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'Rich Men North of Richmond' Singer Oliver Anthony Slams Use of Song at Republican Debate: 'I Wrote That Song About Those People'

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Oliver Anthony criticizes conservatives who try to align themselves with him in a new video statement posted to YouTube.

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Oliver Anthony slams use of song at debate: I wrote that song about those people

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Ootl... Who is this red head of the woods and what did they do?
- Tldr: some no name dude wrote a country song. One of the lyrics shits on welfare recipients. Conservative hogs lose their mind and his song hits top charts. He comes out backpedaling and claiming we all "interpretted the lyrics wrong" and welfare recipients are victims not leeches. Now everyone is confused.
  
  Can't forget the part where his personal YouTube channel also has an extensive watch list ("videos to make your noggin' bigger" or something similar) full of full-on anti-semitic conspiracy theories. Such as Jews secretly orchestrating 9/11.
  
  This is an important detail of which I was unaware. I was almost gonna credit him for snubbing his nose at privileged politicians, but now I can write him off again.
  
  Got a link to that?
  ETA: never mind I was having a hard time finding reference to that but then I found this article:
  https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/rich-men-north-richmond-viral-conservative-anthem-rcna99698
  
  this definitely feeds into my thoughts on who he thinks the "rich men" are
  
  Ohhh. This is the dude who performs the song my coworker was all but having orgasms over yesterday and was trying to make me listen to - "the lyrics are amazing, just listen to them!" She already thinks she's magnetic from a hepatitis vaccine, and this morning informed me that the moon landing was a hoax, so I think I made the right call in utterly ignoring her and her stupid song.
  
  Oh no... This is just sad. They need a friend and a hobby.
  
  She is a product of her environment. She is also nearly 50.
  
  This guy is also a product of his environment and it seems like his heart is in the right place. That one throw off line really doesn't seem that bad and I really don't understand the hate this guy is getting. The left(which i consider myself patt of but damn) needs to do some real self examination if this is who they're demonizing, over a couple unfortunate words. Like bro is trying obviously. He could've easily just pondered to those conservative fuckheads and gotten stupid amounts of mypillow money or something, but he's making public statements against those people.
  
  "the lyrics are amazing, just listen to them!"
  It's got good wordplay and flow but the content is confused and under informed
  
  The song title rich men north of Richmond is also likely a dog whistle for other crappy bigots like this idiot.
  
  What's the dog whistle? Washington DC is north of Richmond VA.
  
  Richmond was one of the northernmost slave owning towns during the civil war.
  
  Interesting. Thank you for the context
  
  I think a lot of people get way too uptight over nonsense that is actually bait.
  
  One of the lyrics shits on welfare recipients.
  There's no way he chose Richmond for any reason other than being the CSA's capital city.
  
  There's no way he chose Richmond for any reason other than being the CSA's capital city.
  I don't know anything about this guy or this song, but I think it's more likely he chose it because Richmond sounds like rich men.
  
  I feel like a lot of people are weirdly jumping to conclusions and trying to make up detailed conspiracy theories. Could it possibly be that DC is north of Richmond, and "rich men" sounds like Richmond?
  
  Could it possibly be that DC is north of Richmond, and “rich men” sounds like Richmond?
  I mean if you want to pander to people who are still upset that DC took away their slaves and who would prefer that they could call Richmond their capital, and all you had to do to get people to defend you for that choice was to toss in an awkward half-rhyme, why wouldn't you?
  
  Ah okay I was confused why people were hating on this guy. Before I knew that it sounded like "The machine is wondering why rage against the machine hates them for liking their music again."
- Just to be clear, this isn't the guy who made "try that in a small town" which was another meme of a song lately.

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