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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh please. You people. This song SCARES you? There is no call to arms, no violence discussed, even obliquely.

Meanwhile, let's look at the #1 streamed rap song this week. And I'm a fan of rap, which is how I instantly knew to do some literary comparison.

Fukumean, by Gunna, is #1. Here's a brief excerpt, which I am forced to make redactions so that it isn't blocked immediately by the filters:

[Verse]
F-- you mean?
Young Gunna Wunna, they workin' my nerves
I'm about to pour up some syrup
F-- this b-- like a perv'
Smack from the back, grab her perm
Ice, the berg, uh, shi--' on all you lil' turds
Can't take that d!ck, wait your turn
In my own lane, we can't merge
Suck with no hands, you can learn
Let's see how much you can earn

This is the top one on SoundCloud right now. Now, imagine if a country singer were to produce something analogous.

I could easily go out and find a rap song glorifying violence or with an anti-government bent. I run listening to rap and can vouch that it's themes are not exactly a monument to progressive values.

When I hear all this anger about country music, I can't help but think that you really just dislike the audience, and the audience makes you afraid, and you need to try to justify it by pretending that song about working class woes is a coded call to arms. It's art. Relax. 
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They won't relax because they would rather perseverate over 2 lines in this song and attribute meaning to them that he never stated.  All so they can call this man "misogynistic."  Forget all the rap songs and even rock and roll that are really misogynistic.

Nah.... they don't like the man, his audience, or the message of the song.  They cannot relate.  Remember that you are talking about a large number of 1%ers here... they can't relate to the struggles of the working man.

Best to just discount him and his song than try to understand why his song speaks to millions.  [/quote]

Oh do enlighten us, Mike Rowe wannabe[/quote]

I mean, isn't 7000 people showing up, spur of the moment, at a rural produce stand in a 'town' of 1100 not enough? The county population quintupled Saturday.

What do you need? Ten fold? Twenty fold? [/quote]

So you’re one of those “rally size” people?

Trump rallies were huge until they weren’t. Biden didn’t hold them. One of them is President and one is under like four indictments.[/quote]
Biden tried, but only 6 people would show up.[/quote]

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