So the other I was scrolling Instagram and clicked on post that showed Joe Rogan backstage at a Zach Bryan show. Being a dumdum, I looked at the comments because I wanted to get some context.
Within the first few comments, a dude called Zach a dollar store imitation of Tyler Childers. Someone responded to him that Childers was good until he went ‘woke.’ I quickly showed myself out of the comments after that.
Aside from the idea of comparing the two artists being extremely ridiculous, accusing an altcountry/Americana artist of going ‘woke’ is pretty silly. A good portion of the artists are pretty progressive.
The guy did a whole album about police brutality during the Black Lives Matter movement…
I’m sure that the person complaining about him “going woke” was referring to that. Like I said, complaining about artists in this genre being progressive or liberal leaning is like complaining that water is wet.
