Power abhors a vacuum, water fills every empty space it can get to, and hungry people are not picky. These are just a few examples of the simplicity of nature and desire. There is no such thing as emptiness, regardless of your ability to see, feel, or taste; there is always something more, something left undiscovered. There are mysteries occupying the spaces of our imagination.
In order to fill that vacuum, you must colonize and inhabit the space left open by your competitors, seizing the opportunity to establish dominance from your passive position. Both are not as daunting as you might suppose. But, you have to be ready when your moment arrives.
With the horrific innovations of “Bro Country,” “Hick Hop,” and black rappers passing their abominations on as “country,” it is very evident that country music, for the most part, is a genre that is completely unrecognizable from the traditions of its past. And although country music has been evolutionary to some extent, it has always been grounded in its traditions. It has mostly been a fusion of bluegrass and gospel, rock and blues, until recently.
Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Cash, etc. always portrayed the reality of the working man’s struggle. Though not always lyrically wholesome, many artists pushed the social envelope with their songs from a working-class perspective. Tammy Wynette’s “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.” and Hank Williams Jr.’s “Family Tradition” shocked the culture, and although their lifestyles may have been less than “Sunday School” perfect, it translated into authenticity. However, some lifestyles are too much for most country music fans to embrace.
Tyler Childers’ song “In Your Love” is about sodomite coal miners and has, quite predictably, pushed the tolerances of most country music fans. In my opinion, it has opened up an opportunity for someone to take the reigns as the “king of hillbilly holler” music. With the disgust that every normal person feels towards “Drag Queen Story Hour” pedophiles, and regardless of how people answer social surveys, most country music fans don’t like watching and listening to homosexuality glorified in the music of their people. I’m betting that Tyler Childers experiences some financial pushback going forward, just as Garth Brooks has. Also, I would not be shocked to hear about Childers coming out as openly queer in the future, as one of the Brothers Osborne did recently.
In the open space created by Mr. Childers’ disappointing and degenerate song, enters another red headed, hillbilly troubadour from the backwoods of Virginia/Appalachia (West Virginia is not real). Oliver Anthony, from completely out of nowhere and as if he were delivered by a bolt of lightning in a summer Southern thunderstorm, appears to be on a mission to transform the zeitgeist of today’s American country music and bring it back to its working man roots. Out of this cultural darkness, his haunting sound slammed into the atmosphere, setting the music industry and social media on fire and with a string of chart-topping hits coming from his very soul. Against all industry odds, Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” is soaring to unimaginable heights, breaking records that haven’t been reached since the Beatles and the British Invasion of the 1960s.
Was it his overwhelming talent that thrust him into the spotlight? Was it dumb luck? Or was there a vacuum in the twang space of country music left open by the missteps of other artists?
It’s obvious Oliver Anthony has talent. He’s perhaps not the best musician or even singer, but whatever he lacks on those levels, his cultural piercing lyrics landed a knife blow to the establishment. Both on the Left and Right, he is triggering the entertainment and news media from Rolling Stone to National Review. And although Identity Dixie has no affiliation to this country music godsend, the first line of his song “Rich Man’s Gold“ are exactly the words from an old ID meme used during the Great Meme War.
Whatever may come of this hillbilly phenomenon, we applaud Mr. Anthony and wish him well.
Deo Vindice!
God save the South!
Service to God and honor to the South.
Well, he embraces diversity as our strength. I’ll just leave that right there.
Thanks for your comment, an understandable sentiment.
But let’s take a win on this one. He’s pushing a populist message, and that helps our cause. We don’t need 100% power level to push our message. If the message is pushed, it helps.
Again, thanks for telling us how you feel.
Even if Oliver is a “third way” neither liberal or conservative and leans “hippie” overall, like Trump, it is exactly this kind of simple messaging that so many at ID have been recommending as THE STRATEGY to hit the big middle part of the curve where most normal people are. With the attention on him now, unless he overtly comes out as a leftoid, he is an asset to our greater cause of discrediting the system and its legitimacy. Our job is to hustle in making sure we have a cogent and appealing alternative for them to consider. Are we ready?
Yep! The message is right in the normal middle. We will capitalize on this, and we will be ready for November of next year. Our people will need a clear and robust alternative when they relinquish the idea of ever having a fair election.
The thirst is real. The vacuum is the spiritual death of a people, casting a long shadow in which the vestigial culture of those people becomes a self-parody used to hypnotize them into further submission as they consume the repackaged produkt instead of rejecting the entirety of the proposition out of hand.
That what passes for “the right”, “conservative”, etc continues to be so easily played by these “out of nowhere” plants is disappointing but entirely predictable at this point.
Even if the ginger strummer is not in on the gag he is being used just the same.
This is not some “perfect is the enemy of the good”. This is the formula TPTB have been using to destroy our heritage right in front of us for generations.
Which is why the dirt world plantation will continue to be captive to their masters.
The System of our occupying globohomo masters does not produce authentic dissident voices and then thrust them through the algos into every medium in 24 hours. He’s on big radio, big download; mainstream and alt-media alike. This is the “convergence” in real time. There are no grassroots here.
Nor are his lyrics particularly novel or moving, beyond the memeworld of machine gunning bud light and the “antiwoke” strawman that has mysteriously taken over actual dissident thought that had been forming a beachhead in the long languishing dirt world conservative movement – that also mysteriously never moves for reasons the ginger strummer fails to include in his poems.
I wish the power of ‘noticing’ and pattern recognition and comprehension of the inner workings of the media beast that has been running the decades long psyop would have more purchase among our people but alas, it has likely always been the way.
Now, “don’t let them divide us” as we circle the wagons once again around the trojan horse of Progress and celebrate the “win” against the tyranny.
I recently learned about rap and country music. I have Fears!
Fears that the movers and shakers know that the old guard is getting older and will very soon be gone.
Too, I read that now 85 percent of us are urban people. We live in cities. Many of us do not even have a relative or kin who owns a farm!
So. At this point, I suspect that the people in charge of country music sense that the
STREETS
are where the soul of the collective will soon lie. The ghetto. the lives of the poor and downtrodden. Thier joys and pains.
Thus “country music” could very well morph into “city music” as very soon most of us will live in cities and also no more extended families, culture, or religion.
[How many of *your* children now live in far-off cities, following
careers that are alien to your reckoning today?]