The legend of the welfare queen isn’t the only myth that Oliver Anthony is peddling.
, Riffe shot video of Anthony performing the bilious “Rich Men” on his own plot of farmland, complete with a pair of dogs sleeping nearby. The song’s lyrics are as unflinching as Sadler’s were: “Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat … Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground/’Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin’ them down.
The big difference between 1966 and 2023 is how fast that signal is boosted. Last week, “Rich Men North of Richmond” didn’t just reach No. 1, itthere, fueled by opening streams of 17.5 million and sales of 147,000 downloads. That’s even faster than what country veteran Jason Aldean pulled off in July, when he leveraged Trumpian grievance and liberal outrage to hurtle “” from a modest country-radio success to the top of the Hot 100 in two weeks.
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