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Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"
Posted by PrimeTime Money on 11/23/16 at 9:29 am521
This perfectly describes the election using "Sweet Home Alabama" as a guide:
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/23/brooklyn-grocery-store-played-sweet-home-alabama-everyone-lost-minds/#disqus_thread
Why People Lost Their Minds When A Brooklyn Store Played ‘Sweet Home Alabama’
Upscale progressives have gotten used to tuning out the voice of the Trump voter. But there's an America out there that they can no longer ignore.
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Three days after the election, my wife and I were shopping at the Fairway Market in Red Hook, Brooklyn. For those unfamiliar with it, Fairway is a less corporate, more co-op version of Whole Foods, offering pretty produce and exotic cheeses that don’t come cheap. The mood in the store was glum. As in most of Brooklyn, people stared ahead, moving slowly, still in shock from the political earthquake of Tuesday night.
After getting our Brazilian Arabica ground for drip (I know, I should really use a French Press), Libby and I walked towards the organic maple syrup. That’s when it started. I suppose there had been music playing in the store, but I hadn’t noticed until a familiar guitar lick pierced the air and a soft voice said, “Turn it up.”
Libby and I both stopped and looked at each other. “Seriously?” said my wife, a very disappointed Clinton supporter. She started gripping her soft Tomme Crayeuse a little too hard. By the time Ronnie Van Zant’s drawl started in with “Big wheels keep on turnin’,” everyone in the store was standing in shock. Brows were furrowed, people mumbled to each other. The song seemed to get louder as one of those New York moments happened, when everyone was thinking the exact the same thing.
A woman in her fifties, wearing a Love Trump Hates button, turned to her Brooklyn-bearded husband and said loudly, “This is unbelievable!” She found the nearest store clerk, a young woman in a green apron who was staring up at the ceiling, looking for the invisible speakers blaring this message from the other America. “This is so inappropriate,” the woman said. “Can we turn this off?”
The City of Homes, Cafés, and Clinton
Brooklyn was the epicenter of the Clinton campaign. Throughout the summer and fall in Brooklyn Heights, you could see young staffers near the campaign headquarters: expensive coffee in hand, eyes bright, ready to tackle the future. Cafés turned into phone banks, where you could buy a croissant and make a few calls to flyover country. Buttons, banners, and bumper stickers were everywhere.
As the election grew near, confidence was overflowing. A big victory was on the horizon for Lena Dunham and the new Brooklyn. This ground zero for upscale progressivism was ready for a party; white male supremacism was about to be crushed beneath a professional high heel.
Fittingly, perhaps, the only exception to Clinton mania in Brooklyn was in the southern part of the borough. In Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst, big trucks could be seen with “Hillary for Prison” and “Make America Great Again” detailed on their back windows. This is not the Brooklyn of “Girls” or “The Slap.” It is the Brooklyn of “Blue Bloods,” the home of cops and firemen, plumbers and construction workers immune to the appeal of a President Clinton. These are people who listen to Skynyrd, and not ironically.
Everything Old Is New Again
I couldn’t stop laughing as the Fairway patrons tried to continue shopping with “Sweet Home Alabama” blasting in the background. And in retrospect, the moment was a perfect encapsulation of a very old fight within America
The song itself was written in response to two songs by Neil Young: “Southern Man,” and “Alabama.” It was 1974, and as the Civil Rights era faded into history, the South and Southern rock was reasserting pride in their culture and way of life.
Last year, “Garden and Gun” talked to Gary Rossington, the last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, about the creation of the song. He said:
For his part, Young would eventually agree that he had painted the South with too broad a brush. In his 2012 autobiography “Waging Heavy Peace,” Young would write, “My own song ‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue.”
If “accusatory and condescending” sounds familiar, it should. Along with being called deplorable, Trump’s supporters (of which I was not one) have been treated in a way that is rare in American politics, and deeply troubling. The campaign that emerged from Brooklyn didn’t just attack the politics of people who don’t live in big cities. It attacked their entire way of life, and promised it was dying.
Ignoring It Doesn’t Make It Go Away
When the angry older woman with the anti-Trump button asked the clerk to turn off the song, the younger woman looked at her sympathetically and said, “I don’t know how.” In that moment, something seemed to click.
Of course, this woman thought that “Sweet Home Alabama” could just be turned off. After all, we can block out things we disagree with. We can unfriend people on Facebook, block them on Twitter, and decide not to let their negativity be a part of lives. For many progressives, this is the key to wellness.
But turning off Skynyrd doesn’t make it go away. Somewhere in the land where the stars still shine, it plays on, whether you hear it or not. The shock and despair in Brooklyn over Hillary Clinton’s unfathomable defeat comes in no small part because her denizens refused to hear the rumblings of an America they chose to ignore.
Just like a hillbilly band rocketing to the top of the national charts, Donald Trump has awakened the right sort to the fact that they do not control everything. For Trump and his supporters, the protests and challenges to the Electoral College should be seen as another victory. Not only did they win, they are being heard—even in Brooklyn.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/23/brooklyn-grocery-store-played-sweet-home-alabama-everyone-lost-minds/#disqus_thread
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/23/brooklyn-grocery-store-played-sweet-home-alabama-everyone-lost-minds/#disqus_thread
Why People Lost Their Minds When A Brooklyn Store Played ‘Sweet Home Alabama’
Upscale progressives have gotten used to tuning out the voice of the Trump voter. But there's an America out there that they can no longer ignore.
-------------------------------------------------------
Three days after the election, my wife and I were shopping at the Fairway Market in Red Hook, Brooklyn. For those unfamiliar with it, Fairway is a less corporate, more co-op version of Whole Foods, offering pretty produce and exotic cheeses that don’t come cheap. The mood in the store was glum. As in most of Brooklyn, people stared ahead, moving slowly, still in shock from the political earthquake of Tuesday night.
After getting our Brazilian Arabica ground for drip (I know, I should really use a French Press), Libby and I walked towards the organic maple syrup. That’s when it started. I suppose there had been music playing in the store, but I hadn’t noticed until a familiar guitar lick pierced the air and a soft voice said, “Turn it up.”
Libby and I both stopped and looked at each other. “Seriously?” said my wife, a very disappointed Clinton supporter. She started gripping her soft Tomme Crayeuse a little too hard. By the time Ronnie Van Zant’s drawl started in with “Big wheels keep on turnin’,” everyone in the store was standing in shock. Brows were furrowed, people mumbled to each other. The song seemed to get louder as one of those New York moments happened, when everyone was thinking the exact the same thing.
A woman in her fifties, wearing a Love Trump Hates button, turned to her Brooklyn-bearded husband and said loudly, “This is unbelievable!” She found the nearest store clerk, a young woman in a green apron who was staring up at the ceiling, looking for the invisible speakers blaring this message from the other America. “This is so inappropriate,” the woman said. “Can we turn this off?”
The City of Homes, Cafés, and Clinton
Brooklyn was the epicenter of the Clinton campaign. Throughout the summer and fall in Brooklyn Heights, you could see young staffers near the campaign headquarters: expensive coffee in hand, eyes bright, ready to tackle the future. Cafés turned into phone banks, where you could buy a croissant and make a few calls to flyover country. Buttons, banners, and bumper stickers were everywhere.
As the election grew near, confidence was overflowing. A big victory was on the horizon for Lena Dunham and the new Brooklyn. This ground zero for upscale progressivism was ready for a party; white male supremacism was about to be crushed beneath a professional high heel.
Fittingly, perhaps, the only exception to Clinton mania in Brooklyn was in the southern part of the borough. In Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst, big trucks could be seen with “Hillary for Prison” and “Make America Great Again” detailed on their back windows. This is not the Brooklyn of “Girls” or “The Slap.” It is the Brooklyn of “Blue Bloods,” the home of cops and firemen, plumbers and construction workers immune to the appeal of a President Clinton. These are people who listen to Skynyrd, and not ironically.
Everything Old Is New Again
I couldn’t stop laughing as the Fairway patrons tried to continue shopping with “Sweet Home Alabama” blasting in the background. And in retrospect, the moment was a perfect encapsulation of a very old fight within America
The song itself was written in response to two songs by Neil Young: “Southern Man,” and “Alabama.” It was 1974, and as the Civil Rights era faded into history, the South and Southern rock was reasserting pride in their culture and way of life.
Last year, “Garden and Gun” talked to Gary Rossington, the last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, about the creation of the song. He said:
quote:
“Neil Young had “Southern Man,” and it was kind of cutting the South down. And so Ronnie just said, We need to show people how the real Alabama is. We loved Neil Young and all the music he’s given the world. We still love him today. It wasn’t cutting him down, it was cutting the song he wrote about the South down. Ronnie painted a picture everyone liked. Because no matter where you’re from, sweet home Alabama or sweet home Florida or sweet home Arkansas, you can relate.”
For his part, Young would eventually agree that he had painted the South with too broad a brush. In his 2012 autobiography “Waging Heavy Peace,” Young would write, “My own song ‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue.”
If “accusatory and condescending” sounds familiar, it should. Along with being called deplorable, Trump’s supporters (of which I was not one) have been treated in a way that is rare in American politics, and deeply troubling. The campaign that emerged from Brooklyn didn’t just attack the politics of people who don’t live in big cities. It attacked their entire way of life, and promised it was dying.
Ignoring It Doesn’t Make It Go Away
When the angry older woman with the anti-Trump button asked the clerk to turn off the song, the younger woman looked at her sympathetically and said, “I don’t know how.” In that moment, something seemed to click.
Of course, this woman thought that “Sweet Home Alabama” could just be turned off. After all, we can block out things we disagree with. We can unfriend people on Facebook, block them on Twitter, and decide not to let their negativity be a part of lives. For many progressives, this is the key to wellness.
But turning off Skynyrd doesn’t make it go away. Somewhere in the land where the stars still shine, it plays on, whether you hear it or not. The shock and despair in Brooklyn over Hillary Clinton’s unfathomable defeat comes in no small part because her denizens refused to hear the rumblings of an America they chose to ignore.
Just like a hillbilly band rocketing to the top of the national charts, Donald Trump has awakened the right sort to the fact that they do not control everything. For Trump and his supporters, the protests and challenges to the Electoral College should be seen as another victory. Not only did they win, they are being heard—even in Brooklyn.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/23/brooklyn-grocery-store-played-sweet-home-alabama-everyone-lost-minds/#disqus_thread
This post was edited on 11/23 at 9:31 am
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by hendersonshands on 11/23/16 at 9:34 am to PrimeTime Money
Remind me to never go to Brooklyn
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by SirWinston on 11/23/16 at 9:34 am to PrimeTime Money
Good piece .cheers:
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by teke184 on 11/23/16 at 9:35 am to PrimeTime Money
... and these people think they can win a civil war with the "red states."
If they can be demoralized just by playing Skynyrd, then it would be a bigger rout than I'd thought.
If they can be demoralized just by playing Skynyrd, then it would be a bigger rout than I'd thought.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Damone on 11/23/16 at 9:35 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:
Three days after the election, my wife and I were shopping at the Fairway Market in Red Hook, Brooklyn. For those unfamiliar with it, Fairway is a less corporate, more co-op version of Whole Foods, offering pretty produce and exotic cheeses that don’t come cheap. The mood in the store was glum. As in most of Brooklyn, people stared ahead, moving slowly, still in shock from the political earthquake of Tuesday night.
After getting our Brazilian Arabica ground for drip (I know, I should really use a French Press), Libby and I walked towards the organic maple syrup. That’s when it started. I suppose there had been music playing in the store, but I hadn’t noticed until a familiar guitar lick pierced the air and a soft voice said, “Turn it up.”
Libby and I both stopped and looked at each other. “Seriously?” said my wife, a very disappointed Clinton supporter. She started gripping her soft Tomme Crayeuse a little too hard. By the time Ronnie Van Zant’s drawl started in with “Big wheels keep on turnin’,” everyone in the store was standing in shock. Brows were furrowed, people mumbled to each other. The song seemed to get louder as one of those New York moments happened, when everyone was thinking the exact the same thing.
A woman in her fifties, wearing a Love Trump Hates button, turned to her Brooklyn-bearded husband and said loudly, “This is unbelievable!” She found the nearest store clerk, a young woman in a green apron who was staring up at the ceiling, looking for the invisible speakers blaring this message from the other America. “This is so inappropriate,” the woman said. “Can we turn this off?”
This has to be satire.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by goldennugget on 11/23/16 at 9:36 am to PrimeTime Money
Good Lord.
I hate the song because it sucks, not because of whatever political message is in it.
I bet these retards look like pajama boy and butch lesbian. If they are talking about getting "organic maple syrup" and some brazillian exotic cheese they are confirmed cuckolds.
I was close. Cuck confirmed
I hate the song because it sucks, not because of whatever political message is in it.
I bet these retards look like pajama boy and butch lesbian. If they are talking about getting "organic maple syrup" and some brazillian exotic cheese they are confirmed cuckolds.
I was close. Cuck confirmed
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by EastBankTiger on 11/23/16 at 9:37 am to teke184
quote:
... and these people think they can win a civil war with the "red states."
That's part of their problem. These last 2 elections have shown that there's many more "red states" than they realize.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Alabamya on 11/23/16 at 9:37 am to goldennugget
quote:
I hate the song because it sucks,
Thats not why you hate it.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by member12 on 11/23/16 at 9:38 am to PrimeTime Money
Southern man don't need him around.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Yellerhammer5 on 11/23/16 at 9:38 am to Damone
Well it took 150 years, but the south finally rose again.
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re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Contra on 11/23/16 at 9:40 am to PrimeTime Money
More confirmation these people are mentally unstable. It's a mental disorder, no doubt about it.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Knight of Old on 11/23/16 at 9:42 am to PrimeTime Money
Singing songs about the south-land
in the face of those Brooklyn snowflakes; they've ruined what used to be affectionately called 'the third largest city in the US'.
in the face of those Brooklyn snowflakes; they've ruined what used to be affectionately called 'the third largest city in the US'.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Mo Jeaux on 11/23/16 at 9:43 am to hendersonshands
quote:
Remind me to never go to Brooklyn
Don't make the same mistake they're making.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Blizzard of Chizz on 11/23/16 at 9:44 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:
Last year, “Garden and Gun” talked to Gary Rossington, the last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, about the creation of the song. He said:
Artimus Pyle and Ed King are still alive and kicking.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by Stuckinthe90s on 11/23/16 at 9:44 am to teke184
quote:
... and these people think they can win a civil war with the "red states."
To be fair they out number us like crazy.
Only they don't have near the same sort of grit that they had in the mid 1800s. The skinny jeans and safe spaces have stripped them of that.
quote:
... and these people think they can win a civil war with the "red states."
Hahaha! These people would be wiped out in the first day. The thought of a gun gives them panic attacks.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by NC_Tigah on 11/23/16 at 9:46 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:
Upscale progressives have gotten used to tuning out the voice of the Trump voter. But there's an America out there that they can no longer ignore.
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by AustinTigr on 11/23/16 at 9:46 am to PrimeTime Money
Love this piece! My favorite part: "When the angry older woman with the anti-Trump button asked the clerk to turn off the song, the younger woman looked at her sympathetically and said, “I don’t know how.” In that moment, something seemed to click."
God Bless 'Merica!!
God Bless 'Merica!!
re: Why People Lost Their Minds When a Brooklyn Store Played "Sweet Home Alabama"Posted by SirWinston on 11/23/16 at 9:47 am to Stuckinthe90s
Skinny jeans wearing, kale juicing Trump voter here
This post was edited on 11/23 at 9:47 am
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