Hmm, not sure “country fans don’t care that an artist used the n-word” is the heartwarming underdog story this article thinks it is.
Controversies
On February 2, 2021, TMZ released a video recorded on January 31 showing Wallen using the [n-word] with friends as they were entering his Nashville home. He issued a statement apologizing for using the racial slur.
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In April 2021, following the surge in album sales, Wallen donated $300,000 to the Black Music Action Coalition in the names of 20 people who had counseled him following the incident.
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On July 23, 2021, Wallen publicly spoke of his comments on Good Morning America, where he said that “he was around some of his friends, and they say dumb stuff together” and said that “he was wrong” to express those words. […] Wallen was nominated for Favorite Male Country Artist and Favorite Country Album for the 2021 American Music Awards, but was not invited to attend the ceremony, and was consequently unable to accept any awards if he won, which he did not.
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Wallen performed with Ernest at the Grand Ole Opry in January 2022 to perform the latter’s single “Flower Shops.” This performance was immediately met with criticism by some fans and other musicians, especially as it came only six months after the Grand Ole Opry’s Twitter account made a statement against racism at the institution.
$300,000
The cost of one N-word pass.
Entire nation unsurprised by country music artist’s racism, immediately close NYT tab in browser.
Lol i heard about this from my mom who couldn’t believe “people are mad bc he said a word.” :doomer:
Country music (at least the kind that comes on the radio, I’ve been assured there’s better stuff out there) is substance-free schlock for people who are so dumb and one-dimensional they make cartoon characters look complicated. It should be considered a human rights violation that I’m forced to listen to it at work.
At work it’s literally the only station that comes in, and company policy states that we must have the radio on
Yeah. The only two other channels are a right wing local radio and the christian gospel station. We also need aux cord to hook up to the reviver, last dude who brought one in had it stolen so nobody wants to
SITTIN HERE DRINKIN BEER
MUH BIG GREEN TRAKTURRR
In a communist society everyone who makes “”“music”“”" like this and everyone who likes it will be going to the repurposed Guantanamo bay and waterboarded in piss u till they fucking die
Modern radio country is just the right wing of the pop music industry.
The genre itself has radical routes and plenty of much smaller artists carrying on that tradition, in the same way pop hip hop and pop rock are mostly inane drivel while there’s good musicians who aren’t getting credited for the advancement of the art hidden from site
There’s some folk music that I adore, and I know there’s a lot of shared heritage there. Bluegrass is pretty great, too.
Every country song on the radio, without fail, is a white guy with two mansions praising the lifestyle of white suburbanites in smaller mansions who get pissed off if they’re seated near black people at Applebee’s.
The only three topics for modern country songs are expensive trucks, alcoholism, and always making sure you never have thoughts in your head critical of white America.
It also plays on the radio at my job and I’m losing my mind.
You mean the girl in a country song?
Ever heard bo burnhams song mocking modern country ?
This song got under my dads skin so bad at first but he eventually came around lol
