it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to? man it's always been that way

True. But there’s always a downside grasshopper.. there’s more folks than ever putting there stuff out independently but alot of it’s noise (matter of perspective) Lotta folks taking up space.. anyone can make it but damn.. sure is crowded

But you need a label to continue

@@xxZerosumxx social media manager at most

@LavaDude He's signed with the UTA label last year.

Let’s goooo

Exactly!!!❤

99% probably

Nope

Probably 99% of us now consider most the wealth is with the top 1% 😂 what a legend this guy is

Because it's all true!!!

Except for the fact that half ways through the song, he turns on those very people and attacks the poor and working class. Read the lyrics.

He's referring to people getting rewarded for sitting on their pockets all day while others are out grinding, making things happen. Welfare became a reward system for those that are flat out lazy and funded by those that live paycheck to paycheck working jobs that alot of welfare recipients consider below them. Welfare is supposed to be for a hand up, not a hand out. Most Americans realize the importance of welfare, but know how abused its become.

@@TubaTones BS--it is not right that us taxpayers have to pay for some who milk the welfare to keep their 5'3" 300lb body full of bags of fudge rounds....while most can barely buy enough food and gas to keep our ourselves alive...

@@TubaTonesthe only lyric you’re talking about is referring to the lazy people who use government assistance to stay lazy rather than putting in the effort to better themselves. If you’re 5’3” and 300lbs using government money to stay 300lbs then you dont really need it compared to people who actually are starving.

Don't mistake envy for 'pain'

Are people really that concerned about what people on food stamps eat though?

@@NinjaThatLongboards You missed the class when they taught about using Metaphors in grade school right ?

@@terrywbreedlove "And the obese milkin' welfare Well, God, if you're five-foot-three and you're three-hundred pounds Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds" What's the metaphor here?

Think it through @@NinjaThatLongboards

@@NinjaThatLongboardspoint is they’re gettin fat off the money of hard workin people when they themselves aren’t doin shit.

Absolutely love his voice..

sad that they dont make real country music anymore

Meh. This is more like mountain music then country music.

Radio wv and appalchia untold are full of appalchian singer song writers just like him

Old country music yes, this new era of "country" music is garbage in my opinion.

No one should have a monopoly on talent or anything else for that matter

I honestly felt like munting.

That’s how country use to be, now it’s nothing but pop music with an accent

Me too

As he said it

The market is just predictable 😅.

AI will never duplicate feelings, only manipulate. Don't be a stupid head down person.......look to the sky, that's where your Father dwells!

That the 2nd verse?

Sounds more like he needs to make better choices about where he works to me …. Unless he wants to go thru life always blaming “The Rich Man” for his troubles ….

Ya and that song fucking blows

Same here buddy. Ended up on a boat for a weekend and the only CD was Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard- “Pancho and lefty”. If you’re getting older and tired and ever been done wrong by a woman it is an incredible album. Especially if you drink and smoke, I’d recommend it heavily.

Country is about real life even of you don't live in a rural area. It's relatable.

@@joshmcdevitt137 Ah, glad to know you had a terrible time. We hope you don't return.

​@@joshmcdevitt137why dont you like it? Are you using food stamps to buy fudge rounds or something?

That’s just music, dudes calling cultural appropriation already by saying “that’s soul right there”

@@missionpupa That's your opinion, but if you can't look at him and listen to him and think he's got soul in his voice....you may be lacking

@@MfConnor he sounds like a human person to me with a human voice. I would say hes a very good singer, and if you ask me, he sounds like Ed Sheeran, is Ed a soul singer?

@missionpupa I see your point but I am going to agree to disagree on this one 😉 best to you 🥰

I don’t like it. I think it’s a trap. It’s tempting people into despair and victimhood. He keeps saying “this is how things are now” in a defeated way. Eff that. The fight isn’t over. He’s demoralizing people and tricking them into loving defeat. Just look at the record label he signed with. He’s a snake.

Shut up and listen to "WAP" - corporate america

@@barneyboyle6933it’s not acceptance it’s the harsh reality and his tone of voice reflects that it’s a reality. Yes the fight isn’t over and he never said definitively this is how things will stay just you know. Recognizing there is a problem and giving it a platform for others to see it as well. Once you recognize there is a problem and you can get others to admit there is a problem, you can go about fixing it. You can’t fix a problem if you aren’t able to recognize it as one. That’s all this song did was put it in a format to where many people can see that there’s a problem here and it can be a “it is what it is” situation or you can have a backbone and start the slow journey to fixing it. That is all or at-least how I interpreted it. Life’s all about perspective my friend

​​@@barneyboyle6933it is the way things are now. That don't mean you can't change it. I've also heard he wrote it when he was dealing with depression. And I can tell you, when i was feeling down n out like that, I wrote what I felt. Got some damn good poems and songs out of it. Aint nobody a victim unless you let yourself become one. They said I had depression, but I aint never HAD depression. Catch me? (*Edit idk what label he signed with tho so you could be right, but we could both be)

​@barneyboyle6933 💯 bud! ❤ It's more conditioning, brainwashing the majority to know, think and believe all the bad, and wrong and furthermore that there is nothing you can do. I've been trying to drip feed this to people for time now. Imo this guy is another who will be famous for 15 minutes then fade into obscurity. Duality at work again.....the one side he's singing loud with heart and soul about the wrong done to us, and at same time he's a "nobody" who can again give that little false hope to people that, you can do it....another pide piper!

yes HE duze & U know wut els 🤨 mother fucka can sing & he'z singing from a place that'z deep down & so real it'z on a nutha 🎚️ level

It’s a pretty lame song though.

@@TylerSmith-qx6uz not if it'z real nigga 🤨 WUT are u 1 of thoze PROS'STATE🧐SER'VAYEZ

I get goosebumps and chills every time I hear his voice it’s crazy

I’m absolutely certain that this song is on such a higher level than the music you listen to, you can’t even consider them both music. This is what music is. You liking it is entirely irrelevant, it’s legitimate music. I trust you’ve never actually heard music. Only garbage with catchy beats with lyrics some asshole in a corporate office wrote for your pawn of an “artist” who is nothing but a bitch for these oligarchs and simply do what they say. Tell me, what absolute garbage with utterly meaningless lyrics do you listen to? @@TylerSmith-qx6uz

Main stream media would never allow that

But I agree

@@alexdonnelly9821high school dropout wonders why he can’t make a living.

I think he's probably doing just fine at this time. ​@steveb796

@@crazydee1955 gonna have to change his tune then.

guy is a lazy pothead and makes a song whining about how much his life sucks.

Facts

As do I. As do we all.

As do i.

😂😂 yeah what was that about??? It's a great phone 😂

Same

I use Samsung S10e, is that bad?

@@moretac Joe would spite you! But no, great device lol

@@John.Christopher it wasn’t the phone, it was the fact he recorded it on KZfaq and then downloaded the sound mix from KZfaq to then upload to Spotify and it sounds like that. No mixers, no fancy microphones, just a man and his feelings!

A man of integrity can't conform with the system.

Let's pray this soul remains.

@@mubashirmohiuddin5346 Don't make shit up. We can tell.

@@j102h pls continue to put a human on a such a high pedestal why don’t you. This man is not God. A quick google search will show you what I’m talking about. This isn’t about me trying to deceive you 😂

He's pretty arrogant about those on welfare.

damn this videos are straight trash these days. video is titled "how oliver anthony got the no. 1 song with no prior songs" and then tells you jack shit. most of us humans are so fucking stupid we watched the whole thing knowing full well it was click bait and not going to tell us anything. explains the state of the world.

Eh life has generally sucked for all of human existence, join the fucking club. Enjoy the good times and maybe don’t smoke pot all day.

​@@shakeandbaked1medieval peasants had more days off than the modern working class citizen. Capitalism and corporate greed absolutely fucked the working class and now there is no middle class and they aren't building any new affordable entry level homes. Our bosses want us to live at work and bend over backwards for the company that doesn't give a flying fuck about you. But yea stop smoking pot because that's the problem with the world. Not the fact corporations, gov, and private entities have overstepped boundaries and abuse the fact that now people are more easily controllable than ever because they are literally too tired/broke to actually give a shit, much less do something about it. Meanwhile the next generation is addicted to Internet devices and social media and zero communication skills in person, the system isn't even broken, its all by design

He literally blames obese people for all of the problems.. the fuck are you all on about? Not only that, but it was straight up confirmed that he's an industry plant for right wingers....

Bob dylan in the 60s

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT... HIS ANCESTORS STOLE EVERYTHING FROM THE NATIVE AMERICANS... LOL HE IS SHAMEFULLY COMPLAINING... HE WOULD BE IN EUROPE... HIS ANCESTORS STOLE EVERYTHING FROM THE NATIVE AMERICANS... HE HAS NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT..

It’s hilarious how republicans try to use this as an anthem not realizing that the workers conditions are directly due to deregulation of corporations

The Bible says something like that

I'm 41 and I remember people saying this 20 yrs ago.

I'm 46 and I've been working 70-80 hours a week for the last 28 years. My father showed me this by working his ass off his whole life only to get cancer and pass away at 56. He told me he wished he would have been able to spend more time with us but he had to make money to feed us and keep a roof over our head, he didn't even get to enjoy his golden years of retirement....I'm afraid that's the path I'm on now, we are ALL just slaves of the system

Yes!!!!! You are so right. We may speak different languages but go through the same stuff 👍

Same old same old country music blah

Here in The Netherlands also a huge hit and a lot of people can relate to it. Similar shit is going on by the governments printing money and spending like it’s nothing but in the end the lower and middle class can pay the price for it. Bring back musicians again and let them write their own songs… lots of love and respect!

Not universal. It's a first world problem so not universal. English language song likely more relevant meaning for Americans UK Can Aus NZ. Lot of Europe has good working pay conditions, good work life balance, good holidays etc . Places like Sweden Denmark etc People in Africa Asia and the Americas would love to have a damn job with overtime to go to and pay to feed and provide for their kids and families.

@@user-em4dx6sg7y I beg to differ frontwards, look at the problems Sweden is facing now with immigration etc. Also in europe we saw our savings go up in flames worth only 80% of its original value, and with the first world leading the rest of the economy, It’s a global issue…

I think most people are missing the point of this song in that he's lost hope. Hope has been stolen from his by those controlling our society. Without hope people are sitting on their asses and smoking pot all day because they see no point in putting effort into life.

@@bubbajones4522 When you blame other people for your situation, you`ve given them permission to control you. Stop making excuses, breaking promises and blaming others. Easy to say, hard to do, but watch your world change for the better when it becomes your mission.

​@@bubbajones4522He didn't lose hope. He is putting out the battle cry. Wake up and listen

@@curbmassayea you gotta take responsibility and initiative in your life absolutely but, the rich get richer while the middle class get closer to poor, price of life goes up and our pay stays the same. Our food is poison and if it’s not it’s expensive, our media is poison. You can grind and grind all day but it can feel hopeless when the powers that be wanna keep you down. When life feels like an endless grind to just keep the lights on and food in your families belly it can feel hopeless for sure.

​@@bubbajones4522He's not doing it becuawe there's no point so might as well smoke weed all day your making it way to simple. He's saying people like him and many turn to other avenues just to avoid a shitty life which is true.

I'm right there with ya my brother. We have to stand tall and hold the line!

There’s a pretty good video of Victor David Hanson on Independent Institute talking about the whole of the issues and how the left,politicians, Universities etc all know each other work one way or another together and how they have been and are destroying the country and have taken it way too far with their crazy self serving policies

We ain't alone brother.

What needa changing?

@@sempi8159 commonlaw revival needed. Love for God and Family. Less Government,not more. Ditch the FED, NIH, CIA, WHO, WEF.

Lmao you people live in a world where there is one way to think and feel and no exceptions. It’s fucking delusional at best.

Ok lol

​@@craigmusa2254your comment just makes you sound stupid. If you don't understand it, you're too young or just don't give a damn about anyone else's life.

Clearly you’ve never heard of Jelly Roll

Nobody said he’s the only one ,if yu feel he didn’t put his heart in it then say that.

@@dibonaa808thegreat7 The song is about fat people eating all his food away, isn't it? xD

💯 10

Exactly..hits you in the heart

I wish politicians would lookout for minors, not just minors on an island somewhere

It's the last line for me

its the third one fir me bruther

He made plenty of money where he worked. His suffering was self induced. He says he went home to waste his life away. He had plenty of money to do whatever he wanted with his life.

It is the most viral song ever

@@BlazeQuotes I think you can really see it when KZfaq reaction channels really get a hit with it. No matter what type of music they normally react to, the words get them. The song is literally just 4 chords but had such an impact on the nation.

@@BlazeQuotesit kinda capped off at 60-70 mill it’s far from the most viral song ever

No it is not even close...

Yea it’s definitely a great song but far from “never gonna give you up” as far as viralism

Yea talkin about the new world.. Trump really fucked this country up

holywood will fix that 'soul' problem he has give it a couple years

​@@TheTookiplatypus😂😂😂true

​@@TheTookiplatypus💀😂

😂

Glad to hear that Cam

Unique human being who hasn't evolved.

It's too bad he turned out to be a marxist faking shill

I think the boys confused. Seems like he points the finger equally at politicians and poor people for his problems, and those things are not in the same world of problems. Does some of your tax dollars go to poor people? Sure. But the majority of it goes to rich people as decided by our politicians. I wish it was reversed. I wished the poor got 90% of our taxes and the defense contractors and all the other ghouls who are raking in our money got the 10% but that’s not how the politicians set this all up. This kid is mad and rightfully so, but he’s lost about who to blame.

The World needs a new Merle Haggard. This guy would fill those shoes perfectly

😂😂 pump the breaks. This song is extremely basic. Outside the lyrics its nothing special. Basic chord progression on an out of tune guitar with no vibrato in the vocals not singing with his diaphragm.

@@preston2636 it’s not about structure or technique. It’s about resonating with people.

Yes indeed

@@DamaniDugger-qq1bchu

He's from Virginia. 😂😂😂

​@user-pv8zw2bp9c Virginia is part of the South there genius... can tell you aren't from the south. WV here, most southern northern state (civil war) &, most northern southern state (we're the last southern state before you hit northern ones). Learn your shit if you're gonna talk it there hoss.

@@user-pv8zw2bp9cyeah that’s south

It resonates with a lot of every one's every where's.

Yeah people all over the world are suffering and just to live has become super expensive almost everywhere

I cried the first time I heard it

@@Krisplantlol

Until you find out the artist is upper middle class and this song is actually almost completely unknown outside of conservative echo chambers, but was astroturfed to appear popular.

Amen? Wtf does the word amen have to do with your sentence?

@@Krisplantthat’s pretty pathetic

MAGAs new theme song.....the perfect "I am a victim" song. The rest of us take responsibility for our lives and blame no one.

​@@jlvandat69I take no responsibility for the current economic state of the United States of America, did I "lose" 6 billion dollars overnight due to an accounting error? Should I take responsibility for the president drone striking people who both deserve and don't?

@@peskypenguinz I think you misunderstood me. I will try and explain better. It's unrealistic for a person to take responsibility for things outside their control such as how each tax dollar is spent or decisions made by military commanders during war. I was referring to responsibilities related to our own life. For example, my financial condition....it is I who chooses how and when to spend money so if I don't have a good savings account, it's my fault. Also in terms of personal health...It is I who chooses what to eat, and whether or not to exercise regularly. If I am obese, I take responsibility for that. I see way too many people who are dissatisfied with their life and blaming others, and it's concerning.

@@jlvandat69 okay that's a very valid statement, thank you for clarifying.

@@peskypenguinz 👍👍

Top g

It’s always been this my friend. Things have not changed except the rich got richer and the poor, more poor.

Until you listen to the rest of the song past this clip. Turns out the main cause of all our problems are fat people.

Except for dumb contradictory lyrics about welfare and obesity. A lot of those people are fat from cheap g0yslop that has very little nutritional value. A lot of those poor fat white people are in the same boat as him - getting exploited while the jevvish elites enrich themselves and have their own pedo islands

Jesus character was clinically insane... he fastest in the desert for 40 days and he started to exhibit signs of schizphrenia/psychosis... he started hallucinating and saw this character of the bible called "Lucifer" and Lucfier was "invisible" and had "Invisible powers" and only the people who had schizophrenia/manic psychosis could see the fake bible character... it's sad jesus needed a psych ward...

men like him don’t seek fame from the world they only want to pour their heart and soul into a song for us to drown away in

@@loading3933 that’s what makes him even more likable.

@@loading3933Yes very true. I saw him perform and met him, he doesn’t really like all the attention but at the same time he does a little bit. I think it’s just some adjustments he needs to tend to since his life has drastically changed all of a sudden

👊🏼yip I feel you

Crazy nothing makes you cry but a song? Maybe it’s a country thing or something.

True.

@@5methoxycrazy how some people put words into other peoples mouths then argue against those words which were never said.

@@heatshield ikr

True!

he definitely got a dollar now 😂

THE SAUCE! Thank you much!

Rich Men North of Richmond

Your channel name lmfao “cheekclappa”

😂😂😂it’s a brainless propaganda piece

​@@suspecthighly9852Wow. It must absolutely suck to be a cynical Regard

It relates because he has suffered. That first verse is personal, written in the first person. Those who feel they have suffered similarly relate to him.

guy is a lazy pothead and makes a song whining about how much his life sucks.

You need to check out the dax collaboration with this song

Dam, where have you been? 🤷🥵👍

Hes crying out for trump

This is what you call a true country song. Not many have been over the past years..

@@EternalResonancedo you support Biden the pedo?

Must have made alot of bad decisions in life

From all the comments, so many People listen yet few understand his message. Which is drinking and drugs will chain you to that lifestyle with no escape. But in a month time the song will begin to fade away and they’re still drunk and taking drugs. Shame but It’s a sad life for many.

He is talking about the new world order, most of the people in the world don’t know what that means… The new world order is something that we all must reject and super fast.

Hey, to break it to you. But this dude wasn't industrial equipment salesman. He was making bank. He wasn't working and slaving his ass off in a factory eighty hours a week. He basically had a desk job where he would call people and try to sell them things. Or even easier people would call him wanting to buy things. He had a cushy office job, not even blue collar.

When that happened to me I was praying every single day that God would have someone notice my hard work and offer me a better job or that I would run into someone and make a friend that would offer me a better job and after like 6 months that actually happened and I was making double what I was making before I was praying about it

Get yo bread up

@@victormunoz1571 it’s not always what you know but who you know and also the location of where you live. If you live in an area that the economy is shit and theirs very little options in that area unless you know someone or were taught by your family like your dad or given an opportunity than you don’t have much options other than maybe school and some ppl can’t wait 4 years or more to make good money they have to make money right when they are old enough like me where I had to start working when I was 15 or I wasn’t gonna eat enough food. You can’t sell drugs in certain areas either cause not all places have a market for it and police are heavy and theirs more ppl that will tell than stay solid so that might not be an option there either. A lot of ppl need to either work their way up and that takes years and years of not taking days off and working harder than anyone else in the whole company and not making mistakes much or you need to know someone or go to school.

That works out to about 60hrs a week. 6240 hours total in 2 years. If you spent that much time building a small construction/landscaping company for yourself after 2 years you'd be telling your 3 employees what to do. Facts. Take some initiative. Peace.

@@aprilaclarkgotta have the capital funds to start something like that. So please, the people who were given things, don't act like it was hard. Don't act like people can just go out & get 100k loans. it's rude to have this thought process in general. 5 years ago when i was struggling, i just had to keep going... now i am in 6 figures a year, but i still remember where i came from & dont demean or talk down to people.

Yeah hence why the people in DC HATE maga.

Yep! That's precisely it

That's why they'll never vote for term limits. Hogs at the trough.

@@monstertrucktennis We need to IMPOSE term limits. We need state initiatives from the people.

​@@freesk8half the people here complaining are the same people who constantly vote against their own best interest. There are lawmakers calling for term limits, among other things, but they are Democrat and half these people are too brainwashed and been lied to for so long that they are only worried about some "wide open borders" lie. If they stopped to look at the voting record of those they support they would see those representatives are not at all representing their best interest, especially in labor/wages/worker rights. Worse if you bring up that the federal minimum wage hasn't been charged in almost 15 freaking years, while Congress immediately votes for their own raises every year, you get the insane experience of seeing corporate bootlickers defending the wage scam. They parrot they same dumb right wing narrative about "starter jobs for highschool kids" rather than realize that yes, everyone has been getting screwed on wages. Stop voting against your own interest you dummies!

A song of despair and drinking one's problems away.... Dudes just being a whiney pussy, "Instead of being proactive and changing the world! I'm just gonna whine and bitch about it all the way to the bank!" Hopefully it didn't reach the youth lol