{"id":1185551,"date":"2022-01-04T01:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185551"},"modified":"2022-01-04T01:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T06:34:50","slug":"country-star-morgan-wallen-thanks-supporters-who-helped-him-beat-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/country-star-morgan-wallen-thanks-supporters-who-helped-him-beat-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Star Morgan Wallen Thanks Supporters Who Helped Him Beat Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcountry-star-morgan-wallen-thanks-supporters-who-helped-him-beat-cancel-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/morganwallenig1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Country star Morgan Wallen thanked his supporters for backing him after a tumultuous 2021 saw him de-platformed and nearly run out of country music after audio of him saying ni**a was leaked.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/02\/09\/morgan-wallen-album-sales-surge-after-n-word-controversy\/\">reported<\/a>,&nbsp;Wallen was dropped from various platforms in February after the recording was released of the singer during a drunken night out with friends.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After Cumulus Media pulled the Wallen\u2019s music, the company demanded its 400-plus stations follow suit and cut him from their playlists.<\/p>\n<p>Wallen apologized and apologized again. He was also disqualified from playing at the Country Music Awards before being despatched on a \u201cre-education\u201d tour to correct his thinking as his critics hoped he would simply disappear.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Morgan Wallen used an unapproved word 5 months ago, lost everything, and has launched a humiliating re-education tour. Hunter Biden did the exact same thing, paid no penalty, and his unearned and breathtakingly corrupt artistic career is now flourishing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uR6bXnbmIq\">https:\/\/t.co\/uR6bXnbmIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1418705086931476480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having been nearly completely&nbsp;wiped from the country music scene, Wallen went on to have the best-selling album of 2021,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.showbiz411.com\/2021\/12\/27\/album-sales-2021-morgan-wallen-was-number-1-adele-down-82-from-2015-fleetwood-mac-41-year-old-smash-hit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">outperforming<\/a>&nbsp;the likes of Adele, Olivia Rodrigo, and Drake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could write a book on 2021,\u201d Wallen wrote in an Instagram post published Saturday. \u201cAnd I probably will one day. But for now, I wanna say thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who believed in me and continued to believe in me, even when it wasn\u2019t the popular thing to do,\u201d the country star continued. \u201cThank you to my family, my band, my friends, and my fans for having my back and sticking up for me when so many were coming for me. I hope my heart has shown through the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go into 2022 feeling inspired and free,\u201d the 28-year-old wrote. \u201cInspired to create from the heart and free to share those creations with you guys. Im so proud of how far we\u2019ve come together. I still feel like this is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallen closed the post, \u201cGod bless y\u2019all let\u2019s crush this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYNb_RtL0kT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how much scandal still sticks to Wallen. A <a href=\"http:\/\/Lil%20Durk%20-%20Broadway%20Girls%20feat.%20Morgan%20Wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music video<\/a> of him starring alongside Chicago rapper Lil Durk has garnered over seven million YouTube views in two weeks. The song, \u201cBroadway Girls,\u201d scored&nbsp;a No. 1 spot on Billboard\u2019s Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Now&nbsp;Wallen wants to collaborate with rap megastar&nbsp;Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p>In November he announced a set of dates for a nearly eight-month headlining tour taking him to arenas in 46 cities around the country. Shows are already selling out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/music\/news\/morgan-wallen-tour-2022-arenas-return-1235112362\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;the tour starts Feb. 3 in Evansville, Indiana, and wraps up Sept. 24 at L.A.\u2019s Staples Center. Stops in-between include gigs at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden Feb. 9 and Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena on March 17.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country star Morgan Wallen thanked his supporters for backing him after a tumultuous 2021 saw him de-platformed and nearly run out of country music after audio of him saying ni**a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}