So I was reading the news and something I probably never would have known about happened because racist John Schneider (He was one of them duke boys) got his panties in a bunch about a musician making music in a genre he feels is only for white people. I am not linking John Schneider calling black people dogs for having to pee in the country western pool because it was on OAN and I will type a lot of shit but won't link to that site. But WTG as the song actually rocks and I would not have known about it if the stupid white racists didn't pitch a fit. I even turned off my ad blocker and put it on repeat a couple of times just to make sure she got her dime.
They lost Dixie Chicks and Taylor Swift, and gained Beyoncé and Darius Rucker. Seems fair to me. It's about having the same amount of country singers right? Not some other thing? Same amount of country singers. You'd think they'd be happy.
The Duke Boys were about the only reason to have any warm feelings about the South, the Stars and Bars and the General Lee. And Schneider just had to go be a Bad Ol' Boy - or a Bad Ol' Bo - instead.
Well, they threw The Chicks out on their ass over Bush and Taylor Swift rode Kayne's hijacking of her first award all the way to the bank into pop stardom. You'd think the country scene, which hasnt been taken seriously since bro country replaced the 2000's faux patriotism that the late Toby Keith ushered in, would be happy to have a major pop star bringing world wide recognition to the genre. We know why they're not