re: Morgan Wallen cancelled his show at Ole Miss tonight about an hour before starting

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I’ve already claimed that phrase, back the f up free


You have enough words in your vocabulary already

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Now now, there's plenty enough to g around

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this song would actually be better if the person singing it is the one who wrote it”

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I'm a fan of authenticity

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I'm a fan of authenticity

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No. You’re just pompous.

I saw a comment on the internet about morgan wallen (now deleted) that was so spot on I saved it:

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“But to me, he an embarrassment because he represents everything wrong with country music. And on a larger scale, is emblematic of a much larger kind of corruption in the industry.

Wallen debuted in 2014 on The Voice with a skinny tie and a young Justin Beieber-style bougie side swept hair cut. He, and the style department that consulted with him on The Voice, did this to mimick the style of One Direction, the most popular pop act of the time. However, 2013 was about the time when the children of conservatives pivoted from dressing like black dudes in the late 90s (flat bill snapbacks, graphic Nike tees, cargo shorts, tall socks, and slides. I realize that modern young people have no frame of reference for when young white kids didn’t replicate black culture so awkwardly, but for the longest time it was considered embarassing), to dressing like their fathers did in the 80s.

They started with things like boat shoes and pastel polos. However, following the cultural phenomenons that were Duck Dynasty and their rich dickhead performers dressing up like poor people, and Florida Georgia Line, they quickly pivoted to things like Patagonia fishing gear, flannels, puffy trucker caps- shite that’s sold at Academy and Bass Pro Shop, and that the majority had mocked for the 20 to 30 years prior.

Now, in the following years, Wallen goes on to see minor-to-moderate success. He ranks among the other up and coming artists of the time, Riley Green, Kane Brown, etc, but by no means exceeds them. He also changes his style to- flannels, 80s and 90s dad jeans, mullet, mustache, etc. This is in an effort to pander to this almost parody ‘redneck fashion’ culture that’s developed in the last 20 or so years due to things like Rednecks with Paychecks, ‘Yee Yee’ being coopted by people that the series was originally mocking, Duck Dynasty, Bro Country, etc. The same way there used to be Goths, Preps, or whatever else, there’s now a huge community of people that view being a redneck dick as like, a fashion statement and personality choice.

After his famous n-word incident, his streaming numbers sky rocket and never come back down. That’s frustrating enough, but it makes sense. You focus too much on a spectacle, and it balloons into a bigger problem. Literally the subject of Jordan Peele’s Nope. But, watching the fans that come forward to defend him, they tend to say similar things. They claim that he’s down to earth, a small town boy. That they forgive him because it’s the Christian thing to do, and ‘don’t we all make mistakes’?

And that’s basically my largest issue. While trying to recoup face in the wake of his controversy, he releases Don’t Think Jesus. Which, I don’t care what his fans have to say, was designed explicitly to get right-wing Christians to insulate him from criticism, and to galvanize him in a way. There’s something so incredibly fricking sleazy about someone willing to try and manipulate people of faith that way. There’s also something sleazy about him dressing up like a caricature of a rural person to try and make rural people think that he represents them.

I’ve used the term before but, it just feels like country blackface. Everything he does is performative, and is ultimately a mockery of the community and what the genre should actually represent. He’s not dressing like Western Swing artists, or Ameripolitan performers who dress in classic western clothing as a way of preserving and performing within the genres traditions, he’s explicitly doing it to participate in a fashion trend and to bank off of people that don’t understand that he’s only pandering to them, to make money off of them.”

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All those paragraphs are irrelevant to me because they are just pandering to people like you who don’t like Morgan Wallen


See, I can do that too

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I gotta say, I’ve never been listening to a song from any genre and thought to myself “damn, you know what, this song would actually be better if the person singing it is the one who wrote it”

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Same. I've never wondered who wrote what when hearing a song I liked. Just the artist. I am a Wallen fan, but his latest offering has a lot of breakup shite in it.

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I saw a comment on the internet about morgan wallen (now deleted) that was so spot on I saved it:

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pankReb

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say Baw, you've got 35 post itt since noon

This Wallen homo cat isn't going to let you suck him off Baw


Calm down

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monsterballads

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you've been going on for 30 pages being critical of Morgan Wallen and this is your idea of a great band with great songwriting?



Your next bud light is on me, baw.

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I gotta say, I’ve never been listening to a song from any genre and thought to myself “damn, you know what, this song would actually be better if the person singing it is the one who wrote it”

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Elvis and Whitney didn't really write their own songs either. It's not a crime.

But they also sang pretty damn good songs...and what they brought to the table was undeniable.

But when you've got douchebags like Aldean singing absolute dreck that pours out of the "professional songwriters" of Nashville, that's where you just have to recognize it's just shite.

I was assaulted by this horrendous lyric upon entering my car the other day:

"If you got a chance, take it
Take it while you got a chance"

Wow. That's some heady shite.

I got a new song for Luke Bryan:

"He girl. You're my girl, girl. Get in my truck girl. Girl we'll go crusin' down that dirt road girl. Wanna kiss you girl. Girl Girl."

I'm close. And you know it.
JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST MAKE IT STOP.

Dwight Yoakam was brought up. I don't know how much of his stuff he wrote himself...but he sure didn't cover TERRIBLE frickING SONGS.

And yes it just means a little more when Glen Campbell sings his own "Gentle on my mind." Or when Brandi Carlilse sings one of her dozens of thunderously well written/sung songs. Or when Dolly Parton sings Coat of Many Colors.

It's OK. I've had people tell me what I was listening too was shite, and upon further listening, sometimes I agreed with them, grew up and moved on.

Most of what's coming out on your country radio today is absolute shite. We need more of the Tyler Childers types to clear the deck, much in the same way Randy Travis and Dwight cleared the deck back in the day.