re: Jason Isbell Is Tired Of Country’s Love Affair With White Nostalgia

Country music or hill music as called before speaks for the common and the poor. It shares a lot with folk music. It is conservative because it is plain and simple and protests against the dangers of worldly desires and consumption. The rich elites don't like it because it exposes the truth of the world as they look down on the common people as play toys.

It speaks against corporate mindsets and human rights abuses. Remember the song take this job and shove it? Well that is the most anti-corporate song an employee can think of. A protest was being done in the coal mines of West Virginia because of the terrible working conditions. When the song was played, the audience roared. 16 tons is another protest of poor working conditions.

Country music or hill music can save the morale of this nation while other music genres such as pop suck people in with music that brainwashes them as obedient to Hollywood which is in bed with the Democrats that are controlled by the CCP and wealthy elites. So it is a threat to the power structure as it makes people think and act.

Country music works against wokism as it destroys individuality and personal freedom.

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Still, while plenty of country songs touch on the theme of quiet pride in the place you’re from, the overly jingoistic part of the genre lends itself to aligning with conservatism.

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This simply cannot be tolerated by the one-party totalitarian state, thus they use their propaganda apparatuses to denounce it. This type of move is straight out of the Communist Party playbook.

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The irony is probably 95% of Isbell's income derives from people who disagree with his silly politics.

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It seems that Mr. Isbell suffers from White Savior Syndrome because he has the belief these black performers can't succeed without the help of woke, liberal, white people who "understand their struggle."

Your statement also blows out of the water the notion of some mythical "white privilege" or "white supremacy." Middle-and-working class whites are the only group in this country who can be impugned and maligned as they recently have been without resorting to massive acts protest and violence. It seems these "dangerous white supremacists" are fairly docile sheep who seem content on peacefully living their lives and raising their families. The only violence they seem to have committed is turning out to be staged by our government.

these woke arse musicians always talking about racism, yet they never mention doing something to take the "N" word out of today's music.

He was in the Drive By Truckers, and he’s now mostly a solo artist.


You can almost always assume a
musician has extreme left wing views. But it has to be a relatively new phenomenon.

Probably post WW2.

What happened? What changed?

Was it education, was it the leadership at record labels, was it the media feting people for having extreme views?

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...and not one word is mentioned about folk music being gathering place for Communists and their fellow travelers like Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez.

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The Communists weaponized low culture, folk music, against us.


My values come from my parents, grandparents, and my early schooling — but the books and movies I was exposed to as a child had a massive influence.

I was lucky, my grandmother loved John Wayne, but we have to be careful about the media we show our children. And the books they read.

They actually matter

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new country

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Isbell is a mentally ill addict looking for redemption in virtue signaling. But he isn't new country. He has one really good album and a few other good songs. Puts on a great live show.

I've never heard him talk politics at a show,but I haven't seen him in years. I try to ignore this shite, but he has made it difficult and I stopped listening to him.

Eta: most of his songs are about, and therefore his wealth derives from, white nostalgia. I didn't bother reading to see if he at least admits that.

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Isbell's solo stuff

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Dude is a whiny bitch regardless of his political stance.