I have unlocked (lol UNLEASHED more like, amirite) a Roy Edroso Breaks It Down episode featuring lyrics from the latest country/hatecrime hit, "I Done Kilt Me a He-She."
This is obviously inspired by the Jason Aldean song that has all the fash swooning. Country music has degenerated over the past few decades (I know some of you keep up with it and have contemporary faves, feel free to drop in comments) but man, this shit is a ground-zero nadir. The music is just barrel-bottom sludge. As for the (ugly and stupid) lyrics and video, you can't argue (as Aldean has disingenuously tried) that they're about anything other than hatred of outsiders -- the guy doesn't even bother to stick in some (lazy, maudlin) tributes to his own country way of life until after he's stoked a ton of rube-rage with the sort of clips of urban violence that dumb racists like to vomit into Twitter. So it's obviously not a hymn to small towns -- it's about violent, unreasoning hatred of cities and the sort of people who live in them (hint hint), and pre-emptive threats of violence to make the weak-minded feel strong and brave.
More than once I've made the case that fascists can make art, but this ain't art, it's bullshit.
UPDATE: Maybe this'll be the breakthrough Buddy Brown's been looking for.
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