Posted on 08/12/2023 2:14:11 AM PDT by spirited irish
Sounds whiny
Whiny. Nasal. No melody. Lyrics ... can’t understand them.
Maybe I’ll try harder later.
Text to song:
https://songtextes.de/songtexte/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond
I’ll just say that he hits on the general feelings of the working class (either Republican or Democrat), that has lingered for two or three decades.
Thanks. The sentiment is very true; the song is awkward.
I just listened and I didn’t hear a single whine!
Instead I heard a young man sing his soul, and the souls of millions.
He’s raw but he’s real!
I heard an American Anthem!
Thanks for posting this!
Geographically he seems to be indicting old “Union” territory. In terms of people: Seems like yankees, carpetbaggers, maybe bankers are getting called out, plus the modern surveillance state. Slips a cleverly subversive line in about Jeffrey Epstein and his clients. Lashes out a bit at recipients of welfare he sees as overfed. Expresses support for hardworking young men. Guy’s not terribly focused buy, hey, he’s taking the time to express himself creatively, and he’s got a certain style and diction that attracts the ear.
Indeed
I agree. I thought the song was pretty good, and I think he’s a good singer.
He’s talking about the area known as “DMV”, “DC, Maryland, and Virginia”, where a lot of extremely wealthy folks who make their living sucking at the Federal teat live.
I think he's just referring to the class of people who live in DC's hinterland which is Northern Virginia.
Executive pay has gone right up with inflation. Blue collar pay has hardly moved at all. I made $9/hr in the 80s in MA and FL. My blue collar dad had just retired from an $8/hr job. He raised 6 kids over a span of 20 years after WWII and always owned a home.
When I moved to MO 12 years ago, $9/hr was a good blue collar rate here. Fast food joints were paying $13/14 and then the min wage was raised so now the blue collar jobs pay about the same. A lot of people got raises when that first min wage bump kicked in.
Meanwhile salesmen and executives own recreational land around here. They drive $70k trucks towing a trailer with $60k worth of UTVs that they tool around in on these gravel roads. They obviously all make a 6 figure income.
The middle class no longer includes blue collar like it once did. We were sold out to China to try and compete with Japanese production. First Japanese electronics showed up, then those cheap cars with the horse hair seat cushions that we laughed at. Then Carter screwed us with oil/gas shortages and those little cars looked good but for some reason, the big three couldn’t make a small car worth a crap. Chevette, Pinto, K cars etc.
Unions and trade deals knocked American blue collar down from middle class to lower class. Trying to compete with people who live in villages and rooms and don’t own land, a home or vehicles themselves.
Those boycotts of walmart don’t look so silly now.
Well said. You literally covered it all.
“Whiny. Nasal. No melody. Lyrics ... can’t understand them”
Me neither. Heard on Bongino. Thought he was black and singing in Ebonics.
“but for some reason, the big three couldn’t make a small car worth a crap. Chevette, Pinto, K cars etc.”
The Pinto shouldn’t be lumped-in with those others.
If you bought a ‘72 with the 2-liter engine, it came with disc brakes and an excellent German Ford engine and transmission.The British engine—not so much.
‘Road-raced it for its three years of eligibility. I sold it to my Dad—who sold it to my girlfriend—who I later married. Bought for $2000, sold it shiny (without the rollbar) six years later for $1,600.
Ford tried to copy the engine design, which fell short...
Seems he’s talking about the corrupt DC liberal ‘elite’... the scum of the earth.
Deep State isn't just in DC, and it's not just the federal bureaucracy.
Every level of government has been weaponized and has become a threat to the citizenry it purports to serve.
Folks criticizing his voice-
You’re. Missing. The. Point.
OK?
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