The Top-Selling Musical Artist in America Is Exponentially More Full of It Than Milli Vanilli
Oliver Anthony became a hero to MAGA Republicans seemingly overnight. But if you pull back the adulation—and profit—he’s been receiving of late as a far-right populist hero, you’re in for a shock.
Introduction
This isn’t—not fundamentally—a political essay. But it might (briefly) seem like it is.
The fact is, in musical terms alone, Oliver Anthony sings well and plays guitar well.
His music, if you ignore the lyrics in their entirety, is pleasant enough to listen to, and if anything in the history of folk music, country music, country-folk music, in…