When Morgan Wallen drunkenly uttered the “n” word at one of his friends after a night of hard partying in Nashville, many thought his budding career was over. Wallen subsequently attempted to apologize to appease the woke mafia, and took some time off from music.
Of course, his record label and country music radio cowardly did what the left demanded and suspended all of Wallen’s music and dropped him from touring. It didn’t matter that Wallen was talking to his white friend at the time, the damage was done.
Or maybe not. Country music fans like what they like, and they liked Morgan Wallen. His sales went through the roof, and since ultimately it’s all about the money and not really the virtue, his label and country radio took him back with open arms, much to the pearl clutching and salty tears of leftists everywhere. Now, with his latest album being a gargantuan, 36 song success, his latest number one, “Last Night” has prompted lefties in the media to take aim once again and attempt to downplay Wallen’s success. Fox News reports:
Country music star Morgan Wallen’s number one hit “Last Night” has the liberal media up in arms about the singer’s past, pointing to attempts to cancel him in 2021 after video surfaced of him drunkenly using the N-word shortly after nationwide Black Lives Matter protests dominated headlines.
“Numerically speaking, this new song is not topping the charts by uniting disparate audiences. It’s not (yet, maybe ever) a song for everybody,” Slate Magazine’s Chris Molanphy wrote of the hit last Friday.
“And whatever its musical merits, you get the sinking feeling it’s being boosted by an audience that’s trying to prove a point, and maybe even … own the libs?” he wrote.
That is some damn fine journalistic work by Slate Magazine. Not. What the crack journalist fails to mention, is it is a great song. Country music fans want to hear good music that speaks to them, and not overtly to a political platform. However, if that platform happens to be conservative, as most country fans are, then all the better.
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Even if it is partially to prove a point, so what? The woke establishment attempted to kill the career of a budding young star that makes undeniably good music for uttering a word that they don’t like. Money ultimately talks, and country fans made theirs scream loudly. Slate Magazine continued to shed tears via Fox News:
“Is the ascension of “Last Night” a sign of Wallen’s wholesale acceptance by music listeners nationwide? Or is it a kind of niche-driven data activism, by the sort of reactionary fan who chants “Let’s go Brandon” at a Wallen concert?” he later added.
In the piece, he alleged Wallen’s fanbase doesn’t spread to others invested in other genres as other artists might, concluding by saying, “He’s [Wallen] not a uniter, he’s a triangulator—and when you zoom out, his seemingly crowded tent still looks awfully small.”
The Guardian labeled him “America’s controversial country star,” pointing to previous criticism from New York Times music writer Jon Caramanica, who critiqued Wallen’s “vague atonement” for his sins, “no mention of racial justice or change” and “no stopping his audience members from turning his success into a political weapon” by shouting remarks about President Biden during his shows after returning to the stage.
All of this is, of course, nonsense. If Wallen’s fan base doesn’t spread to others in vested in other genres, then there must not be much of a fan base for other genres. Wallen’s music is loved by people across genres. The Slate article fails to mention Wallen’s collaboration on the hit song “Broadway Girls” with rapper Lil Durk, or his crossover success with hybrid country-rocker Hardy on his song “red”.
The fact is, the left failed to cancel Morgan Wallen, and his status as king of country music has them up in arms. Every record Wallen sells, every number one hit he has will only serve to drive leftists crazier, and that’s all the more reason to support Morgan Wallen.
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