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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Since countering Aldean's claim the video only contains "real news footage," Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.

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[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

He didn’t even write the song.

[-] progdoggy@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 years ago

So? He chose to record it. Pretty sure he understands English at at least a rudimentary level, and the choice of setting for the video was NOT a coincidence. He deserves all the derision he’s getting.

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I agree, I’m just a bit baffled as to why he would choose to do this song. I mean, it would be bad enough if he composed it, but to hear it and think “yes, I want to say that” is just beyond understanding for me. It’s almost like setting a trump speech to music. So. Weird.

Recent polling indicates that something like 20% of the country still think the election was stolen, so it’s not that surprising. All that Aldean did was to confirm to the world beyond a shadow of doubt who exactly he is as a person.

[-] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 3 points 2 years ago

@gravitas_deficiency @Jakdracula

Yup. He should change his name from Aldean to Aldumb.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"There's no such thing as bad publicity"

-Phineas T. Barnum

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 38 points 2 years ago

Almost none of them do. They’re just mouthpieces for the Nashville pop trash machine.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

And their fans don't give a shit. I've lurked on some Facebook posts about this in the last week and I want to barf.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your service.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Was he forced to perform it? Record it? Defend it?

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

He knew there's enough idiots who will take it up as their anthem as he rakes in the cash and laughs at how gullible his trash fans are

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No different than every other samey sounding auto tuned pop star

Country..hah, they wish. A pop artist having an accent and tickling the lizard parts of uneducated people's brains doesn't make you a country singer

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's all AI, these days. Or at least most of it sounds like some garbage an AI would write

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

With how garbage the lyrics are it's definitely AI. If I had no moral scruples and was asked to write a song like this, I could do a far better job.

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