Merle Haggard is the shit

ya'll youngins got it wrong. There was nothing wrong about the Vietnam war cause the Great Depression existed. Ain't no reason to protest what was one of the worst foreign diplomacy mistakes we ever made. It even spawned probably the best protest song ever: Fortunate Son, but that youngin' is totally wrong to be speakin like that. BTW, Muskogee is totally from California, not Oklahoma.

And why ya'll youngin's got all ya'll hair? The fuck you think you are with your full heads of hair? I, on the other hand am pure and rightous just ask Hayley Williams. Ain't nothing more blue collar than ignoring current events and songs about the "good old days" when people had to go without food, several generations of families were cramped into small houses to avoid living on the streets, and everyone was worried about losing their houses to banks. Those pure and righteous auctions too for farms where communities got together to protect one another and not let banks profit off the situation.

That shit is fucking pure and righteous. God, there is nothing better than the modern equivalent of music about white people just slamming some white beer, complaining about their divorces, their dogs dying, and bragging about their ridiculously raised trucks that'd just roll if they took it muddin'. What do insurance agents know about cars or trucks? Just look at that 4'11" woman who couldn't see behind the wheel of her raised truck and drove over the lambo. That lambo should've been more careful. She needed that raised shit as a status symbol. She probably worked damn hard for that shit.

Such fucking pure and righteous music.

You know who wasn't pure and righteous though? Beethoven. Who the fuck was he not willing to work for a single rich family as a musician, as was the trend back then? Who was he constantly trying to change music instead of making it palatable for the masses like old school nashville? Who needs women like Kelly Clarkson who can actually sing when you could have Johnny Cash?

Cash was a fun songwriter and all, but come the fuck on.

And if you think you know more about Beethoven than me feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but if you know your shit you know I'm not. His letters commonly expressed how little he cared what others thought. At times he wrote shit just to sell it like Swift. Other times he wrote shit like Eroica and then changed directory when current events changed. That's fucking music. Not ignoring current events like Haggard. The fuck? How the fuck you gonna be out here constantly ranting about Morgan Wallen for shit he did like 40 years ago before anyone was born, but then act like Haggard is the gold standard?

The only good song I know of from Haggard is Poncho and Lefty, which isn't even his, he only did because Willie Nelson asked him to, and Emmylou Harris has the better version anyway. Shit, it's not even her song either, and her cover is why Willie Nelson wanted to cover it. As far as I can tell "Old Nashville" that Hayley loves to defend as being pure and righteous relied a lot on ghost writers. Again, not to throw shade her way by Emmylou is a great example of it. You can hear a cool song from her and the writing credits are almost always someone else it feels like.

Don't remember if I capitalize the 'l". Too lazy to check.

Someone went on a long ass rant about Hayley and they were damn right.

I've been laughing so god damn hard lately after hearing all the antics she's been up to. Even saw a youtube video with the title card of: "They said shut up and sing, no thanks." I fucking died. How TF you so full of yourself that you refuse to sing when people are paying you to sing? You don't know shit about music history or theory apparently because I didn't even major in this shit and I know this shit.

Fucking brand is supposed to be all about black people, who weren't popular in "Old Nashville". You got Charley Pride, but that's like it. Their presence were mostly in other genres and if it was in country it's only cause of how much it borrows from Blues, esp Old Nashville country. Grab a Tele, add a little twang, and play blues you've got country. Literally. Almost same 3rd chord progression as a 12-bar blues.

And i'm not gonna touch the other bullshit. I had to block her on Insta and forgot all about it because she was for some reason all over my feed. Probably saw a single performance where she looked cool or something and got dragged into her Conflict as a Service business model on Social Media. Shit gets fucking old. That woman will find any reason at all to bitch and has no reason at all to bitch. She's got a stable fanbase of white homeowners with 401ks (the black people thing is massively overplayed). Those white people are literally 60% of her fanbase.

But fuck man. I can't fucking stand it when people try to get elitist about music and talk about "the old ways." Music has always been evolving and that's why it's great. Sit down, shut the fuck up, and stop trying to pretend there's one way to play a song or music in general. On behalf of the greats like Beethoven, fuck you.

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anonymous Other April 28, 2026 at 2:12 pm 0 0