{"id":2012310,"date":"2023-08-25T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-responds-to-songs-use-at-gop-debate-i-wrote-that-song-about-those-people\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T16:47:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:47:24","slug":"rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-responds-to-songs-use-at-gop-debate-i-wrote-that-song-about-those-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-responds-to-songs-use-at-gop-debate-i-wrote-that-song-about-those-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer behind &#8216;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8217; song speaks out: &#8216;I wrote it for them&#8217;"},"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\">30<\/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%2Frich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-responds-to-songs-use-at-gop-debate-i-wrote-that-song-about-those-people%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=2012310&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>Oliver\u2062 Anthony Responds to Song&#8217;s\u2063 Use at GOP Debate: &#8216;I Wrote That Song About Those People&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>It appears that Oliver \u2063Anthony, the\u200b man behind the viral \u200dhit &#8220;Rich Men\u2064 North of Richmond,&#8221; is not\u200c without\u200d a \u200bsense\u200d of irony.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u200cvideo \u200dhe posted to YouTube on Friday, he \u200claughed at the \u2063fact that the participants in Wednesday night\u2019s Republican primary debate in \u200dMilwaukee were forced to listen to \u2062his hit when they, knowingly or not, were the subjects of it.<\/p>\n<p>It had been \u2063about 10 days since Anthony\u2063 last posted a video directly addressing the events in his life and the responses to his \u200bmusic,\u200b but he said he\u2062 had a \u2062couple \u2064of things\u2062 he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-hammers-biden-on-pandemic-policies-that-is-an-anti-science-posture\/\" title=\"Ron DeSantis Hammers Biden On Pandemic Policies: \u2018That Is An Anti-Science Posture\u2019\">wanted people<\/a> to know.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf there is \u2063anything for me\u2063 to address at all with you it\u2019s that \u2014 it\u2019s the one thing that \u2064has bothered \u200bme is \u2062seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-responds-to-songs-use-at-gop-debate-i-wrote-that-song-about-those-people\/\" title=\"Singer behind 'Rich Men North of Richmond' song speaks out: 'I wrote it for them'\">people rap politics<\/a> \u2063up\u2064 into this,\u201d he said about two minutes into the video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disappointed \u200bto see \u2014 like, it\u2019s aggravating seeing people\u2062 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/download-app\/\" title=\"Download The App -Conservative News Daily\">conservative news<\/a> try to identify with me like I\u2019m one of them,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s\u2062 aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act\u200b like we\u2019re buddies and act like we\u2019re fighting the same struggle here,\u2064 like that we\u2019re trying \u200dto present the same message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony said that he\u2019d \u2063tried to \u2064be polite \u200bto the many, many people\u200d who \u2062had reached out to him in the wake of\u200b his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oliver-anthony-john-rich-hold-1-spots-itunes-charts-beating-taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sudden\u200c popularity<\/a>, but \u2063felt \u2062that many of \u2063those people simply wanted to insert themselves into the attention \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rich-men-north-richmond-zooms-1-itunes-anthony-posts-video-reacting-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rich Men North of Richmond<\/a>\u201d was generating only to\u200d make \u201ctheir own selves relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s aggravating \u200bas hell,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Anthony\u2019s aggravation turned to \u200bamusement when he thought about Wednesday \u2062night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/post-gop-debate-poll-shows-biggest-winners-losers-bloodbath-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican <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><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u2062 you\u200b know, like, it was funny \u2062seeing \u2063my song in \u200dthe \u2062\u2014 it was fun \u2064it was\u2064 funny seeing it\u2064 at the presidential debate,\u201d\u2062 he said, \u201cbecause it\u2019s like I wrote\u200c that \u2062song about those people, you know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for them \u2064to \u2063have to \u2064sit there and listen to \u2062that,\u200b that\u2064 cracks me\u2062 up,\u201d he \u2063said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthony then struck a tone that sounded more \u200bpopulist than conservative, implying that\u2063 his\u2064 song \u2062was less anti-Democrat or anti-left \u2062than it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/supposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-oliver-anthony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-establishment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat song has\u200d nothing \u200dto\u2063 do with [President] Joe Biden,\u2062 you know,\u201d \u2064he said.\u200d \u201cIt\u2019s a lot bigger than Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat song is written about the \u200bpeople\u2062 on\u2063 the, on that stage \u2014 and \u200da lot more too, not just them but definitely them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the\u2062 entire video here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>For any readers who do not\u200b choose to watch the video\u2064 in its entirety, it\u2019s probably important to point \u2064out that Anthony\u200b did not reserve all\u200d of his criticism for \u200dthose on the right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do hate\u200b to\u2063 see that \u200csong being weaponized like I see, I see the right trying to characterize\u2063 me as one of their\u2063 own and\u2063 I \u200csee the left trying to discredit me, I guess in retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony\u200b didn\u2019t hold back when it came to\u2064 his reaction about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat \u200ds***\u2019s\u2064 gotta stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you \u200dwatch the response videos on \u200dYouTube to this \u200bsong, it\u2019s not \u200dconservative\u2063 people responding\u200d to the\u2062 song; it\u2019s not even necessarily Americans responding to the\u200b song,\u201d he explained. \u201cI don\u2019t know that \u200dI\u2019ve\u2064 seen\u200c anything get such\u2063 a positive response from\u2062 such a \u200bdiverse group of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u200d think \u200dthat terrifies the people that \u2063I sing about in that song,\u201d he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rich-men-north-richmond-singer-responds-songs-use-gop-debate-wrote-song-people\/\">&#8216;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8217;\u2062 Singer Responds \u200dto \u2063Song&#8217;s Use at GOP Debate: &#8216;I Wrote That \u200cSong \u2063About Those People&#8217;<\/a> appeared first \u200con <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Anthony, known for his viral video &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond,&#8221; ironically mocks the participants of the Republican primary debate in a recent YouTube video. 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