{"id":2012071,"date":"2023-08-25T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oliver-anthony-says-hearing-his-song-during-presidential-debate-cracks-me-up\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:53:36","slug":"oliver-anthony-says-hearing-his-song-during-presidential-debate-cracks-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oliver-anthony-says-hearing-his-song-during-presidential-debate-cracks-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Anthony finds it amusing to hear his song during the presidential debate."},"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\">26<\/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%2Foliver-anthony-says-hearing-his-song-during-presidential-debate-cracks-me-up%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=2012071&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--><h2>Musician Oliver Anthony Reacts to \u200dHis Song Being\u200d Featured in Republican Presidential Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Musician Oliver Anthony recently\u2063 shared his excitement and amusement after his song, &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond,&#8221; was played during the Republican\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">presidential debate<\/a>. The debate, hosted by\u200b the Republican\u2064 National Committee and Fox News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kicked off \u200bwith Anthony&#8217;s catchy chorus.<\/p>\n<h3>Unexpected\u200b Fame and Speculation<\/h3>\n<p>The song&#8217;s inclusion \u2062sparked speculation\u2062 among the candidates\u2062 about\u2064 its popularity among the public. In a YouTube video, Anthony expressed his amusement, saying, &#8220;It was funny seeing it at the presidential debate because it&#8217;s \u200clike I wrote that song about those people, you know, so\u2064 for them to have \u200bto sit there and listen to that, that cracks me \u200bup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony found it amusing\u200d to witness the response \u200bto his song, clarifying that it\u2062 was not specifically\u200d about Joe\u2062 Biden but \u2063rather about the people on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-should-have-stepped-up-president-trump-goes-off-on-bill-barr-over-his-silence-on-hunter-biden-video\/\" title=\"\u201cBill Barr Should Have Stepped Up!\u201d \u2013 President Trump Goes Off on Bill Barr over His Silence on Hunter Biden (VIDEO)\">debate stage<\/a> and more. On the day of\u200b the debate, the song reportedly\u2062 generated a staggering $40,000\u200d in\u2064 revenue daily, with three of Anthony&#8217;s \u2062songs occupying \u200bthe top\u2062 three spots on iTunes.<\/p>\n<h3>Keeping Politics Separate<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the song&#8217;s political exposure, Anthony emphasized that his music is not intended to be political. He expressed disappointment at attempts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snopes-posts-bogus-pro-aoc-fact-check-ends-up-exposing-its-left-wing-bias\/\" title=\"Snopes Posts Bogus Pro-AOC \u2018Fact Check,\u2019 Ends Up Exposing Its Left-Wing Bias\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/download-app\/\" title=\"Download The App -Conservative News Daily\">conservative news<\/a> outlets<\/a> \u200cto associate him with \u2064their ideologies, stating, &#8220;It&#8217;s aggravating seeing people on conservative news try to identify with me like \u200bI&#8217;m one of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony also addressed criticism from the Left, who claimed that his \u2064song\u200c attacked the poor.\u200b To \u2063counter this, he pointed to another one of his songs, &#8220;Doggon It,&#8221; which defends the poor and highlights his intention to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oliver-anthony-says-hearing-his-song-during-presidential-debate-cracks-me-up\/\" title=\"Oliver Anthony finds it amusing to hear his song during the presidential debate.\">address class-related issues<\/a> without taking a\u200c political stance.<\/p>\n<h3>Rising Popularity and Social\u2064 Media Following<\/h3>\n<p>Since \u2062the release\u2064 of his\u200c latest song, Anthony&#8217;s\u200d popularity has\u2063 soared. He now\u2063 boasts over 4.5 \u200dmillion monthly listeners on Spotify, a significant increase from the 40,000 he had before. Additionally, his Instagram account has seen \u2063a remarkable surge in followers, surpassing 1 million compared to his previous count of fewer than 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Oliver Anthony&#8217;s journey,\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Oliver Anthony expressed his response to his song being played during the Republican presidential debate. The debate, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by the Republican National Committee and Fox News, commenced with Anthony&#8217;s &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8221; chorus. The initial question asked candidates to speculate on the song&#8217;s unexpected popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012071","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}