I just heard another musical performance from the Toilet Paper USA alternative half-time show, this time by Lee Brice. It’s a perfect caricature of a country-western song.
I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer
And not wake up to all this stuff I don’t want to hear
Like the same kind of gun I hunt with, just killed another man
The only thing mine ever shot was deer from my deer stand
I just want to cut my grass, feed my dogs, and wear my boots
Not turn the TV on, sit and watch the evening news
Be told if I tell my own daughter that little boys ain’t little girls
I’d be up the creek in hot water in this “cancel your ass” worldIt ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays
The direction, the finger’s pointing when everything goes up in flames
Saying I’m some right-wing devil ’cause I was down South, Jesus raised
It ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays
Pathetic whiner. This has got to be a joke — if I were asked to write a mocking satire of a country-western song, I’d churn out something that bad. He already gets to do all the things he listed, except that he doesn’t like to hear anything he might disagree with. This is a song about a world where everyone who has a different opinion than he does has to be silenced, while he whimpers about being persecuted.
I usually try to make excuses for despising the whole country-western genre — there are a few artists who break the boring goddamn conventions — but no, not any more. These people are anti-artistic leeches.
“Jesus raised” – spot the problem right there.
There is a video on YouTube by a channel called There I Ruined It from two years ago making fun of “bro country music”. People in the comments joked about how they could put it in the playlist at many parties and people wouldn’t even notice. THEY thought they were joking, but again, satire proves a more accurate reflection of reality than anything else.
Quite literally a conflict that could have been solved by turning off the TV and going fishing instead. With stakes that high, surely this man is the most persecuted man in our time.
Pretty sure he can do ALL that shit he mentions. Where’s the problem.?
The problem is that he might hear some lib telling him about gun deaths and trans people. He doesn’t want to hear any of that downer stuff.
“I’d be up the creek in hot water in this “cancel your ass” world”
What the actual fuck does this mean? These aren’t real phrases people use.
Creeks aren’t fucking hot.
It is a song but not a good song.
The actual idiom is, “Up a creek without a paddle”.
You rarely hear it these days because we are an urban society and most people have never paddled a canoe or kayak on a creek.
“Cancel your ass” doesn’t make much sense either.
He is apparently complaining that he will be persecuted for being an anti-Trans bigot.
Which ignores the current witch hunt going on in the USA which targets…Trans people.
The TL;DR version. He is a routine right wingnut idiot.
“It ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays?”
NewsHistory flash: it’s NEVER easy being country, in ANY country. That’s the entire effing point of most country music: it’s all about the small joys and great sorrows of ordinary life outside of big cities. “Being country” involves much tougher shit than having to honestly tell your kid what “LGBTQ” means.Then again, talking honestly about the reality of country life could lead to having to talk about why, specifically, it’s so hard and not up to the standard ideal. (Hint: it ain’t the Blacks, the wimmen, the libruls, or the transes who are making it hard.)
Family Guy used to play a song by Conway Twitty as a running joke. |
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qbxn2CI8vsg
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An example of good country artists would be my fellow Swedes in First Aid Kit, but they are not confined to one single genre.
First Aid Kit – War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLY7XZv92xg
Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line (Live in Denmark)
The real thing in a herd of charlatans.
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=jh169rVMveA
Jesus, those were awful.
^ Conway Twitty or Black Sabbath?
The late night comedy shows covered the Temu version of the half time show. It was hilarious.
@gmacs #6
You’re right about it being nonsensical but; https://roadtrippingcalifornia.com/hot-creek-geological-site/
Read a piece a few weeks back recommending not arguing with these right-wing lunatics. It said their brains are hard wired to not accept facts. Not so much to accept facts but facts will have to make them change. Said their brains do not want to deal with having to evaluate new data and possibly change their beliefs. And that is the big difference between the libruls and right-wing lunatics, libruls can accept new facts and change what they believe and the other side cannot. So, arguing with them is useless.
Ylvis’ “Trucker’s Hitch” is better country and English isn’t even their native language.
(btw, the “instructional video” they watch can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEXcVvxmV3s It’s also country, just a different country. ;))
The purpose of arguing with reality-deniers is to show receptive bystanders there’s another way of thinking (and sometimes, such as the famous confrontation that undid McCarthy, it’s to shame them into the political wilderness).
Sorry it got embedded. I assumed it would just show the link since other posts did. What do I have to do to suppress that?
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Ridana, simple: don’t post the URL by itself.
Anything at all in front of it will prevent the embedding, though the input processor strips whitespace.
Can be anything from (a non-breaking space) or just a bit of text;
e.g. Ylvis’ “Trucker’s Hitch” is better country and English isn’t even their native language: https://youtu.be/TUHgGK-tImY works.
[addendum: only applies to videos, other URLs are fine]