His followup, "90 Some Chevy," appears somewhat tamer, 'cept for a brief shot of a handgun on the seat next to him (he's from Virginia, an open-carry state)... https://variety.com/2023/music/news/oliver-anthony-90-some-chevy-music-video-handgun-1235712039/ (link, featuring 'toob of the song) B
PGage, to moi, in part, Aug 25th: My initial take is that this is disingenuous at best. Dude’s lyrics (see below) call back to Reagan’s racist “Welfare Queen” lies, and standard Republican bitching about high taxes and federal regulations. I suspect he sees himself as something like a rural libertarian than a MAGA Republican (but frankly these days that is making some pretty fine distinctions between types of snow), and is part of the crowd that is only slightly less angry at mainstream Republican politicians like Mitch McConnel than he is at mainstream Dems like Biden. The equivalent would be a Bernie Sanders Democratic Socialist writing a song criticizing the Police State and Corporate Culture and then denied he was pushing a political agenda because he hates Democrats almost as much as he does Republicans. Perhaps, but his positions are still roughly consistent with those taken by the Democratic Party, and if the song is a surprise hit it is because it is expressing the views of millions of Democrats and fellow-travelers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ecf30d8a-2a56-4dec-9c68-bc47257b52d7n%40googlegroups.com.
