{"id":1619899,"date":"2022-08-23T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619899"},"modified":"2022-08-23T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:32:26","slug":"does-hollywoods-conservative-blacklist-extend-to-the-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-hollywoods-conservative-blacklist-extend-to-the-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Hollywood\u2019s Conservative Blacklist Extend to the Music Industry?"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdoes-hollywoods-conservative-blacklist-extend-to-the-music-industry%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=1619899&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><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/buddy-brown-woke-coke-less-white\/\">Buddy Brown<\/a> got a rude awakening when he hit Nashville to start his music career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country singer says he found label executives open to working with him, but they insisted he leave his right-leaning politics outside the recording studio.<\/p>\n<p>Brown balked. He went rogue, forging a solo career sans studio interference.<\/p>\n<p>Was that experience an outlier? Or, does the music industry follow the not-so-soft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/being-the-ricardos-blacklist-conservatives\/\">blacklist against conservative stars<\/a> we see across Hollywood?<\/p>\n<p>A new Billboard.com report suggests just that.<\/p>\n<p>The industry site reports several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/conservative-music-market-radio-airplay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right-leaning songs can\u2019t be found on radio stations<\/a> nationwide despite runaway sales. Nor are established labels rushing to sign independent acts with right-leaning crowds.<\/p>\n<p>And those crowds can be sizable.<\/p>\n<p>John Rich\u2019s \u201cProgress\u201d is just one example. The Big and Rich alum promoted the song, which torches liberal pieties, on both Truth Social and Rumble. The platforms embrace free speech without punishing conservative thought, the opposite of most social media giants.<\/p>\n<p>The song rocketed up the charts with no mainstream support, and Billboard notes that success didn\u2019t translate into radio airplay. The singer has no regrets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have to bend the knee to beat the machine,\u201d Rich told Billboard.<\/p>\n<p>Other conservative smashes include Aaron Lewis\u2019 \u201cAm I the Only One,\u201d Loza Alexander\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d and Tom MacDonald\u2019s \u201cFake Woke.\u201d All three crushed the competition in digital sales, but fans couldn\u2019t hear them on their favorite radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no accident.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard notes that radio stations routinely ignore right-leaning songs, no matter how successful they may be.<\/p>\n<p>The story suggests those tracks are too divisive. Perhaps, although radio had a field day with Green Day\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idiot\u201d both in 2004, and now, without industry handwringing.<\/p>\n<p>That song directly targeted President George W. Bush and his War on Terror campaign.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald told Billboard music stations may unofficially boycott an artist who doesn\u2019t abide by the current groupthink. That effectively captures MacDonald, who isn\u2019t conservative in any traditional sense but promotes inclusion and freedom of thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a radio station says, \u2018This is great, let\u2019s put this into rotation,\u2019 and then they\u2019re like, \u2018\u2019Let me do five seconds of research on this artist,\u2019 they\u2019re going to go, \u2018Actually, whoa, f\u2014 that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A more disturbing Billboard.com anecdote comes from Jordan Kurland, manager of Death Cab for Cutie and a progressive activist. Kurland suggests Interscope Records would face blowback from progressive artists if it embraced a right-leaning voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not going to take that risk,\u201d Kurland told Billboard.com.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>That thinking aligns with modern Hollywood, an industry that loathes alternative points of view. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/donald-trump-debra-messing-eric-mccormack-will-and-grace-2019-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWill &#038; Grace\u201d alum Debra Messing<\/a> and Eric McCormack briefly vowed to blacklist stars who supported President Donald Trump before publicly backpedaling from that position.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative actors like Antonio Sabato, Jr. say their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/antonio-sabato-jr-gods-not-dead-we-the-people\/\"> ideology all but wiped out their professional careers.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Post-Blacklist, Antonio Sabato Jr. Plots Alternative To Left-Wing Hollywood <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7djC6u4SJz\">https:\/\/t.co\/7djC6u4SJz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vezU46sKDZ\">pic.twitter.com\/vezU46sKDZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1296098491433803777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other stars keep their right-leaning views private for fear of professional retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>In this toxic atmosphere, conservative players like Tim Allen and Jon Voight are notable exceptions, and even they appear to suffer as a result. Allen\u2019s \u201cLast Man Standing\u201d hit sitcom on ABC got the ax under mysterious conditions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/lightyear-same-sex-kiss-tim-allen-box-office\/\">star also got overlooked<\/a> for \u201cLightyear,\u201d the spinoff Pixar film based on his Buzz Lightyear character.<\/p>\n<p>Voight\u2019s superlative run on \u201cRay Donovan\u201d couldn\u2019t net the superstar a single Emmy win.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Michael Loftus said he tried to pitch a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/conservative-late-night-shows-loftus\/\">centrist late night talk show<\/a> but TV executives told him they couldn\u2019t be seen being cordial to the Right. And it took Fox News to create a late night show that didn\u2019t echo the same liberal talking points shared by Stephen Colbert and his ilk.<\/p>\n<p>The result?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGutfeld!\u201d is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/gutfeld-carolla-share-shocking-late-night-blacklisting-tales\/\"> new king of late night<\/a>, and Hollywood, Inc. doesn\u2019t care that it left all that money on the table for Fox News to scoop up.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a stretch to think the music industry follows that unofficial blacklist?<\/p>\n<p>In the past, radio stations often shied away from progressive protest songs \u2026. or the artists themselves. The Dixie Chicks faced radio\u2019s wrath after lead singer Natalie Maines singled out President George W. Bush in the runup to the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t for any particular song, though. The group\u2019s collective position coaxed stations to boycott the band\u2019s music.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks struggled to get his 1992 song \u201cWe Shall Be Free,\u201d which spoke to racism and marriage equality, sizable airplay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/big-tech-censorship-conservative-comedy\/\"><strong>RELATED: BIG TECH IS CRUSHING CONSERVATIVE COMEDY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was decades before the entertainment culture became less free speech friendly and more antagonist to right-leaning views.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard admits as such, repeatedly, in its story.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, this kind of independent success would draw the attention of traditional labels and radio stations \u2013 but they tend to steer clear of conservative music. \u201cThe political songs just don\u2019t work for us,\u201d says Julie Stevens, program director for San Jose, Calif., country station 95.3 KRTY. \u201cEven the ones that say \u2018We all need to love each other and get along.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald told Billboard he asks fans to call their local radio stations to get his music some airplay without luck. Some of the stories\u2019 sources say any divisive song, Left or Right, will face similar thumbs down.<\/p>\n<p>Country music, which should be amenable to its right-leaning base, doesn\u2019t always reflect its audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The industry canceled superstar Morgan Wallen after he was caught uttering the n-word during a private conversation. The slur wasn\u2019t aimed at any black person, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/morgan-wallen-cancel-culture-cma-awards\/\">industry pummeled Wallen<\/a> \u2013 even though his fan base never left his side.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the newly christened Chicks need not worry that their progressive activism will dent radio airplay.<\/p>\n<p>Other elements of the music world reflect a deeply progressive worldview.<\/p>\n<p>Modern music awards shows double as DNC platforms, embracing Black Lives Matter and spewing liberal talking points from the stage. These shows rarely, if ever, embrace right-leaning views.<\/p>\n<p>Given all of the above, it\u2019s fair to say\u00a0Music, Inc. keeps conservative artists at arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddy Brown got a rude awakening when he hit Nashville to start his music career. 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