Oliver Anthony: The Rising Music Star Who Denounces Political Exploitation

2023-08-26 09:44:26

Thirty-something Oliver Anthony beat megastar Taylor Swift this week by taking first place in the US Billboard Hot 100 ranking. However, he denounces the political recovery around his music.

An American country singer, still completely unknown 15 days ago and today number one in music sales in the United States, rejected any political recovery on Friday August 25 following elected officials and Republican presidential candidates for 2024 tried to dub it.

With his piece of bluegrass Rich Men North of Richmond – named following the capital of Virginia 175 km south of Washington – Oliver Anthony, a 30-year-old farm worker, beat megastars Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Olivia Rodrigo this week to take first place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Unheard of for a musician who has never appeared in any music charts.

Released on August 11 on YouTube with its clip, the song, sold, listened to in streaming, downloaded, and seen on the internet more than 30 million times, has become in the United States the anthem of rural people who feel impoverished in the south. and central conservatives, once morest the supposedly wealthy urban progressives of the east and west coasts.

“It’s infuriating”

The success is such that Rich Men North of Richmond opened, Wednesday August 23 on Fox News, the debate between eight Republican candidates (in the absence of Donald Trump) in the primaries of the conservative party for the presidential election of 2024. The governor of Florida Ron DeSantis saw there a musical work committed once morest the economic policy of Democratic President Joe Biden. A number of elected officials and commentators on the right and the extreme right even consider it “the blue-collar political anthem” and “Americans Forgotten by the Government”.

But Oliver Anthony, a red-haired guy with a full beard, does not like these recovery attempts. “It’s infuriating to see people in the conservative media trying to identify with me as one of their own”he protested in a ten-minute video posted on YouTube. “It’s infuriating to see certain musicians and politicians act as if we were friends, as if we were fighting the same battles”he still rejected.

His anti-elite song, which denounces inflation, taxes, long working hours for poverty wages, but also social benefits, “has nothing to do with Joe Biden, it goes way beyond Joe Biden”. The singer says, sometimes on the verge of tears, “to hate that we use (at) song like a weapon” policy. “The right tries to brand me as one of their own and the left tries to discredit me, in retaliation I guess. This shit has to stop”warns the one who claimed to be “en square environment” socio-economic concerns of Americans.

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