Huh. Strange, But It Looks Like Dumbass Antivax & Anti-Biden Attitudes Aren't Helping Country Music
This month, after causing an online stir with photos of his toddlers wearing anti-President Biden T-shirts on Instagram, country superstar Jason Aldean doubled down: “I will never apologize for my beliefs or my love for my family and country,” he wrote in a follow-up post. A couple days later, he posted a news story to his 3.5 million followers about California Gov. Gavin Newsom instating coronavirus vaccine mandates in schools. “You gotta be kidding me! People in California should be outraged and people everywhere else better start standing up and speaking out NOW. This is not how America and being free works,” the caption stated.
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The stereotype persists that all country fans are conservative Republicans from small towns in the South and Midwest. But while the genre remains popular in those regions, it also continues to reach fans beyond those demographics, with listeners of many backgrounds and increasing popularity on the coasts. Multiple high-profile acts have been open about their liberal views, such as Brothers Osborne; Tim McGraw and Faith Hill donated to President Biden’s campaign. Outlets such as CMT have made concerted efforts to improve diversity in the format — the network’s CMT Artists of the Year special that aired Wednesday honored Kane Brown and Mickey Guyton, two of the few artists of color signed to major Nashville record labels. “I made it my life’s purpose to show that country music really is everyone’s music,” Guyton said in her acceptance speech for breakthrough artist of the year.
But in the past year and a half, country music fans have watched as many Nashville stars with large and influential platforms stayed silent in aftermath of the death of George Floyd in police custody, even as celebrities from every other corner of the entertainment industry weighed in on racial equity. Then, as the coronavirus pandemic raged and much of the industry shut down, some country artists defied health protocols to play concerts anyway. In February, the genre’s breakout star Morgan Wallen was caught on video saying the n-word. Though he faced immediate condemnation and some minor consequences (his music was temporarily pulled from the radio and Spotify took his songs off its editorial playlists, for example), he arguably became more popular than ever, with his album “Dangerous” spending 10 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts.
Industry executives are also well aware of the genre’s reputation. On Tuesday, Rolling Stone obtained an email from Universal Music Group Nashville President Cindy Mabe that questioned the Recording Academy’s decision to rule country star Kacey Musgraves as ineligible for the country album category at the upcoming Grammy Awards. Mabe pointed out that country music made national headlines for the controversy surrounding Wallen’s racial slur, but added, “THIS IS NOT ALL THAT WE ARE. Under the surface are the artists that change it all and they are led by the example of Kacey Musgraves.” Some fans have grown increasingly disillusioned as they watch these situations play out. Christina Boehnke was surprised but gratified when she saw that Maren Morris, one of the few country artists she still listens to these days, condemned Wallen as other Nashville singers stayed quiet or quickly defended him. “We all know it wasn’t his first time using that word,” Morris tweeted after TMZ posted a video of him in February saying the racial slur to a friend. “We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse.” “What Maren said really hit home,” Boehnke said. “How that wasn’t the end of his career to me says a lot about the country fan base and some of the artists themselves who just didn’t speak out against what he said or did.”
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white supremacists. When around their little inbred, redneck, racist, alcohol junkie support groups, they use whatever racial slurs they like, as usual. That was directed at one particular FG following COVIDiot asshole and his two brothers. I know he saw it, and I know he knows who it was directed at. Not a word, and he'll chime in on a lot of posts of mine and mutual friends.
I try and antagonize those guys every chance I get. I was hitting on the older brothers wife not long ago. 
Really just to piss him off, and show her he didn't dare say squat to me! In a cage match with all three, they'd have to get those guys out with a hose!
FG followers from hell. They have it coming to them.
