Right-wing singer – successful on Spotify

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Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond (Lyrics) - YouTube

Taking aim at politicians and their grantees, American factory worker and singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony, 31, has taken Spotify by storm with his song Rich Men North of Richmond. Now the successes are causing concern within the establishment, writes Rolling Stone.

 Reports say the song is about a poor worker who has been "let down by society". But from the original English-language text, it appears that the song is rather a jab at federal politicians who party with prostituted teenage girls, tax ordinary people and shower benefits on their favorite groups.

 Politicians are more interested in "minors on islands" than how American miners are doing, Anthony notes in his song, in an apparent reference to the many powerful people who have had fun with underage prostitutes on billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's island of Little Saint James in the West Indies.

 "My God, there are vagrants who have nothing to eat / while contributions are poured over the fat ones," reads another line.

 "If you're 160 centimeters tall and weigh 136 kilograms / taxes shouldn't line your bags of fudge rounds," the song goes on, apparently referring to a type of American fudge that is very popular especially among severely overweight African-American women.

 Armed with a resonator guitar and a powerful voice, the 31-year-old singles out "rich men north of Richmond" – federal politicians – as the root of the country's problems.

 Oliver Anthony, on the other hand, does not want to take a party political position. And he doesn't call himself a conservative.

 - I'm pretty damn in the middle when it comes to politics, he says in his own video that he uploaded the day before he released his now viral song.

 - I remember when I was a child and the conservatives wanted war, and I never understood it. And I remember a lot of weirdness when the left won the election, and you know, it really feels like both sides are serving the same boss.

 The reception in music magazines such as Rolling Stone has been largely positive, starved as they are for "authentic" music today. But within the mainstream media, the song arouses all the more concern, and is presented as directly problematic.

 AC Club reviewer Emma Keates, for her part, writes that while the song is not as "overtly threatening" as some other right-wing music, it is nevertheless based on "a series of insensitive stereotypes that creep into mainstream music in a problematic way".

 NBC News calls the newcomer "obscure" and notes at the same time that the song has quickly become the "new national anthem" of both the conservative right and the extreme right in the United States.

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