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Believe and I could be wrong But I believe we are at an inflection point a tipping point if you will maybe the very very early stages of it And let's not assume that it's going to lead to some sort of victory parade, but I think it's important I think that it's important to Identify reasons for hope when you see them and I'd be lying if this song didn't make me hopeful and let me explain why well, I already did explain it on Twitter, so let me go ahead and read it to you and See what you guys think about my breakdown. I Said there has already been a lot of ink spilled about this song, but I still feel compelled to comment I'm hesitant to do so because I hate seeing beautiful art dragged into the culture war arena But since it's inevitable anyways, here I go Aside from being one of the most heartfelt songs ever written to me It speaks to the part of America that feels forgotten the blue collar laborer that gets demonized despite only wanting to be left alone The kind that only ever wanted to focus on family and God the kind that gets no Hollywood representation as it doesn't chuck a DEI box The kind that news anchors derisively describe is flyover country The kind that understands how broken and corrupt this system is so much so that Most voted for Trump just because they wanted to say fuck you to all of it. It isn't pull it isn't polished It isn't focused. Excuse me. It isn't polished. It isn't focus grouped. It isn't overtly political It is American it speaks to the soul of this country a soul that most DC elites had thought and hoped had been extinguished Oliver Anthony breathed life back into it for that they will attempt to paint he and And it as something worthy of derision, but in truth, it is beauty. It is art It is an ode to America the real America and you cannot convince us otherwise And I know that's Way over the top and cringe Too flowery and Clint you're just such a whatever. I know people get mad. I don't care I met every word of it and And I think it's true. I think that it is symbolic of I mean obviously a market demand that's not being filled first and foremost as you've seen by this incredible you know just Kind of just unbelievable rise of his popularity He's got five fucking songs in the top ten on the billboard right now. He was an unknown five days ago five songs, okay It's bonkers. So there's obviously market demand But why right Rolling Stone wrote some article where it describes it is like the right wings new favorite hit song and it's all because it it's It's negative towards people on welfare. That that's that's their takeaway, right? That's all that they got from it. So let me break down some of these lyrics and I'll I'll explain my The reason I think this is such a big deal Starts out with I've been selling my soul working all day over time hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here and waste my life away drag back home and drown my troubles away Obviously, that's fairly straightforward working a dead-end job Doesn't if he's getting paid decently it doesn't buy what he needs to be able to purchase inflation Lamentation kind of masked in there in my opinion and and then he goes home and he drinks his troubles away So he's you know describing alcoholism which for those that don't know he has already came out and said yes as of a few years ago he was pretty much an alcoholic and Decided to start writing songs and here we are really in an incredible like it's a it's an American story within an American story It's a guy who's like down down and out kind of life falling apart young man and He he finds stardom just by Hard work and kind of spilling his guts and getting shit together. It's awesome Americana if you will He says it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me and people like you very populous messaging bringing the the listener in Making you feel as if you are Along for the ride with him very Trumpian. I might add very very Trumpian He says I wish I could just wake up and it not be true, but it is. Oh, it is Yeah, that's how I think all of us have felt and like I have felt that way very starkly for the past three years. So I I Think a lot of people have felt that way. I've felt that way a lot longer than that I felt it probably since like 2012 when we started to do this race shit where we were just like if you if you didn't Identify people based off of their race you were racist and it was like what is happening so backwards so I felt it for about a decade now.