Gigem314 said:
JB!98 said:
BurnetAggie99 said:
Yea Isabell and Childers plus Sturgill Simpson is also liberal. What's shocking is both Childers and Simpson grew up in rural conservative Kentucky. Jason Isabell from also conservative Alabama. You question what the hell happened there. They say they have influences like Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Merle Haggard and so forth but choose to forget their country upbringing and roots
It always make me wonder if they feel like they need to say these things even though they don't necessarily believe them.
I would imagine this happens more often than we think.
These artists get a taste of success and money, with more people telling them what they need to do...so they compromise in order to not rock the boat. I would imagine most executives, labels, and media people in the industry are pretty far to the left, even in country. Artists become surrounded by these people in a huge bubble, and less connected to the real world. It's no surprise they become more populist the further they move up. I'm sure some of them are true believers, but I doubt they all are. I would imagine the pressure of having an "accepting" public image on social issues is immense. Any little thing that could make you appear as "not caring" could destroy your career or close the doors on big opportunities.
Someone mentioned Stapleton's "The world is different than it was before George Floyd" comment, and I remember when that came out. It was in midst of all these artists rushing to their social media to virtue signal over it on a daily basis. Stapleton's comment was brief and seemed almost forced, like he had to say something and did the bare minimum. Maybe he's left of center, but I haven't seen him make any other preachy comments about politics like many of today's artists do - particularly the female country artists.
Several months ago, Michael Berry was talking about the politics within music and how many "country" artists are big libs. He mentioned that there are also several very conservative musicians as well, especially within the Red Dirt scene. He talked about one of them being ultra conservative and almost Ted Cruz like, but will never say so publicly due to his management team not wanting it to potentially hurt him. Michael was like "I'm not going to tell you his name, but rat mean..." where he essentially said it was Pat Green.
I kind of already knew this was happening, but I guess it was validation for what I had suspected.
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You hear stories of early female artists in the music industry from the 60's/70/'s/80's having to be a certain way, or do things that compromised their values, in order to move forward in their careers. I think the woke movement in the music industry (most recently country) and the long-time leftist bubble of Hollywood is the modern version of that for ALL artists.
As someone who was born in the early-80's and was coming of age when Reba was at the height of her career, I've always wondered what her number is. You know she worked her way up, Fancy style.
