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Country singer's PR firm drops him after wife's comments on trans

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by rivergator, Sep 10, 2022.

  1. altalias

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    If this is a serious question, yes he does incorporate rap in at least one of his number one hits, Dirt Road Anthem
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    It is the best-selling song in digital history by a male country solo artist in the United States with over four million sold." (Wikipedia) Maybe four million country music fans bought it so they could ascertain for themselves if it was really country.

     
  2. cocodrilo

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    I'm sure those "four million country fans" are the same ones who enjoyed songs like Buck Owens's "I've Got the Hungries for Your Love and I'm Waitin' in Your Welfare Line," or Freddie Hart's "If Fingerprints Showed Up on Skin (Wonder Whose I'd Find on You)."
     
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  3. ETGator1

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    Jason Aldean doesn't need anyone. He is a bonafide country music superstar.

    Those stars and their agencies who created this hub bub will be worse off for it in country music. Marin Morris can go mainstream music as she is ultra-talented and she can cross over to pop music, but the others who go woke will go broke or worse.

    You could ask the CEO at Bed Bath & Beyond if he hadn't taken a flyer off a high rise in New York last week.
     
  4. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    Is this really an example of anyone being cancelled? Aldean has a bunch of arena shows this fall. They'll all go on as scheduled. Attendance might actually increase.
    He's a very successful musician, so it's not like there aren't a bunch of other PR firms lined up trying to get his business.
     
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  5. VAg8r1

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    Not sure how the late CEO of Bed, & Beyond is relevant although for what it's worth he most likely committed suicide because he was about to face criminal charges.
    Bed Bath & Beyond CFO who leapt to his death from New York skyscraper faced 'pump and dump' allegation just days earlier
     
  6. PITBOSS

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    True. But I anticipate a lot of clients could be cut if they’re so critical of postings by family members. But, everyone with mass fame has to maintain a certain public image.
    I wonder if there is more to this story.
     
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  7. altalias

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    No it's classic virtual signaling. It's how the modern prigs know who is on whose team.
     
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  8. ETGator1

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    Business ain't so good either. Bed Bath & Beyond is closing many stores and laying off workers. My Pillow was banned by Bed Bath & Beyond. Go woke, go broke.

    Progressives started this persecution game with Chick Fil A and Hobby Lobby, but conservatives take their mark down once they are offended. It didn't take long either. Last I looked, Chick Fil A, Hobby Lobby, and My Pillow are doing just fine.

    Dick's Sporting Goods is the franchise I'm surprised to see doing so well. Their stance on guns queered themselves with those on the right who believe in 2A.
     
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  9. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    So let me get this straight:
    PR firm doesn't agree with a stance that Aldean and his wife have taken. So while they decide to move on without him, they praise him quite a bit. And that is bad! It's virtue signalling, its cancel culture! It's 'modern prigs!' It's divisive!

    Meanwhile, conservatives turn against Dick's because of its stance on guns. And that is .... good?
     
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  10. docspor

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    this just demonstrates that Nashville is 10 lbs of shit in a 5 pound bag
     
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  11. cocodrilo

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    I need a PR firm for my new mouthwash company called Bad Breath and Beyond.
     
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  12. cocodrilo

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    That sounds like a good one. Who recorded it?
     
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  13. docspor

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    dunno. but, Justin Townes Earle said it last time I saw him...RIP.
     
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  14. VAg8r1

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    You do realize that Bed, Bath & Beyond announced that it was no longer selling Lindell's products very recently and that Walmart also announced that it would stop selling My Pillow? Attributing its CEO's suicide to that decision borders on the truly absurd. BB&B's financial problems date back years and Gustavo Arnal its late CEO most likely committed suicide because he was going to be investigated for irregularities regarding stock trades. Even assuming that he was going to be forced out, in our day and age even CEOs fired for incompetence receive golden parachutes worth millions of dollars. The company's decision to stop carrying My Pillow had absolutely nothing to do with its multi-year decline in revenue or in its CEO's suicide.
     
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  15. gator_lawyer

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    Always amusing to see the "cancel" whining actually comes down to being upset that private persons and businesses don't want to interact with people saying bigoted things.
     
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    doubling vs. 44 fold is not exactly an apt comparison. I am sure some of it is feeling more comfort so in who they are, but even psychologists seem to agree it goes well beyond that.
     
  17. gator_lawyer

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    1. My chart shows it going from around 3% to 12%.
    2. Your 4400% number is from a NY Post article, is unsupported with a cite to a reputable study, and is referencing the UK. The NY Post article was written by an anti-transgender author. Seems like it's worth investigating the truth behind that number, right?

    Turns out that 4400% number is hugely misleading:

    J.K. Rowling said there's been an 'explosion' of young women transitioning and de-transitioning. There's no evidence that's true.
    (This article also notes the valid criticisms of the social contagion study you posted.)
     
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  18. sas1988

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    It happens on all sides of the spectrum these days, not just liberals in case you haven't noticed. There is a huge divide between old school conservatives and the MAGA types. They argue but I have to give it to the liberals in that they will argue with each other about degrees of anything they believe. I HATE the outer edges of both sides but they tend to be the ones that scream loudest or just tend to be picked by the opposition to paint all on a side as that radical. I'm rooting for this new party to take hold and expand and really be an option in the future. This country NEEDS A MIDDLE, moderate party.
     
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  19. ETGator1

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    Cancel the extreme democratic socialist party or bring them back to center left and the world would be far better. Cancel = vote them out of office.
     
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  20. tampagtr

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    "Cancel culture" has now become politely refusing to engage

    Wait a second. It's one thing to heckle a speaker so ruthlessly that he or she is literally unable to deliver a scheduled address. Plenty of liberals oppose that kind of thing.

    But are we no longer allowed to protest a speaker even by quietly walking out? That seems like something we all have a perfect right to do. And needless to say, it has no effect at all on academic freedom: Kristin Collier is a well-known pro-life Christian and I have no doubt she'll remain one.



    Is walking out on a speaker no longer allowed? - Kevin Drum

    Also that student protest is the equivalent of a totalitarian violent government that kills or imprisons: