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Oliver Anthony — "Rich Men North of Richmond" blue-collar protest song
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Oliver Anthony — "Rich Men North of Richmond" blue-collar protest song
50k ft — Why care?
A repost of Oliver Anthony's viral 2023 "Rich Men North of Richmond": a raw, single-guitar protest song about overtime work for low pay and taxes. Notable as a case study in a lo-fi outdoor performance going massively viral.
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• Lo-fi, one-take performances can outrun produced content
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BLUE COLLAR SONG OF THE YEAR???!!!
“Rich Men North Of Richmond” - @oliver_anthony_music_
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Transcript excerpt
I've been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours, for bullshit pay so I can sit out here and waste my life away. Drag back home and drown my troubles away, it's a damn shame. What the world's gotten to, for people like me, people like you, wish I could just wake up and not be true, but it is. Living in the name of the soul, the dredge man, nor the rich man, Lord knows that I'll just want to have total control. Want to know what you think, want to know what you do, and then I don't think you know, but I know that you do. It's your dollar, hate shit, and it's taxing on him, don't worry.