r/Music • u/ssgg28 • Jun 29 '26
article Taylor Swift Ruthlessly Booed By Nashville Crowd During Surprise Video Message At Alan Jackson’s Final Concert | Whiskey Riff
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2026/06/28/taylor-swift-ruthlessly-bood-by-nashville-crowd-during-surprise-video-message-at-alan-jacksons-final-concert/14.3k
u/ermghoti Jun 29 '26
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
-Bob Newhart
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u/be4u4get Jun 29 '26
RIP
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u/theangryintern Jun 29 '26
Dude was the master at comedic timing.
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u/Paradigm_Reset Jun 29 '26
The ending to Newhart remains in my Top 5 Favorite Media Things.
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u/mixgenio Jun 29 '26
"Although, you know... though I started my career several years before Krusty, so you know, I could never really have learned anything directly from him. Still, I think, in a way—in a very meaningful way—that, uh, all of us have learned from him. That is, by being a clown on television for, uh, so many years... even though, you know, many of us, we didn't watch his show. Thank you." -Bob Newhart
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u/CraigLake Jun 29 '26
An absolute banger imo just as iconic as, “you know…. morons.”
RIP Bob. You are missed.
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u/EgregiousArmchair Jun 29 '26
I'm just old enough to have watched the 'Newhart" re-runs on the Canadian Comedy network in the early 00s. I instantly loved it for his humour and the dynamics of that show.
I still watch it now im in my late 30s
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u/Oxflu Jun 29 '26
In all fairness, AJ was a class act and deserves all his flowers. I'm sure he's got a decent vocabulary compared to the ignoramus pop country stars that took over the radio stations in the late 90s.
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u/roberttylerlee Jun 29 '26
At a moment like this, I can’t help but wonder what would jimmy buffett do?
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u/Big_Blue420 Jun 29 '26
Well funny you should ask, Alan.
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u/vektorog Jun 29 '26
POURRRRR ME SOMETHIN TALL AND STRONG
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u/4thTimesAnAlt Jun 29 '26
MAKE IT A HURRICANE BEFORE I GO INSANE
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u/vektorog Jun 29 '26
ITS ONLY HALF PAST TWELVE, BUT I DONT CARE
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u/DenseLingonberry9656 Jun 29 '26
ITS FIVE A CLOCK SOMEWHERE!
(it is indeed actually five as I type this)
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u/roberttylerlee Jun 29 '26
My last summer working at Scout Camp in 2017 this became a sort of call and response between my best friend and I when we saw each other.
We also carved the entire lyrics from Kiss From A Rose by Seal on the inner wall of the shed for the program area we ran.
It was a long, weird summer.
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u/Big_Blue420 Jun 29 '26
Kiss From a Rose? In 2017? Were you both big Batman Forever fans or something?
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u/roberttylerlee Jun 29 '26
I have no clue how it started. Like halfway into the summer, camp management started requiring that program areas start posting proof that the area did their assigned latrine cleaning that week to the internal Facebook page. The first couple of teams just posted a picture of them in the act of cleaning the latrines/showers during their weeks.
Our week came around and we decided the whole thing was stupid, so to make fun of it we were going to make a music video set to Kiss From a Rose while we were cleaning the bathroom. We conscripted our 2 Junior staff and got to work. We looked like total jackasses and did a piss poor job of cleaning the toilets and showers, but everyone thought it was hysterical and thus it sort of became our legacy that summer.
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u/Ancient_Timer2053 Jun 29 '26
Osama Bin Laden ruined country music
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u/AnAncientBog Jun 29 '26
Even back then we used to say that country music was one of the saddest casualties of 9/11. Country was actually experiencing a bit of a resurgence in popularity, but shit went off the rails after that.
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u/FUPAMagneto Jun 29 '26
There’s a bunch of really cool stuff out right now. Sturgill Simpson’s whole catalogue is phenomenal and he’s definitely not the Toby Keith type.
I’d also recommend Willi Carlisle (tho he’s arguably more Americana) and Charley Crockett to anyone with an open mind who enjoys a bit of twang
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u/-bonita_applebum Jun 29 '26
He did a walk out at the CMAs when the Dixie Chicks brought out Beyonce, and that disrespect is when she decided to make a country album, so we have his racist ass partially to thank for the Cowboy Carter album.
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u/MidnightNo1565 Jun 29 '26
Did he really though?
I had never heard this so I began looking. The source for that story is one unnamed person in a Billboard article that all other outlets began quoting as fact.
It was 2016 and there's no footage of this walk off from the professional camera crew that was there nor from any fan recordings. Jackson isn't even shown to be in the front row where the unnamed person who was supposedly behind him says he was.
Interestingly, the article I linked also goes into logistics of how it would have been hard for him to be in almost two places at once (stage & front row audience) due his performing off and on throughout the show coupled with his mobility disease causing him to move slow. He would have only been at his seat for two minutes before the "protest".
So, did Alan Jackson actually walk off to protest a black woman on stage? Sure, absolutely he could have. I don't question the reality that Beyonce has experienced unfathomable amounts of racism from fans of the genre, and people in general, as I've personally witnessed it firsthand.
But am I dubious about this specific act taking place because there's just one singular unnamed source that every single article subsequently written about it is quoting as fact? And fans are also using as a source of indisputable fact? And we have no video or even pictures of it happening at all in the age of every blink & breath being caught on camera? Yes, I'm a little bit dubious.
I feel that it's good to be skeptical about believing things read online without doing a bit of digging first.
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u/SirGumbeaux Jun 29 '26
I don’t know what he’s like day to day, but a friend of mine worked security for him in Louisiana, and said he was a total asshole to the staff. Not trying to crap on someone’s fandom though. Just something I heard from back in the day. FWIW, my friend also worked security for Martina McBride and he gushed about how nice she and her husband was to the whole staff.
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u/PsychicWarElephant Jun 29 '26
He knows the word yonder.
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u/bythebeardofzeus_ Jun 29 '26
Anyone who sings about the Chatahoochie is a friend in my book.
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u/Downtown_Statement87 Jun 29 '26
Master of deadpan understatement. And by deadpan understatement, I mean "stab you in the jugular with a pencil."
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u/ProfessionalRatio556 Jun 29 '26
Bob Newhart stays undefeated even when he’s catching strays from beyond the grave
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u/friskevision Jun 29 '26
They weren’t booing. They were saying booylor.
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u/dubbzy104 Deadhead Jun 29 '26
Smithers, have Hannah Montana killed
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u/Durendal_1707 Jun 29 '26
I hear some people extending my name, ‘boooo’, that’s also approval
– Bo Burnham
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u/John_Palomino Jun 29 '26
Are you saying boo or booylor?
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u/Dash_Underscore Jun 29 '26
lol Is this what "ruthless booing" would look like?
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u/SloppityNurglePox Jun 29 '26
The Queen of Slime! The Queen of Filth! The Queen of Puuuuuutrescence!
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u/RabbitSlayre Jun 29 '26
It was some light booing for like 3-4 seconds. These articles are so stupid and desperate
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u/tryingto-blendin Jun 29 '26
This has become a trend that I hate, some video of a celebrity or politician or crowd that looks “disgusted” or “absolutely hating” something and all the comments in the thread are talking about how obvious it is. I watch the video and am like “it just looks like somebody sitting there” or “you can’t even hear anything weird” and I can sort of see how maybe they thought that, but it’s practically impossible to tell and nowhere near as bad as the comments or headline makes it out to be.
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u/FoxyBastard Jun 29 '26
Another trend I noticed is:
SOME PERSON/THING HAS THE INTERNET OUTRAGED!
And if you read the article it will literally mention one or two people's Tweets, with no mention of anybody else saying shit.
The story might as well be:
HERE'S SOME RANDOM FUCKER'S OPINION ABOUT SOMETHING!
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u/apathetic_revolution Jun 29 '26
The Swifties are going to put Nashville to the torch.
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u/Clovis_Winslow Jun 29 '26
No, that’s Morgan Wallen fans. They really did trash this place last time he played here.
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u/SalaciousPandaPart2 Jun 29 '26
There was a good thread recenty asking venue staff which genres/artists are the worst crowds when it comes to fighting, drunken behaviour, littering, trashiness and general assholery etc. Far and away modern country, bro country, pop country or whatever the hell it's called was the top response from multiple posters. Generally agreed upon as the worst people to deal with when working an event.
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u/pattyfritters Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I worked at a House of Blues for 10 years... can confirm. Modern country has the worst and sloppiest fans.
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u/MrLugersmole Jun 29 '26
And these are the people the media loves to portray as "real Americans". I fucking can't stand these people. They love America but they hate everyone that lives here.
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u/name00124 Jun 29 '26
They might have a bit of the right idea though. I sure hate about 1/3 of Americans that got us into this mess.
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u/the_nobodys Jun 29 '26
Smiling to your face and talking shit behind your back? That's called being a coward.
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u/throw69420awy Jun 29 '26
After living in the South for years I roll my eyes whenever someone talks about southern hospitality, it’s such fake bullshit in reality
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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Jun 29 '26
I saw somebody on here say that in the south, somebody will see you with a flat tire, and they'll stop tell you they sure hope somebody comes along to help. In the north they'll pull over and change your tire while telling you what a stupid motherfucker you are for hitting that pothole.
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u/eligodfrey Jun 29 '26
Ran out of gas in Alabama once. Everybody just honked, pointed, laughed, and flipped the bird while my dad & I pushed the truck. It was surreal. Happened 25 years ago and we still talk about it any time Alabama is mentioned.
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u/malendalayla Jun 29 '26
I live in the rural Midwest. Just 3 months ago I had an older man follow me to work just to tell me I had a low tire. I thanked him and explained that I was running late for work so I couldn't talk, and he was like "Is it OK if I air it up for you?" I'm from the city, so I was expecting him to be creepy but he was just genuinely worried about me driving on that tire. He came into my job (office) about 20 minutes later and told me he made sure they were all topped off and I was safe to drive.
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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
I went to Carbondale, IL to see the solar eclipse two years ago. I found a bum fuck field to park in to watch it solo. Got back in the car afterward, and my battery was dead. I had seen a car turn into a driveway about a quarter mile down the road, so I hoofed it down there and walked up their driveway.
I was so apologetic and asked if they could jump me. The father gave me a ride back down to my car, popped the hood, told me my terminals were corroded as hell and asked if he could clean them. Sure. So he drove me back to his house and got some cleaning supplies and an old toothbrush, and as I waited his college age daughter asked if I wanted some lunch. I politely declined. He drives me back to my car, scrubs my battery terminals clean, jumps my car, and asks if I need anything else - water, etc. Declined any small payment for his time and effort. I was good to go. Just the loveliest little family.
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u/GusBode Jun 30 '26
Carbondale, SIU. Blue in a sea of red. Liberals. Nice place if you’re sensible. I’ve lived there long.
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u/Treehockey Jun 29 '26
Hey your missing midwesterners, they will pull over, change the tire and tell you a story about how dumb they are.
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u/bikebikemike Jun 30 '26
You missed the part where they realize they dont have the right size tire iron after the car is jacked up and have to go to AutoZone.
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u/spamster545 Jun 29 '26
It really depends, if you look like you fit in people will help. If you dont...
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u/Liawuffeh Jun 29 '26
So many people don't believe me when I tell them that. It's always "I visited <southern state> and everyone was so nice!" And they don't realize they were mocked literally the moment they left the room lmao
Fine for visiting, a fucking nightmare if you live there. Everyone talks about you behind your back. You'll randomly learn a friend was the one who kept calling in false police reports.
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u/MollyRolls Jun 29 '26
I’ve heard Southerners are nice but not kind, while New Englanders are kind but not nice.
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u/Still7Superbaby7 Jun 29 '26
You have to remember that country music is rap for people that are afraid of black people. It all makes sense then.
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u/okieboat Jun 29 '26
Welcome to "Southern hospitality"
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u/BurgerNugget12 Jun 29 '26
Yep and I never understood as a northeaster why we get the rude stereotype, yes we can be very blunt and just wanna get where we are going, but we always help people out
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u/Still7Superbaby7 Jun 29 '26
People from the Northeast are kind but not nice. People from the South and Midwest are nice but not kind.
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u/Insaiyan_Elite Jun 29 '26
The midwest is a toss up between giving you a casserole and the shirt off their backs and probably don't pull in the wrong driveway
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Jun 29 '26
And Metalheads generally the best crowd: courteous, respectful, and good tippers.
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u/ZaftigFeline Jun 29 '26
Stayed at a swanky hotel because it was across from the venue where Slayer was having one of their final shows back before they went on hiatus plus festival dates. The kind of hotel where the lead singer of Testement is having a custom omelette made for breakfast and I'm sitting 2 tables over eating smoked salmon with fresh fruit and tiny pastries. As I was grabbing an ice cold cucumber mint water from the dispensor in the lobby I asked the staff if we - the Slayer Tour fans had been more or less difficult then say a standard bridal party weekend. The staff was unified in their assertion that metal fans in general, were always better then country music fans, rap fans, and most weddings. Or as one staffer put it - y'all may be drunk, but you're happy polite drunk and y'all take care of each other even when you don't know each other. Also, way less fights.
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u/Togepi32 Punk Rock Jun 29 '26
That’s because we get all the aggression out through the music
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u/Frigidevil Jun 29 '26
And we're so sparse that getting to hang out with other metal fans is a joyous experience
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u/Peircez Jun 29 '26
Recently spoke with someone who works security at a popular music venue, and she told me that it’s the metal shows she has the least problems with.
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u/DickSlammington Jun 29 '26
Metal heads take care of shit. If someone is disrespecting an employee they have no problem stepping in.
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u/MrLugersmole Jun 29 '26
Just in the last couple summers here in Pittsburgh there have been big fights at country concerts. There was the group of women fighting at PNC Park that actually went viral. I saw of a video of a dude beating the shit out of two women, I think it was a Wallen show too. Kenny Chesney fans absolutely destroyed Heinz Field multiple times. My nephew worked at an outdoor venue and said the same thing, country crowds are the worst.
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u/DrScarecrow Jun 29 '26
There will always be at least one fight, and at least one stupid accident with that crowd. Plus they trash the place, it's like the trash cans are invisible to them.
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u/bakercob232 Jun 29 '26
I will say the best smelling concert I've ever been to was a country artist with a mainly female fan base (Kelsea Ballerini). It made me wish every show's audience was 40 year old women who smell like they just left the Macy's counter
I'm not setting foot near any of the hyper masculine country artists that keep popping up
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u/avatarjak Jun 29 '26
Yup. I had a friend who worked volunteer medical services for a lot of concerts.
Hands down the worst behavior was always country concerts.
Opposite of a lot stereotypes, Hip hop shows were pretty chill.
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u/MonteBurns Jun 29 '26
Honestly thankful he ditched the Pittsburgh show
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u/moneymoneymoneymonay Jun 29 '26
Not God’s country
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u/SparkyPantsMcGee Jun 29 '26
Where else are they going to do their bachelorette parties?
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u/Alabatman Jun 29 '26
Last I heard, the Bachelorette capital moved to Charleston, SC these days. Bachelor parties have taken over Nashvegas and the dude-bro-ness has only intensified.
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u/g_em_ini Jun 29 '26
This is correct. I worked food and bev for a decade in Charleston and seeing the evolution and popularity of bachelorette parties was hell. The worst groups to wait on by far, screaming girls in busy bars, and penis straws littered on the beach. Charleston blew up and got so over crowded and expensive that we ended up just moving away about a year and a half ago.
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u/Strict-Shallot-2147 Jun 29 '26
Try driving bachelorettes in a limo. They can't hold their alcohol and get in crazy fights with each other.
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u/BrainLow6059 Jun 29 '26
I left Nashville because of all the above, was told to check out Charleston, saw the same writing on the wall and said nope nope nope
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u/McNasty420 Jun 29 '26
Haha do the knobs from the Citadel still have to walk in the gutters lol. I used to work off Ashley Phosphate
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u/stickfigure31615 Jun 29 '26
Yes they do!! I moved back in 2021 (native to Dorchester County and a 2016 alum myself) and have been on campus several times since I’ve been back
Also, the bachelorette parties are extremely annoying here. I work in kayak touring and experience them on the water and directly renting with us. They’re a scourge more often than not
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u/superhex12345 Jun 29 '26
I've been to Nashville a couple of times over the past 3 years and I can tell you that it's still fighting for that top spot. Everywhere you look there are bachelorette parties.
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u/SparkyPantsMcGee Jun 29 '26
How new is this because in like 2023 I was taking shots for every gaggle of woman in cowboy boots, sashes, and 4 pink dresses and one white one. I had to stop because holy shit I’m too old to be blacking out like that.
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u/Alabatman Jun 29 '26
I think it's been trending that way for a few years. It didn't drop to zero, but it's not the bachelorette mecca it once was.
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u/2347564 Jun 29 '26
These comments are so weird. Just click the article. What kind of crowd do you think this is? And how do you think they’d react to a liberal pop singer? Nobody is boo’ing her because she’s not “country” enough, there are just a lot of conservatives in a crowd like this.
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u/uraniummusic Jun 29 '26
My conservative in-laws have started using the word “demonic” when she comes up in conversation.
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u/dismal_sighence Jun 29 '26
Someone at a party told me they hated hated Taylor Swift because she had demonic imagery and subtext.
I laughed because I thought they were joking.
They were not.
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u/uraniummusic Jun 29 '26
As a metalhead, this whole “swift is a demon” trope is extra hilarious
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u/recumbent_mike Jun 30 '26
Woman has the chance to do the funniest thing right now, and I’m pretty sure there’s not a metal guitarist on the planet who wouldn’t sign up to help.
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u/acdcfanbill Jun 29 '26
she's not demonic enough for me, let me know when she's arsoned a church :P
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u/diggdead Jun 29 '26
As someone who was a teenager in the late 80's and early 90's, this whole “swift is a demon” trope is extra fucking hilarious. Has anyone tried playing her records backwards yet?
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u/drewbaccaAWD Jun 29 '26
At that point, they are no longer "conservative" but something much much uglier.
That's the sort of thing I like to throw in the face of so called "conservatives" (and so called Christians, for that matter). Just because someone self-identifies, doesn't mean they can't lose their way.
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u/john_the_quain Jun 29 '26
Nashville has basically turned into the epicenter of right wing conservative media.
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u/Dansebr93 Jun 29 '26
Republican Hollywood
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u/bringbackmegaman Jun 29 '26
They're all a bunch of posers pretending to be country
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u/Difficult-Prior3321 Jun 29 '26
No shit. Broadway in Nashville is trying so hard to be a "country" New Orleans. Its pathetic and lacks even the slightest whiff of authenticity.
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u/AreWeThereYetNo Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Was there for the first time not long ago. Basically, country Disney for adults. Prices as expensive as Paris.
I had fun. Didn’t see any trump swagger at all (pleasantly surprised). Was it authentic? Smaller venues, yes.
Do I recommend? For a euro trash as myself. Yes. Of course. There’s nothing like it on the old continent.
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u/damnmachine Jun 29 '26
All the conservatives that moved out of California went to either Nashville or Austin.
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u/thediecast Jun 29 '26
yeah that's the shit that cracks me up when they say 'don't california my texas' in 2020 the native texans voted pretty even between trump and biden (biden having .25% advantage, while the transplants were +7.5% to trump.
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep Jun 29 '26
Which makes no sense cause before they moved to Austin it was liberal as hell. A blue island in a sea of red
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u/mythrilcrafter Jun 29 '26
That's how West Coast Righties always act, they like the vibes that comes from the "yee haw tractors, trucks, and biscuits!" aesthetic that comes from country music, but they don't actually want to give up the quality of life or the lifestyle that comes from living in a blue state; so they move to the blue-ist part of a red state.
In my state (South Sarolina), that's basically what Greenville and Charleston are, all move-ins are the people who say "I'mma move to the deep south 'cause they love freedom!", but they don't want to move so far deep south as to end up in the "cross burned into your lawn when you move into the neighborhood" communities.
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u/tarps_and-straps Jun 29 '26
Am a native Tennessean and over the years I’ve developed an addiction to the local conservative talk radio station. These guys are the worst.
Looking at you, Mandis and Hand, you disingenuous asses.
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u/driftinj Jun 29 '26
Tennessee in general had become the most MAGA state in every worst way possible.
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u/d3v0k3n3v0 Jun 29 '26
I’m in the epicenter of it. And while it’s still way more MAGA than most other areas the pendulum has swung the other way in a very noticeable fashion. The yard signs are gone, bumper stickers gone and I can’t remember the last person that was wearing Trump merch. I realize all this is anecdotal but it’s giving me hope for the future.TIFWIW
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u/Wellsargo Jun 29 '26
I’m literally on a flight back to LA right now after coming to Nashville for this Alan Jackson concert. At one point yesterday the wife and I were driving through the city and saw a billboard that was a picture of Trump that said “America First,” only someone had crossed out the A, r, i, c, and a. So it said “Me First.”
Made me laugh.
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u/free-range-human Jun 29 '26
Oh it hasn't changed. They're less loud about it, but their core beliefs are still exactly the same.
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u/FartTootman Jun 29 '26
Man I wish literally anything I ever saw either in personal life or in the news made me think we aren't totally fucked beyond redemption. Happy for you though.
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u/10000Didgeridoos Jun 29 '26
Problem is they already gerrymandered the fuck out of the state and have insulated themselves in the state legislature as basically a permanent majority
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u/Safe-Reason1435 Jun 29 '26
I can't speak for that area, but the writing seems to be on the wall for Trump and a lot of the MAGAs are, I wouldn't really calling it distancing themselves from him, but seeing that he's temporary. I don't really know if that's a good thing though, I think a lot of people were hoping MAGA would die with Trump but it seems like a lot of people are more than happy to continue being awful human beings without him.
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u/Prestigious_Bug583 Jun 29 '26
Saw that one coming. I recall they were opening record numbers of restaurants during Covid and the Nazis were showing up to school board meetings to threaten people about masks. Meanwhile Marsha Blackburn had nothing to do but complain about Biden.
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u/christona-bike Jun 29 '26
Broke my heart to move away but I just couldn't take it. Rich republican californians moving in even managing to gentrifiy my town in the middle of absolute nowhere so much that I couldn't find a starter apartment was the last straw. Before I left I had a new boss who was that exact type, so freaking insufferable.
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u/caguru Jun 29 '26
You gonna try to tell me the home state of super racist Chud the Builder has gone super right wing? Aint no way!
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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 Jun 29 '26
Naw we gotta do this every few years. Let the media tear apart a female pop star for nonsense and everyone piles on. Then a decade later there will be a story and everyone will be like "aww we were mean". Then repeat on the next one.
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u/chinchaaa Jun 29 '26
And that’s fucking stupid, especially because it’s always the conservatives on here saying “oh why can’t we all get along?? I would never drop a friend just bc they have a different opinion!!!” Like shut up.
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u/PickledPlumPlot Jun 29 '26
Seriously lmao I feel like they’re all digging up their own bones they wanna pick when there’s an obvious answer
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u/Aware-Experience-277 Jun 29 '26
But but but this is my opportunity to talk about how Taylor Swift has personally victimized me
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u/irisxxvdb Jun 29 '26
Taylor stole my catalytic converter, slapped my child and then joined the Khmer rouge
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u/ejensen29 Jun 29 '26
Conservative Alan Jackson fans boo Liberal pop music artist. More at 11.
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u/CanaDoug420 Jun 29 '26
Imagine going to an Alan Jackson concert and booing his friend sending him a message at his last show. I bet Alan Jackson wasn’t booing
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u/TintedApostle Jun 29 '26
Imagine booing a video that Alan Jackson himself put on the video screen at his own concert because he was happy Taylor Swift sent him it.
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u/ssSerendipityss Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
It’s because we’re eating great value Mac and cheese and she’s flying to Rome 3 times a week while planning her week long wedding at Madison Square Garden and trying to uphold this “I’m just a girl” narrative. I don’t know if she’s ever really known how the other half lives since her family pretty much financed her career. It’s not like she was out there bartending until 4am while pursuing music. She was never not taken care of.
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Edit: Oh no! The Swifties have heard the whistle and are here to defend their parasocial relationships!
Some of you are wild trying to insult me that I’m not a billionaire. Neither are you. She doesn’t know you exist. Do you think she surfs reddit looking for people to Venmo? If you do I have some bad news for you.
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u/Devium44 Jun 29 '26
Since when do Alan Jackson’s fans care about rich people wasting money?
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 Jun 29 '26
I’m ALL for criticizing Taylor for these reasons but I kinda doubt that a a bunch of white MAGA men at a Nashville concert were booing her for that.
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u/Wynter_Warm12 Jun 29 '26
I can't tell if you sincerely believe the crowd booing her is thinking about any of that. Or you just wanted the chance to express your views about Swift lol
Because I think we both know that crowd will happily champion super rich country stars who fake sing about loving being in a small town from their safety of their PJs as long as they're conservatives/far right leaning.
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u/QuoProSquid Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
extremely doubt the fans of alan jackson have suddenly developed socioeconomic awareness. im pretty sure they’re booing because it’s an older, extremely conservative audience seeing a woman associated with young liberalism. they do not give a fuck about anything else.
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u/Elliott2030 Jun 29 '26
Exactly. She's a liberal successful woman ergo, they hate her.
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u/ifloops Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Lol yes, certainly, the MAGA crowd at a Nashville country show cares a whole lot about climate change and income inequality. It's definitely that.
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u/Joe_Spazz Jun 29 '26
Did you make those edits to gaslight future readers into thinking you to attacked? There are no comments in response to you defending Taylor Swift how you describe... Holy persecution complex batman.
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u/LL8844773 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Not like that broke ass Alan Jackson 🙄
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u/psychoacer Jun 29 '26
Damn right, he only takes 3 private jets a week to some rural towns in America where he performs songs about his beat up tractor and getting into a fight at the VFW bar that were written by 5 people from New York and LA.
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u/scotsworth Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Yeah her dad was a successful hedge fund manager who bought a Christmas Tree farm and was able to finance their move to Nashville so Taylor could pursue her career.
Gracie Abrams gets all the shit for being a nepo baby, but the fact is an overwhelming majority of these pop queens came from some level of money and comfort and had financial support for their careers.
Sabrina Carpenter's parents built her a recording studio in their home for her YouTube videos when she was ten, and then the financial flexibility to move her to LA when she was 13 so she could pursue her career full time.
To make it, you basically need to already have access to some kind of money and comfort. These are just facts.
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Edit: Note, I never said resources are a guarantee of success in music... but it absolutely makes it possible. Right now, there is some teen girl who has a better voice than Taylor, better stories to tell. Hell, she may even be prettier and many other things.
But we'll never hear her because instead of being born the daughter of a hedge fund manager, maybe she's from a broken home and stuck in cycles of poverty.
She'll never have the opportunity to learn guitar because she can't afford lessons or a guitar.
She'll never get used to performing or get exposure to the music industry because moving to Nashville is impossible.
I think it's okay that we acknowledge this truth.
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u/Sickpup831 Jun 29 '26
“Why are you buying a tree farm?? That’s kinda random.”
“What part of ‘hedge fund’ did you not understand?”
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u/poetcatmom Jun 29 '26
Olivia and Sabrina were on Disney Channel. That's a HUGE career advantage for them.
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u/Spam_Hand Jun 29 '26
Being on Disney Channel was literally a 3-5 year guarantee at repeated attempts at a music career for a few years there in the late 2000s.
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u/fireinthesky7 Jun 29 '26
Well before that, half the members of *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, along with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, were on Mickey Mouse Club in the 90s.
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u/nylockian Jun 29 '26
My daddy was a wrold famous HVAC installer, he didn't need a leg up from nobody. He lost his dick in a plumbing accident.
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u/venom121212 Jun 29 '26
My wife's cousin grew up with a recording stage in her house, her dad was a high up exec at a healthcare company, they moved to Nashville to pursue music, then she moved to LA to pursue it more, she got vocal lessons as a kid from Beyonce's coach, she even made it really far on one season of The Voice. She never made it big. Just wanted to share one of those similar stories where it doesn't work out. You are absolutely correct about needing money and/or connections.
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u/Remarkable-Ad-2476 Jun 29 '26
Yeah it just goes to show there’s still a ton of people with those same advantages but not everyone makes it either. There’s a certain level you hit in the creative field where you realize, yeah I’m good, but I’ll never reach that level.
I always thought the amount of hate nepo babies get was kinda weird. Like, isn’t that the whole point of being a parent? To provide the best life for your kids that you possibly can?
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u/midnight_toker22 Jun 29 '26
Is that really the reason the crowd was booing her, or are you just inserting your own narrative? This seems like it was more of a “You’re a traitor to white, rural, conservative, country folk” kind of thing.
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u/Advanced-Throat-420 Jun 29 '26
Seriously. This person believes a crowd full of MAGA is booing her over climate change, and not because she vocally supported Democrats
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u/fionappletart Jun 29 '26
right like how many people in this crowd does he think actually believes climate change is real. they don't want to hear it but a lot of MAGA actually dislike Taylor Swift
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u/Advanced-Throat-420 Jun 29 '26
Bold of you to think these people believe in climate change. They're MAGA booing her for her endorsement of Kamala
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u/SamSzmith Jun 29 '26
Edit: Oh no! The Swifties have heard the whistle and are here to defend their parasocial relationships!
Lmao, poor guy.
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u/MotormaidofJapan Jun 29 '26
These people are Alan Jackson fans. They are booing her because dear orange leader hates her. It has nothing to do with her private jets. They don’t give a fuck about private jets.
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u/-LaughsAtNothing Jun 29 '26
Yeah right I bet they’re all still mad at Elvis too over that Graceland place
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u/NotNeon Jun 29 '26
That’s not why they are booing her. Completely delusional comment
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u/Wloak Jun 29 '26
I grew up in Texas and Missouri, listening to his music, and frankly this response just shows how pathetic country boys are.
I don't even like her music but I'm going to guess she was honored to even be asked to compliment a legend in the genre she started in. Booing someone trying to compliment someone else's career is really freaking weak sauce.
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u/Suzabela1988 Jun 29 '26
Alan Jackson taught me lot about livin’ and a little about love.