fat shamed" people they say ignoring that what he actually said was that obese people who are milking welfare shouldn't be eating junk food paid for by tax dollars while there are actual hungry people on the street. Per their own logic, I guess that means they don't care about the hungry people on the street.

Then he alludes to Epstein. Evidently they've decided that was nothing but a conspiracy theory now that they've decided that anything to do with child sex crimes is nothing but QAnon bullshit. It literally doesn't exist. It's a non-issue.
 
Pony_Driver said:
Chris speaks for millions of Americans. I'd drink a glass of (unsweetened) tea with him and shoot the breeze. I grew up poor as shit and have travelled through areas just north and south of where he is now. He's a regular, everyday American.
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WTF is unsweetened tea? Are you some sort of commie?
 
Oh, darn. I'm relistening to this with subtitles in English, and "5'3" and 300lbs" isn't referring to the FJB murdered old guy. I am dissapoint.

I'm really not sure why this is blowing up. Standard conservative sentiment, average bar-band music. I don't listen to country- aside from the top-40 rhinestone faggots, isn't this like most country music?

Oh yeah- he sounds like a bloodhound when he starts belting.


ETA- $8M is well above my sellout price. He's nuts.
 
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It's blowing up because, unless you are a stump, people can relate and feel the emotion in his singing. It's not perfect, but it's not intended to be. It's intended to sound like an average guy playing guitar and singing about what matters to him. It just so happens that this resonates with a large group of people in the US today. I don't think it's intended to make sense to people making six figures or living in a house with more than one bathroom. It's poverty level, fuck my life kind of music and while I cannot stand country music, this song tears straight through me. I strangely want to listen to it more, even though it makes me feel things I'd rather not.
 
subybaja said:
I'm really not sure why this is blowing up. Standard conservative sentiment, average bar-band music. I don't listen to country- aside from the top-40 rhinestone faggots, isn't this like most country music?
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Not like any of the country that has come out in the past decade+

It's a song that resonates with the shit many people are going through. Even if its not most people's genre it still speaks to them

So T minus how many days till a Tom McDonald collab?
 
east_beast said:
He "fat shamed" people they say ignoring that what he actually said was that obese people who are milking welfare shouldn't be eating junk food paid for by tax dollars while there are actual hungry people on the street. Per their own logic, I guess that means they don't care about the hungry people on the street.
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God forbid the government tell people what they can eat or who they can fuck. But go get your vaccine that really isn't a vaccine!
 
Elwenil said:
It's blowing up because, unless you are a stump, people can relate and feel the emotion in his singing. It's not perfect, but it's not intended to be. It's intended to sound like an average guy playing guitar and singing about what matters to him. It just so happens that this resonates with a large group of people in the US today. I don't think it's intended to make sense to people making six figures or living in a house with more than one bathroom. It's poverty level, fuck my life kind of music and while I cannot stand country music, this song tears straight through me. I strangely want to listen to it more, even though it makes me feel things I'd rather not.
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Huh. Zero feels here. It just sounds like someone set ChitChat to back-porch music.
That makes sense though, if people are starved for non-CNN common sense.

kf4zht said:
So T minus how many days till a Tom McDonald collab?
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In for that!
 
subybaja said:
Oh, darn. I'm relistening to this with subtitles in English, and "5'3" and 300lbs" isn't referring to the FJB murdered old guy. I am dissapoint.

I'm really not sure why this is blowing up. Standard conservative sentiment, average bar-band music. I don't listen to country- aside from the top-40 rhinestone faggots, isn't this like most country music?

Oh yeah- he sounds like a bloodhound when he starts belting.


ETA- $8M is well above my sellout price. He's nuts.
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Cool, you have no morals and money is everything to you. :shaking:
 
Elwenil said:
It's blowing up because, unless you are a stump, people can relate and feel the emotion in his singing. It's not perfect, but it's not intended to be. It's intended to sound like an average guy playing guitar and singing about what matters to him. It just so happens that this resonates with a large group of people in the US today. I don't think it's intended to make sense to people making six figures or living in a house with more than one bathroom. It's poverty level, fuck my life kind of music and while I cannot stand country music, this song tears straight through me. I strangely want to listen to it more, even though it makes me feel things I'd rather not.
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This 100%
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
Cool, you have no morals and money is everything to you. :shaking:
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Well, you can assume that if it makes you feel better. I've noticed that the value of money is inversely proportional to how much you have. Someone desperate to pay the heat bill cares a lot more than someone who doesn't even notice when the bill autopays.

I'm not invested in the artistic integrity of anyone's song on youtube. If he thinks self-publishing it will change the world, feed orphans, and free slaves to the tune of $7.5M...hey, great choice. He could have taken that contract money, and had EIGHT TIMES the impact that Mike Rowe's trade jobs scholarship has. He could have put that money in a trust for his descendants, and changed the future for generations of his family.

Or he could score a quick blue-collar slap on the back on FB.

Whatever. Maybe it'll play out like Tom McDonald, and he'll be a freelance success. Tom works like a dog for it though, and "Oliver" seems to have slipped and fallen into a hit. I hope it continues for him. The sentiments need more airtime.
 
subybaja said:
Well, you can assume that if it makes you feel better. I've noticed that the value of money is inversely proportional to how much you have. Someone desperate to pay the heat bill cares a lot more than someone who doesn't even notice when the bill autopays.

I'm not invested in the artistic integrity of anyone's song on youtube. If he thinks self-publishing it will change the world, feed orphans, and free slaves to the tune of $7.5M...hey, great choice. He could have taken that contract money, and had EIGHT TIMES the impact that Mike Rowe's trade jobs scholarship has. He could have put that money in a trust for his descendants, and changed the future for generations of his family.

Or he could score a quick blue-collar slap on the back on FB.

Whatever. Maybe it'll play out like Tom McDonald, and he'll be a freelance success. Tom works like a dog for it though, and "Oliver" seems to have slipped and fallen into a hit. I hope it continues for him. The sentiments need more airtime.
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I suspect he's just going to fade out, his you too vids/commentaries pretty much sum up that he never/still doesn't want this, and he definitely has some depression going on. Can't just accept the success. But that's cool too, the angst drives you harder sometimes... If it doesn't kill you first.
 
Ummduh said:
I suspect he's just going to fade out, his you too vids/commentaries pretty much sum up that he never/still doesn't want this, and he definitely has some depression going on. Can't just accept the success. But that's cool too, the angst drives you harder sometimes... If it doesn't kill you first.
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That's my guess also.

But then, Tom McD pushed through the same BS, and seems to be doing well.
 
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