"I don't think so!"
Posted on 03/29/2026 2:32:32 AM PDT by Libloather
Country star Annie Bosko is speaking out about the criticism that she has faced after releasing her new song "Goodbye California" earlier this year.
During an interview with Fox News Digital, the 40-year-old singer explained that the bittersweet country ballad has resonated with the majority of listeners but struck a nerve with others, who have tried to frame the song as political, which she insists was not her intention.
"I have gotten some backlash on the song, and I'm OK with it," Bosko shared ahead of her March 5 concert at the famed West Hollywood music venue the Troubadour.
"I think anytime you put yourself out there to make a statement and to say something, people will take any shot at turning something political," she continued.
"I don't believe in getting involved in politics — I care about the state that I grew up in," Bosko added. "I love California. So that's where I stand on things. And there comes a point where right is right and wrong is wrong, and it feels like there's too much wrong going on."
"So, you know what, if 1% of people are upset with me, then so be it, right?" Bosko added. "You can't please them all."
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It is saying California use to be a great place but now it sucks . As a former resident I can attest to just how bad , how far , it has fallen. In spite of the propaganda foisted upon me by the State Indoctrination Camps I attended ( public schools ) I read enough outside the curriculum to see the rot coming before it became obvious.
Just spell her name right
Why is every country song about horses, broken relationships, or substance abuse?
“Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn’t said anything at all about mama
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting’ drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train”
“Why is every country song about horses, broken relationships, or substance abuse?”
I have never really heard a country song about horses, and I don’t think you have either. Actually, never about substance abuse. Yes, broken relationships, and that crosses all genres.
This country song is about California and concepts asssociated with it.
Because when you’ve lived like this what else is there?
I can vouch for the fun in a lot of this.
Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley — Just Good Ol’ Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRt9LrvXDY
The comments below the video are very interesting, too. Everyone agrees California has gone to crap.
Goodbye to all the left coast states crowded yet empty.
You have to win the lottery to afford to get out if California it’s a trap that doesn’t want to let go.
Go west, paradise is there You'll have all that you can eat Of milk and honey over there You'll be the brightest star The world has ever seen Sun-baked, slender, heroine Film and magazine So go west, paradise is there You'll have all that you can eat Of milk and honey over there You'll be the brightest light The world has ever seen The dizzy height of a jet-set life You could never dream Your pale blue eyes, strawberry hair Lips so sweet, skin so fair Your future bright, beyond compare It's rags to riches over there San Andreas fault moved it's fingers through the ground Earth divided, plates collided, such an awful sound San Andreas fault moved it's fingers through the ground Terra cotta shattered and the walls came tumbling down Oh, promised land (oh, promised land) Oh, wicked ground (wicked ground) Build a dream, tear it down Oh, promised land (oh, promised land) What a wicked ground (what a wicked ground) Build a dream, watch it fall down Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Natalie Merchant San Andreas Fault lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
"I don't think so!"
Earthquakes and fires in California are a problem that pails in comparison to the evil collectivists who have seized power there. You can’t vote the evil out because the bad guys have so corrupted the system nobodies vote matters there anymore. The crooks run the show and they made sure it is going to stay that way.
A simple search online shows scores of country horse tunes. Even if the list is off a bit, the point remains. It’s like the physics club in Breakfast Club: Well, in country songs involving horses we-we talk about horses, properties of horses. https://www.wideopencountry.com/songs-about-horses/
Substance abuse is all over this genre: https://www.ranker.com/list/country-songs-about-drugs/ranker-music, https://www.ranker.com/list/best-country-drinking-songs/ranker-music.
And yes, the singer in California is breaking up with a municipality.
Now, I get the love some have for this genre. Different strokes for different folks. But there’s no denying the core of country.
“It figures that Google came up with the wrong result. I’ve often had to find ways of getting around their clever censorship of anything outside the Left’s narrative.”
I just did a Google search for “goodbye california by annie bosko,” and it popped right up.
With that said, so what if the lyrics are political. The left has been using music to push leftist politics since at least the great depression (i.e., Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger).
What do you think about the idea that if we had a reliable vote and count the democrats would presently lose even in California?
I know there are horse songs, and lots of mentions of saddles.
Blood on the Saddle ~ Tex Ritter (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xGGTFfpMY
“A simple search online shows scores of country horse tunes.”
Country music is about a hundred years old, so it is possible that a horse is mentioned, just as cars, trucks, sunsets, pretty girls, etc.
Since country music actually ended about twenty years ago, I don’t keep up with it anymore.
Your link mentions drinking songs, which is now modernized into substance abuse, I suppose.
“And yes, the singer in California is breaking up with a municipality.”
You must think that is being perceptive or intellectual. It is neither.
If you love America it is hard to listen to Loretta Lynn and not feel heartbreak for what the 1965 immigration law destroyed.
Coal Miner’s Daughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKThsOCjuU&list=RDzoKThsOCjuU&start_radio=1
Or even Ballad of the Green Beret, or The Battle of New Orleans.
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