{"id":2018275,"date":"2023-08-31T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oliver-anthony-addresses-people-trying-to-politically-label-him\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:33:58","slug":"oliver-anthony-addresses-people-trying-to-politically-label-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oliver-anthony-addresses-people-trying-to-politically-label-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Anthony rejects political labels."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/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-addresses-people-trying-to-politically-label-him%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=2018275&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 Anthony: Breaking Stereotypes and Embracing Individuality<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oliver Anthony, the singer\u2062 who became an overnight sensation with his song \u201cRich Men North of Richmond,\u201d said during an interview this week that people are effectively\u200d trying\u200b to paint him as \u2063belonging to one side\u200d of the political aisle or the other \u200bto fit their \u2062preferred \u2062worldview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthony, whose real name \u200bis Christopher Anthony Lunsford, made the \u200cremarks during an \u200cinterview on \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe want everybody to kind\u2062 of think along \u2062the ways that we think,\u201d \u2063Rogan said.\u2064 \u201cIt\u2019s very strange. And when\u2062 a person like yourself gets labeled a \u200dright-wing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-michael-savage-turns-80-radio-legend-reflects-on-career-family-and-achieving-the-american-dream\/\" title=\"Exclusive\u2014Michael Savage Turns 80: Radio Legend Reflects on Career, Family, and Achieving the American Dream\">left-wing fanatic<\/a>, like right out of the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthony noted that people \u2064had tried to label him both left-wing and right-wing over the span of a week after his \u2063song went viral.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re looking for your Biden campaign contributions now\u2064 they\u2019re going through your f***ing taxes,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cThe whole thing is so bonkers, man. Like, can\u2019t they\u200d just accept that you made a great song and people enjoy it? Why \u2064do\u200c people have to attack?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthony \u2063said people wanted to \u201cbuild this image of whatever it is that the person behind the song represents, for better or for worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it was funny\u2063 to watch everything being said\u2063 about him because he knew what\u2063 was \u2063true and \u2063what was not.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u200cso like just even \u200dwhat I\u2019ve skimmed \u200cthrough of people sending me, like singing at\u2063 the Super Bowl, like how many people have formed an \u2062opinion about whether or not I should \u2063be paid to sing in the Super Bowl,\u201d he said. \u201cLike I\u2019m\u200d not\u200b singing \u200dat the Super Bowl. That\u2019s just something somebody made up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said\u200d people were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oliver-anthony-addresses-people-trying-to-politically-label-him\/\" title=\"Oliver Anthony rejects political labels.\">wasting time speculating<\/a>\u200c about who he was and what he would \u2062do.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s \u200cjust somebody made them\u200c up and put them \u2063on the internet,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd \u200cso\u200b I\u2019m just letting them ride. \u2064I think \u200dit\u2019s \u200dgreat\u2026 At least the last \u200dcouple of weeks, I\u2019ve\u2063 been able to\u200c entertain everyone and get everyone\u2019s\u200c mind off all the other horrible stuff that\u2019s going on in the world right now. Like,\u200c at least everybody can have a good laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthony also said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lefts-reaction-to-biden-admin-social-media-case-shows-their-true-position-on-free-speech-ben-shapiro-says\/\" title=\"Ben Shapiro claims that the left's response to the Biden administration's social media case reveals their stance on free speech.\">supported free speech<\/a> and the Second Amendment.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Anthony, the singer behind the hit &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond,&#8221; expressed in an interview that he is being unfairly labeled by others to align with their political views. Christopher Anthony, his real name, believes people are trying to fit him into a specific political box to suit their own worldview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2018276,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2018275","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}