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Curious to see if anyone has heard this new song. It seems to be skyrocketing.
It looks like it resonates with a lot of people.
https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro
Its a white guy playing a guitar and singing an anti-establishment song.
He's probably a climate denier too.
I have been wailing and clutching my pearls all week. I'm just waiting for the press release from the white house to let me know that I am safe to go outside again.
I can't be around free speech, critical thought, or anti government sentiment for to long or I start wanting to eat meat and use words like liberty and freedom.
Yuck.
Just, yuck.
I first heard it about a week ago. I guess it was the day of release, as I remember, there were some 900K views. They are saying it had 2M views on the second day.
I see him as a conservative Woody Guthrie if that's a thing. The singer/songwriter is just starting, his voice is a bit ruff.
I lose some of his singing because of tinnitus, but I like it.:munchin
Oliver Anthony said of "Rich Men North of Richmond" released on the 8th of August, 2023, "The universal thing I see is no matter how much effort they put into whatever it is they're doing, they can't quite get ahead because the dollar's not worth enough, they are being over-taxed. [...] I want to be a voice for those people. And not just them, but humans in general."
According to Oliver Anthony, the performance video of "Rich Men North of Richmond" was "first song to get out there that has been recorded on a real microphone and a real camera," and not just on his cell phone. The video has surpassed 2 million views just two days after its release on YouTube.
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare
Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down
Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
Badger52
08-16-2023, 15:45
Its a white guy playing a guitar and singing an anti-establishment song.
He's probably a climate denier too.
I have been wailing and clutching my pearls all week. I'm just waiting for the press release from the white house to let me know that I am safe to go outside again.
I can't be around free speech, critical thought, or anti government sentiment for to long or I start wanting to eat meat and use words like liberty and freedom.
Yuck.
Just, yuck.You know what you need? You need to understand, after the release of Trump Indictment 4.0, you - YOU! - can join with everyone else who ever had a thought or did a crossword while pondering the 2020 election results, thus constituting an "overt act" in a vast conspiracy.
YOU are now: Unindicted Co-Conspirator
(and I'm going to see if my daughter's silk-screening operation will render the T-shirt to prove it)
Harrumph!
Errata: And yes, Oliver Anthony's voice and that Gretsch Resonator guitar are a grand combination. 2x thumbs-up
Roguish Lawyer
08-16-2023, 19:06
I downloaded it. Like it. I've been downloading tons of country music as part of my transition to living in a free state. They haven't banned it here yet.
mark46th
08-16-2023, 19:18
Heartfelt song. Plus, I like that he is playing a Gretsch Resonator. It looks and sounds
like one of the old National guitars
Badger52
08-17-2023, 06:13
Heartfelt song. Plus, I like that he is playing a Gretsch Resonator. It looks and sounds
like one of the old National guitarsBingo. Upon first hearing that's what my ears thought. And the Gretsch isn't spendy at all, especially for someone who's ever seen the price tag on a vintage National. Beer budget vs. selling off the Cadillac.
bblhead672
08-17-2023, 07:33
Mr. Anthony clarified the subject of his song is politicians of all parties.
From North to South, East to West....all whores.
The news is reporting today that he turned down an $8 million offer to sign a contract. He may be a person true to his convictions , and not looking for a financial windfall.
Badger52
08-18-2023, 05:39
The news is reporting today that he turned down an $8 million offer to sign a contract. He may be a person true to his convictions , and not looking for a financial windfall.An establishment record label would likely not have released that song as he performs it.
Yeah, but I bet they would have no problem with a gangster rap song of any type…:confused:
Pfft...
That song is all about male privilege - "rich MEN of richmond"
Seriously?
The song is sexist.
He must think that only "men" have the intelligence, drive, focus, and ambition to succeed in national level politics. Has he forgotten about great aMEruhkins with names like Warren, Harris, Murkowski, Fienstein, Clinton, Collins, Jackson-Lee, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Pelosi.
The song is transphobic.
Is he afraid to acknowledge that some of the highest positions in our current government are held by transgender professionals north of Richmond and not just "men" North of Richmond?
The song is xenophobic.
He fails to acknowledge that in addition to rich NORTH of Richmond there might be politicians living east, west and south of Richmond as well as those from other parts of the world that have found their way into national level aMErickin polyticks.
Of course he probably just thinks everyone in the South is friendly, generous, and honorable - only those dirty Northerners are crooked...
Shouldn't the song be titled, "Financially Well Off Multicultural Persons of Nonspecific Gender Identity Maintaining Living Quarters Near Richmond"
I just don't know - I'm going to have to think long and hard on this one. I'll have to do some research to see how George Snuffaluagus says I should feel about it.
I stand corrected Great One. :D
Roguish Lawyer
08-18-2023, 15:26
Pfft...
That song is all about male privilege - "rich MEN of richmond"
Seriously?
The song is sexist.
He must think that only "men" have the intelligence, drive, focus, and ambition to succeed in national level politics. Has he forgotten about great aMEruhkins with names like Warren, Harris, Murkowski, Fienstein, Clinton, Collins, Jackson-Lee, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Pelosi.
The song is transphobic.
Is he afraid to acknowledge that some of the highest positions in our current government are held by transgender professionals north of Richmond and not just "men" North of Richmond?
The song is xenophobic.
He fails to acknowledge that in addition to rich NORTH of Richmond there might be politicians living east, west and south of Richmond as well as those from other parts of the world that have found their way into national level aMErickin polyticks.
Of course he probably just thinks everyone in the South is friendly, generous, and honorable - only those dirty Northerners are crooked...
Shouldn't the song be titled, "Financially Well Off Multicultural Persons of Nonspecific Gender Identity Maintaining Living Quarters Near Richmond"
I just don't know - I'm going to have to think long and hard on this one. I'll have to do some research to see how George Snuffaluagus says I should feel about it.
:D:D:D:D
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It's almost like I am in California.
Interesting analysis
https://youtu.be/zDSJYZQdTng
Interesting analysis
https://youtu.be/zDSJYZQdTng
BINGO :munchin
bblhead672
08-19-2023, 11:49
From Oliver Anthony’s Facebook page: (copied below so you don’t have to go to FB.)
https://www.facebook.com/100085643337139/posts/pfbid0vgTTi9DpiTHyxkNBtgzY5H2ptwV8ihv94ECJkesJa1mG 4MJ4K3e6pfk7TDVMQrQVl/?mibextid=cr9u03
It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on.
Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me.
People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.
So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction:
My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine.
In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again.
From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated.
In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750.
There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.
That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.
When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you.
Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
Badger52
08-19-2023, 14:53
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It's almost like I am in California.LOL, that makes me smile. California must be into wealth redistribution; look what I got. :D :D :D :D
Tim Kennedy weighs in
We finally did something right. I argue that the Internet has done very little to make this world a better place. But we picked the right guy and made him famous overnight.
His powerful and from the heart song, Rich Men North of Richmond has been number one on iTunes this entire week and 15 million views on YouTube in five days. After not being seen for nearly a week, when his song broke the internet @oliver_anthony_music_ stepped on the stage and read from his well worn Bible.
If you’re expecting him to be perfect, he’s not. He is human.
If you think he is gonna be the white night that was going to ride in and save this country he’s not.
If you think he’s going to revolutionize country music, back to the heart and soul about what it used to be, he won’t.
But he can be the start for all of that. We The People are the most feared humans on the planet. I think it’s time we remember just how powerful we are.
The scripture he read:
“The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming. es; in the days of famine they have abundance. But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
— **Psalm *37:*12-
https://www.facebook.com/100044434209457/posts/837733627717770/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
18e.wannabe
08-30-2023, 16:12
If anyone is interested, Joe Rogan just had Chris (They guy who sings the song under the name Oliver Anthony) on the podcast. I won't link it here but it is available on Spotify.