... including Toby Keith, which is the hilarious thing
― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
^^^exactly!
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
I would venture to say country musicians are more liberal than their audience on the whole
― davon cuul II (m bison), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
what's going on here?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
life
― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Well I don't know, aren't country musicians generally conservative leaning?
yeah no
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Tim McGraw's a Dem.
― kkvgz, Friday, 15 July 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Brad Paisley
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
MIranda Lambert and Blake Shelton
there's certainly enough jingoism to go around country music but I wouldn't even call that a conservative trait, really (mostly thinking of Michael Moore's "why didn't we bomb the Saudis?" stance in "Fahrenheit 9/11" here)
― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
What kinds of music do Republicans genuinely enjoy?
― buzza, Friday, 15 July 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
SST always had a pretty strong strain of i guess uh...stoner libertarianism or something...but I always though Chuck Dukowski's quote "anarchy for me, facism for you" was a good a description of modern convervatism as anything
really ugly strains of right wing stuff and racism and stuff throughout thrash and metal, some of the thrash stuff i would imagine being handed down from hardcore punk
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 July 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
cf. Lester Bangs' "The White Noise Supremacists" about racism in the underground punk scene circa 1980.
― o. nate, Friday, 15 July 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
there's certainly enough jingoism to go around country music but I wouldn't even call that a conservative trait, really
I would! but then again I have been nothing but rong in this thread so
― Z S, Friday, 15 July 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
that one really unfunny early 90s SNL actress, etc
She had this hilarious -- but not in the way she meant -- video song called "There's A Communist Living in the White House" which was part of the Pasadena Tea Party operation.
― Gorge, Friday, 15 July 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Only Glenn Beck understands me"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 15 July 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
"Spread the wealth" is not actually a direct quote from the Communist Manifesto, at least not the translation I have.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 15 July 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
If big cash wasn't involved Hollywood movies would be way more liberal
― President Keyes, Friday, July 15, 2011 1:51 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
But "Big Business" is always the bad guy in Hollywood! The venal capitalist out to screw everyone over so he can get paid is a trope!
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah he's usually played by Michael Ironside
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 July 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
The last anti-"big business" movies i can think of are alien trilogy and robocop. i'm trying to think of a more recent example, like maybe jurassic park, but they made attenborough too lovable in that.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 15 July 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Generalization from personal experience: all metalheads are stoner libertarians
― thewufs, Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
The last anti-"big business" movies i can think of are alien trilogy and robocop.
What, are you kidding? Off the top of my head I can think of Avatar, Erin Brockovich, A Civil Action and Michael Clayton (three of which were Best Picture nominees), sci-fi crap like Death Race and Rollerball, the Bond flick Quantum of Solace, the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movies . . . if I sat and gave it some thought I bet I could easily come up with 50 or more from the last 10 years.
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wall-E...
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
victoria jackson is a vintage ws of shame
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
Obviously a lot of conservative people like "conservative" music, just as a lot of radicals like "conservative" music as well. And the other way round too.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 16 July 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
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― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, July 15, 2011 2:24 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
Is he for real liberal though? I just checked out one of his records from the library and it had some dumb line about "rebel flag flying" that didn't sound too apologetic about it. What's his deal, really?
― grit of ad hominem (kkvgz), Friday, 22 July 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
Hollywood lol. Isn't it Hollywood career suicide to come out too early?
― owenf, Friday, 22 July 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link