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so that is part of the blue collar ballad is uniting people worldwide, even as the medidea to use it to divide rich men. north of richmond is the name of the song and it has defied gravity. asit s the number one spot on apple music s global chart, not just here in the us. and here s the reason why. look a t, the faces of people listening to this song for the first time, all races, all people, differentvernme backgrounds blown away by how much it resonates with thentm, how much they relate to it. oliver anthony s country ballad highlights the plight of working class people who struggle to make enough money while, as he puts it, the politicians enrich themselves. here just some of the reaction to this song. watch. this is a song america info general. rather. this is the anthemr ic from 202. moving forward. this is the anthem, the truth brings tears to a real man s eyes. it brin. ....
You can t even borrow money now to buy a house or to sel.borrowo it s become completely impossible. and the line that i really c loe in the song outside of him talking about real things liketa and obesity, which are huge, huge problems throughout the countrlkand gey, he says th think you know, but i know you doow, but and the media s n is exactly what he s talking about. what htalkinyou know, what do yk about the reaction that is getting while i mea an, first of all, it s not my cup of tea. the song, the music, the stylesn that s not what i listen to. but that s not important, right? that s unimportantnot . lling i would i found it compelling about this whole thing was the not the songabthis w but the reaction videos, the actual videos that we showed, there were like 20 of them up there and they re all from different backgrounds in all different races. and it remindeckgrounds in alldg that we talked about on this show, obviously i hate media. wi it s probably the one that s why i m in ....
Song? well, in particular, this linear jumped out at me and i didn tt. read anything about it first whenthis i this is the first tie that i ve discussed it, i was like, i m just going to listen to the song. goingre was ng one thing that stuck out to me in a really positive way. one thing that was more negativd then we. ad thi then when i read the criticism, i thought, so this line, lord, we got folks in the streets . and got nothing to eat and the obese milking welfare. so obviouslyn th picking on fat people, that s the fat phobic criticism but it is using this classic welfare queen tropequee that goes back to the ninetiesnr and it s i don t think it s racially charged. we there are people oflly charge all races that are on welfare. a lot of thelf m are heavy and we all know that those that s out cruel to me. but the thing that stuck outo me in the positive direction and why i imagin posite there o much emotional reaction to this ging he line about how lon your hours are and how hard y ....
You can make an impact on the media is being inside it and trying to destroy the awful and evil nature of it. lid i ll telo destl you, it s al and evil. but we talked about what would life be likeke if it didn t exib . that s what it would be like, right? you just saw it when you saw the reactione likeu saw th videe him singing. that s what the world looks like. if the media wasn t there to to obliterate this sincere cohesion that exists between all men and women. that e between right?wouldn if the media didn t exist, there wouldn t be a filter that or tyou that this is a racist video or that it s it s know it s nostalgic or it s hatefulnh . but when the media is not there, that whole thinerges and crumbles and all of a sudden the whole race narrative falls apart as wel al, for example, race is not a conduit for communication. right? you see that song is actuallycon communication, right. and communicating to whitepl people, black people, ....
Hispanics, asians. so what you find out and what we hav.e to understand is that we are individuals. we do think or communicate as groups. we are individuals, wee to communicate to other people. and that means individuals within separat oe groups can hae as much in common or even more in common with individuals in other groups. a white guy can have more in common with the black guy, right? that sbl that s what this is really about. so when you look at that, this is to me, it s sad because it tells me what we could have had for the longest time if didn t have this grotesque, monstrous thing called the media. there are all these major themes in life, and pygmy doesn t change our shared aspirations for these themes. fortunately, the does. yeah. just why do you think that that these media representatives that greg talks about whthy cant they embrace this song? is it what is negatives lo thisl ....