{"id":597949,"date":"2021-07-20T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597949"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:06:40","slug":"staind-singer-aaron-lewis-angers-left-with-conservative-themed-song-record-refuses-to-cancel-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/staind-singer-aaron-lewis-angers-left-with-conservative-themed-song-record-refuses-to-cancel-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Staind Singer Aaron Lewis Angers Left with Conservative-Themed Song, Record Refuses to Cancel Him"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fstaind-singer-aaron-lewis-angers-left-with-conservative-themed-song-record-refuses-to-cancel-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=597949&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\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1076881950-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Staind frontman Aaron Lewis has a musical message for liberals: He loves his country and his flag and he\u2019s tired of watching the Left tear the nation apart.<\/p>\n<p>In a new song titled \u201cAm I the Only One,\u201d released just before the July 4th holiday, the singer asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>\u201cAm I the only one who quits singin\u2019 along <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every time they play a Springsteen song \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Am I the only one sittin\u2019 here<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Still holdin\u2019 on, holdin\u2019 back my tears<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the ones who paid with the lives they gave<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God bless the U.S.A<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m not the only one, willin\u2019 to fight<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For my love of the red and white<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the blue, burnin\u2019 on the ground<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another statue comin\u2019 down in a town near you<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Watchin\u2019 the threads of Old Glory come undone<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m not the only one<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lewis\u2019 patriotic fervor angered leftists like popular music blogger and longtime critic Bob Lefsetz, who wrote a scathing <a href=\"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/15\/the-aaron-lewis-track\/\">review<\/a> of the tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s HEINOUS!,\u201d Lefsetz said. \u201cThis middle class, right-wing wanker has recorded a song that should have been played at CPAC, in between speeches by nitwits like Lauren Boebert saying to refuse the \u201cFauci ouchie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lefetz went on to slam Lewis\u2019 label for releasing the song, saying, \u201cWhy does [the Valory music company] release such crap? Come on Scott Borchetta, David Geffen dropped the Geto Boys over their odious lyrics and now you\u2019re marketing this junk \u2026 You see Geffen made billions and they all want that money too. Come on Scott, get your head out of your rear end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/aaron-lewis-liberal-bashing-defended-big-machine-refuses-cancel\">Fox News<\/a> first reported, Borchetta, the head of Big Machine, Valory\u2019s parent company, responded with a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/16\/scott-borchetta-responds\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly, I believe in the First Amendment,\u201d Borchetta said. \u201cMy job has never been to tell my artists what to sing and write about.&nbsp; My job has always been about identifying unique talent with a unique voice and a unique point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borchetta then went on to point out that his label has produced left-wing songs as well, like Sheryl Crow\u2019s single \u201cThe Woman in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He finished with this pointed rebuke of cancel culture in the music industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>Aaron Lewis and I have political disagreements.&nbsp; But there are also things we agree on.&nbsp; I think that\u2019s the foundation for the idea of our country.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t work if we\u2019re so divided that we can\u2019t reach across the aisle, have a conversation or an argument, and ultimately, shake hands.&nbsp; If we can\u2019t do that, and this moment is so divisive, we may never get our country back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To just \u2018cancel\u2019 (drop) Aaron is ridiculous and I\u2019m disappointed that you would even suggest such a thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Lewis made his mark in the music industry as a hard rock singer, \u201cAm I the Only One\u201d is a massive hit in the Country genre, entering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9599687\/aaron-lewis-am-i-the-only-one-hot-country-songs\/\">Billboard<\/a> chart at number one. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2021\/07\/18\/aaron-lewis-cancel-demand\/\">Digital Music News<\/a>, there have been \u201c4 million streams of the track in the past week alone. And that\u2019s before the track goes to country radio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staind frontman Aaron Lewis has a musical message for liberals: He loves his country and his flag and he\u2019s tired of watching the Left tear the nation apart.In a new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597949","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\/597949","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=597949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597949\/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=597949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}