Musicians whose political sympathies are to the right

Etta James

xpost Does Margo Price get played on Country radio, though? I'm not sure she's in danger of getting dropped from npr or wxpn for badmouthing Trump.

i saw novaselic speak at my college once. he was complaining about graffiti and people were booing him. it was funny.

Thanks Katherine, wasn't aware

xxp

uh i would wager sturgill had about one max two songs on the radio

both acts have been dropped from the radio and shunned from the nashville scene but probably had one or two tracks on the radio at one point in their careers

Until I see proof I'm going to keep believing that any Sturgill song that ended up on a mainstream Country radio playlist was put there by someone who was immediately terminated.

Not sure what we're arguing about here. Alt-Country artists, and artists who've been exiled from radio are free to be vocal about left sympathies in ways that Country stars are not.

Thanks Katherine, wasn't aware

She said more than that it might be good to have a woman as leader, though. She said she really likes May, that she's "wonderful" and "sensible".

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/in-conversation-with-kate-bush/

Who was that female singer that sang a tribute song to Ken Livingstone?

I quoted that right beneath Katherine's post tbh xp

So you did.

John Mellencamp, if he hasn't been mentioned yet

Really? I thought the 'Coog was Mr. Farm Aid / pro-union guy? And iirc he was pretty outspoken about hating GWB

How does Mellencamp lean to the right??: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mellencamp#Politics_and_activism

xp

wait a minute wtf am i thinking of someone else? i remember reading something written by either meg ryan or christie brinkley about how they "can't take john anywhere" because he rubs "snobby" celebrities the wrong way and that their "politics don't align"
hmm

I think that was a tabloid piece debunked by Brinkley herself

here

"I don't trust the government. I don't trust the Democrats. I don't trust the Republicans... Really I'm a socialist," Mellencamp says

Iggy Pop voted for Reagan btw:

"I've been waiting for someone who could communicate the joys of liberty as compared to the joys of equality", Iggy Pop in Zigzag magazine, on why he supported Ronald Reagan, quoted in Joe Ambrose, Gimme Danger: The Life and Times of Iggy Pop, Omnibus Books, 2004, p. 199.

i'm thinking dean ween is a republican, not sure why really. gene ween tweets about bernie a lot tho so who knows

also, who cares

oh look the son of a millionaire car dealership owner doesn't like "handouts" or paying taxes

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/02/kid_rock_blends_music_and_poli.html

Not the worst bad music writing in this piece but

He drew largely from his early catalog, including hits like "Devil Without A Cause" and "Only God Knows Why," but also sprinkling his set with more recent editions like "All Summer Long."

These are all mid-period Kid Rock in 2018.

Elvis

― pomenitul, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:54 PM (five days ago)

elvis said back in 1956 that he was voting for adlai stevenson

I was referring to this: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/oct/13/the10rightwingrockers

The meeting of the King and the President at the White House on 21 December 1970 was initiated by Elvis himself. Presley wrote a long, rambling six-page letter to Nixon, expressing his concern for the country and suggesting he could use his position to help as 'the drug culture, the hippie elements, the SDS, Black Panthers etc do not consider me as their enemy'. Presley also suggested he be made a 'Federal Agent-at-Large' in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. In their face-to-face meeting, Presley stressed his love of his country and told Nixon he was 'on your side'. He also said he had been studying 'communist brainwashing' and that the Beatles had been 'a real force for anti-American spirit'. Presley gave Nixon a commemorative World War II Colt 45, which the president sent him a thank you letter. The picture of Elvis and Nixon is the most requested item from the US National Archive, more so than the Bill of Rights or the Constitution of the United States.

there's a bad movie about the meeting starring michael shannon as elvis

and spacey as nixon iirc?

i think ascribing a political philosophy to elvis' increasingly pill-addled ramblings might be a stretch

pill-addled ramblings constitute 90% of that "uncool conservative beliefs" thread

lol

There are extremely few musicians who are right wing and who I am or have been interested in - off the top of my head I can think of Bryan Ferry and that's about it. But there are many writers (admittedly not contemporary ones).

NSBM to thread

Regarding the Elvis/Nixon thing, based on Careless Love, just about everything Elvis did from 1972 onward was done on drugs, for drugs. He wanted the badge from Nixon to travel with drugs and guns with impunity. It’s tragic how bad he got.

xpost metal's extreme right/fascism problem has been a hard stumbling block for me since I started listening to it. not just the musicians, man sometimes you're just chilling with a metal fan and then he just drops something anti-Semitic or extremely racist and then looks at you funny when you look at him with a judgmental eye.

I mean, I bought a dirty rap album growing up, and maybe I worried the dude wasn't a good guy and had a rap sheet. I bought a 2nd wave black metal album, I had to worry that I was giving money to dudes who viewed the Third Reich as a "missed opportunity".

A bunch of great conductors and composers were actively involved with the actual Third Reich, although I don't think any of them are still able to collect royalties.

yeah I sold my Li Stadelman bobblehead as soon as I found out

Ha

LL Cool J used to be (not sure if he still is)
Wayne Newton's creepy ass is
Agnostic Front's best album is ignorant as hell

https://www.villagevoice.com/2005/11/03/50-cent-defends-george-w-bush-against-kanye-west/

Connie Francis endorsed Nixon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKMvvPQU38U

but I'm not sure if she recorded this song of her own free will or if was forced into it by her domineering Mafioso dad

*if she was forced into it

Charlie Daniels posts this EVERY DAY

Benghazi ain’t going away!

— Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) February 26, 2018

Gary Barlow and Tony Hadley

xp

Maybe he's just trying to reassure the Libyans who live there.

I just idly googled Tommy Rock, bubblegum Fowley collaborator, and he has a homemade web site with a MAGA hat on it.

the dudes from Mr T Experience. one of whom wrote very nutbar blog articles in the Dubya era

How has MES gone missing from this entire thread?

Anyway a lot of these sound less like actual political opinions and more like persona-building provocations. As an affectation that douche's opinion on Medicare or whatever is probably doing the same work as his his cigarette holder.

ha yeah that's probably true

the dudes from Mr T Experience. one of whom wrote very nutbar blog articles in the Dubya era

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, March 3, 2018 10:39 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not complaining, I'm just figuring out
How everything left us behind
I got my problems, I'm aware of them
I'll take care of them, never you mind

You're still repeating prerecorded things
They used to say in universities and
Books on left-wing politics and law
About underlying structures that
So far as they mean anything
Still won't support the personal
Connections that you draw

Institutionalized misogyny
That's all that stands between
My baby and me

Whoo!

Now science tells us I'm hardwired to
I'm required to, do it with you
'cause I'm a man, and you're a woman
And that's what those kind of people do

I stole that line from Woody Allen
Isn't it amusing? I wish
I could make you understand
What Woody Allen meant
If there's no such thing as
Objective reality, why can't we quit
Our jobs and just imagine we won't
Have to pay the rent?

Institutionalized misogyny
That's why they're charging rent
To my baby and me

Michelle, ma belle: Ton beau
Michel Foucault
A Foucault dependence
Always ready to go

I think we're alone
I might have known (ooh!)
She's got Chomsky on the phone

Institutionalized misogyny
That's all that stands between
My baby and me
My baby and me
My baby and me

Tobin Sprout of GBV, at the very best bi-conservaturious.

GBV as a whole seem pretty conservative at least with a small c tbh.

A couple of Dictators have lost their minds on social media with their conservative views.

Dick Manitoba has become fiercely Zionist and was anti-Obama, pro-Netinyahu and very pro-Trump. A couple years ago be blocked me on Facebook when I explained why I thought Netanyahu was a neocon warmonger who did not help Israel and pointed out that I did so as a Jew (on mom's side even though dad's last name is far from Jewish) and before he blocked me he sent me a message that I was the kind of jew they threw in the ovens.

Also Ross The Boss is a notorious pro-Trump derp. My run in on Facebook was a little less contentious - he called me a "shitbird" when I said something about Trump he didn't like on a mutual friend's page. I guess it makes more sense when you consider he was in Manowar too.