re: GA/FL Line Pt. 5: Bro Country vs DBT / Who's the one 'pandering' here?. . .

They "suck" because they offend insecure southern white males.

Everyone has specific tastes of musical preferences. So you don't like dbt. Oh well. Not a big deal. My wife doesn't like them either, but not because she is offended by words "Jefferson" style.

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You are the snob that shits on other people's tastes.

That's a damn lie.

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I like living in Atlanta. What say you, Jeff?

I don't understand how the backlash to this latest dbt record would be complicated to understand.

Most people turn on a rock n roll song just looking for an escape and a good beat right?. They don’t turn one on looking to get lectured to. Or to be force-fed social issues that’ve been boiled down into cringe-worthy little platitudes. I mean, I know a lot of really popular famous songs have political messages etc, but it's usually subtle enough or good enough to somehow not derail the whole effort.

For you music "afficiandos" that are too "refined" in your musical taste to aknowlege bro country and that criticize it for "pandering".... you need to understand that this dbt band does the exact same thing. The entire record is basically a rinse and repeat formula of self-aggrandizing moral indignation and virtue signaling. But instead of the beer and trucks and tanned blondes that the bros use.... they plug in social justice warrior topics and cliches ripped straight from HuffPo headlines instead.

Conclusion: dbt is basically just "critically acclaimed" bro country. But without one one thousandnth of the popularity or song/record sales. Bro country wins. Love live The Line!!

DBT = Drive By Truckers

Now this all makes sense.

I was never a big fan. But I have nothing against them.

The people I know that love them are the "Southern when it's convenient for me" types.

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Only reason a person would be offended today would be if they were guilty of being the specific type of southerner they are trashing. You fit in that category.

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That’s exactly the stupidity they’re pandering to, right there……

Let’s dissect this process:

-paint a broad brush image of meanie-weanie backwards boogie-men hiding everywhere, check
-demonize and blame them for everything. check
-while ignoring the ones committing actual crimes shown nightly on your local news channel. check
-then, have audacity afterwards to virtue-signal to world your condemnation of the invisible yeti’s and bigfoots you blame instead
-and flex and pose as righteous for NPR
-then when check arrives, toast earnings with glasses of meta-mucil

Tarzan, YOu are part of a modern day simpleton cult. And I am trying to help you. NOt because I care about you. But because I care about the future of humanity.

That's some deep shite right there..

Getting better..


We could probably come up with some good lyrics for a GaFlL song.

I think Bent Bill Hat is a good title

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They called the shite heads out from history

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I'm not sure I really agree with that. I think Southern Rock Opera was more about how history's perceived Southern shitheads (George Wallace and Ronnie Van Zandt) were actually better people than the national public thought.

Jefferson was right in that DBT has a different sound than just about anyone out there and I dig it. I do think the newest album does sound great but they made it too political for sure.

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers Band were great southern rock bands that were certainly liberal in their political views, but the difference is they didnt focus on that in their lyrics... they just wrote about life in the south.