I just heard another musical performance from the Toilet Paper USA alternative half-time show, this time by Lee Brice. It’s a perfect caricature of a country-western song.
I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer
And not wake up to all this stuff I don’t want to hear
Like the same kind of gun I hunt with, just killed another man
The only thing mine ever shot was deer from my deer stand
I just want to cut my grass, feed my dogs, and wear my boots
Not turn the TV on, sit and watch the evening news
Be told if I tell my own daughter that little boys ain’t little girls
I’d be up the creek in hot water in this “cancel your ass” worldIt ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays
The direction, the finger’s pointing when everything goes up in flames
Saying I’m some right-wing devil ’cause I was down South, Jesus raised
It ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays
Pathetic whiner. This has got to be a joke — if I were asked to write a mocking satire of a country-western song, I’d churn out something that bad. He already gets to do all the things he listed, except that he doesn’t like to hear anything he might disagree with. This is a song about a world where everyone who has a different opinion than he does has to be silenced, while he whimpers about being persecuted.
I usually try to make excuses for despising the whole country-western genre — there are a few artists who break the boring goddamn conventions — but no, not any more. These people are anti-artistic leeches.
“Jesus raised” – spot the problem right there.
There is a video on YouTube by a channel called There I Ruined It from two years ago making fun of “bro country music”. People in the comments joked about how they could put it in the playlist at many parties and people wouldn’t even notice. THEY thought they were joking, but again, satire proves a more accurate reflection of reality than anything else.
Quite literally a conflict that could have been solved by turning off the TV and going fishing instead. With stakes that high, surely this man is the most persecuted man in our time.
Pretty sure he can do ALL that shit he mentions. Where’s the problem.?
The problem is that he might hear some lib telling him about gun deaths and trans people. He doesn’t want to hear any of that downer stuff.