"Try That in a Small Town"

[Wat_Tyler]

That's because they have no pistols to pull otherwise.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

The guy with the holster flap was in no itchin' hurry.

But the guy on the Left had crazy eyes...

 

[Chobham]

This whole subject is like a side show in the culture wars. The real action is taking place over at Budweiser and Target for the time being. I expect that to spread to the ESG investment bankers as people become more aware of what's going on with those folks.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Don't leave out the Titanic and unsinkable Disney-ESPN culture cruise ship...



... the one with too few life rafts. Some of the band is already overboard.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Businesses and Sports franchises need to stay out of politics and the cultural fray. Just ask The Dodgers.

Ask all those militant Lesbians determined to destroy women's soccer as a spectator sport.

Anyone seen Colin K lately???

 

[Chobham]

Once you start taking the knee there's no going back. You've signaled that you've bought into the premise and once you've bought into the premise how do you gracefully back out?

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Judging by the prime examples, you never back up, never back down (another country song to be outraged over),

and always double down.

 

[AnonyMissWriter]

It's funny how none of these reasonable, discerning and middle of the road centrists can just whistle Dixie when it comes to the hate, violence and misogyny of rap music (that's just their culture and you need to be accepting, tolerant and inclusive or you're a fucking "Racist") but are more than happy, eager even, to take one country song out of context and act like it's the leading cause of what divides this country and makes it a horrible place to live, or even exist, in. "Those people," so the thinking goes, need to get out of the 50s and get with the program and be more like those centers of cultural erudition like Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louie, New York, Oakland...,

Honestly, I don't care for most country music as it's shallow, written and sang by people with shallow problems. Get into rock, metal, blues, jazz, I can see who has been through it or going through it and find it very relatable. You tend to only see a narrow world view until you experience loss, oppression, suffering, pain. Then you have something worth writing about.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

All pop music is vapid and speaks to the cultural mores and values of the sub-cultures that consume it.

Country music speaks to me of my youth just like the rock music of the time did.

It's echos of the past for those not condemned to repeat its mistakes.

(And, personally, my CD collection is very eclectic,
I even have a Robert Johnson collection.
Hot tamales and the red hots,
yeah she's got 'em for sale!)

 

[Chobham]

There's some quality country music out there, the song in question not being one of them.

As Vinny pointed out, most of today's music, of all genre's, is formulaic written, over produced, auto-tuned, and sampled. Can AI do a better job? We're about to find out.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

That's why I'm a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

*chuckle*

Jason Aldean to the great thinkers of the woke cancel culture mob: Thank you. Thank you very much:

Per Penske Media Eldridge’s music sales and streams data tracker Luminate, the song’s on-demand audio and video streams have increased by 999 percent, from 987,000 to 11.7 million. Sales are up as well, selling 228,000 units this past week (a whopping 22,700% increase from the week before the controversy, when the track only sold 1,000 units).

Original source: The hated and much maligned BreitBart (the original Aldean).

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Go Woke, Go Broke!

The channel’s [CMT] viewership is down over 64 percent. Country music fans are not dealing with this cancel culture wokism. This was a bridge way too far. They see the Aldean song as patriotic, an adage to the America that is almost gone thanks to wokism and cancel culture.

https://billbordi.com/2023/07/21/cmt-ratings-down-64-percent-after-axing-jason-aldean-video/

 

[jomar]

(And, personally, my CD collection is very eclectic,

How quaint

 

[Chobham]

Go Woke, Go Broke!

The channel’s [CMT] viewership is down over 64 percent. Country music fans are not dealing with this cancel culture wokism. This was a bridge way too far. They see the Aldean song as patriotic, an adage to the America that is almost gone thanks to wokism and cancel culture.

https://billbordi.com/2023/07/21/cmt-ratings-down-64-percent-after-axing-jason-aldean-video/

Anti-wokeism or anti-censorship in general?

People in general and Americans in particular don't react well to censorship and that goes back a LONG ways. The first instance I remember was of the radio stations banning Link Wray's "Rumble." He couldn't get air time but the record shops couldn't keep enough records on the shelf to satisfy the demand. If you think back I'm sure you can come up with other examples.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

There are myriad exemplars of those who let their [manufactured] outrage get the better of their self-control and who end up with the opposite of that which was their goal, like the guy who does the most awesome slam dunk, on the wrong hoop. This is one of those times and the beauty is that it's on more than one level.

 

[Chobham]

There are myriad exemplars of those who let their [manufactured] outrage get the better of their self-control and who end up with the opposite of that which was their goal, like the guy who does the most awesome slam dunk, on the wrong hoop. This is one of those times and the beauty is that it's on more than one level.

Exactly!!!

Not to be confused with what's going on re. Disney, Budweiser, Target, et al. Most of that is spontaneous and organic. With the exception of Disney, arguable, there is no large organization calling for boycotts, etc. When the left started going after children they crossed a line.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Go Woke, Go Broke!

The channel’s [CMT] viewership is down over 64 percent. Country music fans are not dealing with this cancel culture wokism. This was a bridge way too far. They see the Aldean song as patriotic, an adage to the America that is almost gone thanks to wokism and cancel culture.

https://billbordi.com/2023/07/21/cmt-ratings-down-64-percent-after-axing-jason-aldean-video/

Note to businesses: Don’t try alienating your customer base in a small town. Or in big cities. Really bad idea.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Note to businesses: Don’t try alienating your customer base in a small town. Or in big cities. Really bad idea.

Building up to this tipping point, I think corporations started engaging in these clearly self-destructive machinations to protect themselves from a small, rhetorically violent and boycott oriented minority, but they payed Dane's Geld and assumed that the silence from the overwhelming majority of their customer base implied acquiescence, if not outright acceptance and embrace, of the woke mob's agenda and social goals, which in hindsight, I think they're seeing was a miscalculation of the highest order.

They've poked the sleeping bear, AKA, the Silent Majority, and now that they're "awoke," they have a hunger which must be sated. The only thing that puzzles me in this modern-day passion play is how few executives at the very top got the axe for putting politics before business/brand, customers and most importantly, shareholders. Especially when they were catering/kowtowing to extreme minority groups who were never ever going to consider consuming their product.

 

[ll74]

Exactly!!!

Not to be confused with what's going on re. Disney, Budweiser, Target, et al. Most of that is spontaneous and organic. With the exception of Disney, arguable, there is no large organization calling for boycotts, etc. When the left started going after children they crossed a line.

Nothing online is organic from a boycott perspective. Bud light was literally a singular rightie who stumbled on a TikTok video of their favorite beer and went online to raise hell. The majority of people boycotting bud light have never even heard anything from Mulvaney that wasn't spoon fed to them by a minority of fire stokers.

None of them would've organically even know she existed, much less that Bud Light made a can for marketing purposes. People manufacture outrage (this happens on the left and the right) on the internet.

The left isn't going after children any more than the right. People you don't like are just more visible because they aren't hiding from society anymore.

 

[DeluxAuto]

There are myriad exemplars of those who let their [manufactured] outrage get the better of their self-control and who end up with the opposite of that which was their goal, like the guy who does the most awesome slam dunk, on the wrong hoop. This is one of those times and the beauty is that it's on more than one level.

And Chodebum is responsible for this one and the Twitter thread.

 

[AnonyMissWriter]

Nothing online is organic from a boycott perspective. Bud light was literally a singular rightie who stumbled on a TikTok video of their favorite beer and went online to raise hell. The majority of people boycotting bud light have never even heard anything from Mulvaney that wasn't spoon fed to them by a minority of fire stokers.

None of them would've organically even know she existed, much less that Bud Light made a can for marketing purposes. People manufacture outrage (this happens on the left and the right) on the internet.

The left isn't going after children any more than the right. People you don't like are just more visible because they aren't hiding from society anymore.

I do plan to open an LGBT affirming youth center in my small ass backwards town, so, yeah, I'm going for the kids. The ones afraid to be themselves with crippling anxiety and suicidal tendency. Not that I consider myself a leftist. But, I've never really taken on any of the labels others want to put on me.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Trailer hitch should go to a bar and ask dudes for their cocks. He should try that in a small town.

 

[ll74]

I do plan to open an LGBT affirming youth center in my small ass backwards town, so, yeah, I'm going for the kids. The ones afraid to be themselves with crippling anxiety and suicidal tendency. Not that I consider myself a leftist. But, I've never really taken on any of the labels others want to put on me.

Positive support systems are truly what small towns are great for, as long as there are enough people to support them. Great job on doing your part.

I think that is a better response than, "if you cross me Im gonna shoot you"

 

[kucked2x]

The funniest thing about the Jason Aldean controversy is that he also released a song in 2019 called “Rearview Town” about how he defiantly left a small town because it sucked.