gotdam frickin milkshake duck is undefeated
Bullshit song by a very misinformed person.
It is so close to hitting the mark, but just… misses.
Be angry at politicians legislating against the good of the populace? Absolutely!
Be angry at someone who needs a social safety net that also might like sweets? Bad, redneck! Bad!
Guy who writes a song bitching about obese people on welfare is both stupid and an asshole, shouldn’t be a surprise
Holt said that it’s typical for political movements to latch onto cultural artifacts like music or movies to broaden their reach. But in this case, Holt warned that the individuals seizing on the song may lead unsuspecting audiences into their extremist spheres.
Among the early online boosters of the song were Matt Walsh, a far-right commentator who has fanned anti-LGBTQ sentiment. Walsh posted the song to his X account, to 1 million views. Jack Posobiec, a rightwing activist who promoted the false Pizzagate conspiracy theory and has documented ties with white nationalists, shared it on his X account to more than 5 million views.
Not an accident, the song’s author apparently thinks Jewish people did 9/11
Also, on the subject of this song being “breakout/viral” - how hard is it to manipulate streaming numbers? Harder than buying palettes of right wing political screeds to get them onto best seller charts? Because that’s definitely happened before and it’s all the same people involved here
Also, on the subject of this song being “breakout/viral” - how hard is it to manipulate streaming numbers?
It’s seemed like the numbers there are 'semi-'manipulated in the way that Kpop can be - hugely inflated by deliberate rewatching and multi-platform streaming, but by individuals who genuinely want the song to do well, rather than bots or purchased fake stats.
It’s really seemed like ‘the right’ sees Oliver Anthony as “their guy” and rallied behind him and his song in order to push it up the charts as an imagined way of ‘owning the libs’ - and I think OA’s industry backing worked hard to seed that narrative among those circles in order to elicit that sort of boosterism from them.
What a weird choice of a song by the GOP. I mean, yeah, it makes fun of poor people who are overweight… but most of the song is about how bad the very people up on stage are.
Incumbent Republicans have been running on “Washington DC is terrible and everyone there is a horrible crook” messaging for decades, their voters “know” it’s not them the song is talking about (“know” in quotes because there’s no textual basis for that belief and the literal lyrics of the song taken out of context could be describing Mitch McConnell or whoever, but Republicans have never let pesky facts get in the way of a good hate and they’re not about to start here)
The song isn’t a problem by itself but many of the people who are listening to it are problematic.
