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Morgan Wallen Suspended From Label

Kelly A said:
Okay let's compare. Here's a list going back to the 70's:
www.vox.com

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020

Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s “the least racist person.” His history suggests otherwise.
www.vox.com www.vox.com
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OK. Then I'm bowing out, since this was not the intent of this thread.


www.postregister.com

Biden is a racist, which cannot be denied

R.F. Bonney continues to claim that President Trump is a racist with their piece “So, Trump is not a racist?”
www.postregister.com www.postregister.com

apnews.com

Biden risks alienating young Black voters after race remarks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden's controversial remarks about race this week risk alienating young Black voters who despise President Donald Trump but are not inspired by his Democratic rival.
apnews.com apnews.com

www.theguardian.com

'Things have changed': can Biden overcome the racist legacy of the crime bill he backed?

The 1994 crime bill paved the way to mass incarceration of Black Americans. Biden says his support was a ‘mistake’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

 
A poll was done finding that a majority of country listeners are unaware of a Morgan Wallen ban:

https://news.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n40124

I'm not surprised. I'm not aware that any radio stations have made a big deal about it. They're just not playing his music.

He has four hits, so it's easy to miss that his four hits aren't getting played.
 
Mike Gallagher was not the only conservative talk show that discussed the Dixie Chicks. I never listened to the guy, and I heard about the incident, and the boycott. The story was discussed by other talk shows, and even made the radio news, because the war was on, and anything said by country or rock or pop stars about the Iraq war got heard about fairly quickly. I'm sure it was discussed by country radio shows as well.

I don't know personally if the Dixie Chicks' incident wiped their career, as I have only extremely vague recollections of the ins and outs of country radio charts from 2003 and thereafter. I don't recall them having many huge hits after the one where the guy gets poisoned and stuffed in a car trunk and then dumped in a lake.... the 'Earl' song, whatever its real title was. I think that one was before the London incident.

As far as the original subject goes, it doesn't take much to wreck your career. Ask Pee Wee Herman.
 
boombox4 said:
I don't know personally if the Dixie Chicks' incident wiped their career, as I have only extremely vague recollections of the ins and outs of country radio charts from 2003 and thereafter. I don't recall them having many huge hits after the one where the guy gets poisoned and stuffed in a car trunk and then dumped in a lake.... the 'Earl' song, whatever its real title was. I think that one was before the London incident.

As far as the original subject goes, it doesn't take much to wreck your career. Ask Pee Wee Herman.
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I saw an interview a few months ago where the Dixie Chicks admitted that being what amounts to de-platformed, crashed and burned their career as it was. Most of them seemed to shrug it off and go on with their lives.

At the time, they found out really quick, that the majority of country music fans consider themselves God-fearing, Republican President-supporting, Second Amendment-protecting,-'Conservatives' (see; MAGA's). Now they're taking a different tack, in an effort to appeal to a more sophisticated audience. Will they be as successful? Doubt it, but they don't seem to care either.

Regarding Paul Rubens' version: Pee Wee appealed to kids. When word gets out an actor is arrested mastering his own domain in an adult theater? Parent's don't want to explain that to their kids.
 
TheBigA said:
A poll was done finding that a majority of country listeners are unaware of a Morgan Wallen ban:

https://news.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n40124

I'm not surprised. I'm not aware that any radio stations have made a big deal about it. They're just not playing his music.

He has four hits, so it's easy to miss that his four hits aren't getting played.
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Interesting. I noticed Sirius XM was not playing his songs on "The Highway" channel, but I knew to pay attention for it.

Probably there's just too many other Country songs in rotation for the casual listener to notice if they didn't know the story.
 
FYI, Morgan Wallen has returned to his record label's roster. As a result, there are some changes in his status, as reported here by Country Aircheck:

The CMA has amended the restrictions it previously placed on Morgan Wallen's eligibility for this year's awards. While still ineligble for individual artist categories (Male Vocalist and Entertainer), Wallen will now be eligible in categories that are collaborative (Single, Song, Album, Event and Video). This follows Big Loud adding Wallen back to the artist roster on their website on Monday (5/17). Additionally, Mediabase monitored airplay shows many stations owned by companies who had dropped Wallen's music in February (CAT 2/03) have quietly re-added titles over the past week. Stations now playing Wallen again include Cox's WHKO/Dayton, KKBQ/Houston and KCYY/San Antonio; and iHeartMedia's WDXB/Birmingham, WEZL/Charleston, SC, KWBL/Denver, WQIK/Jacksonville, WAMZ/Louisville and KSD/St Louis. Audacy and Cumulus stations continue to show no spins. Total spins on Wallen titles among the reporting panel over the past seven days have increased nearly 26% (1,173 to 1,474) compared to the previous seven days.
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Here's some analysis from Townsquare's Taste of Country:

tasteofcountry.com

Country Music Association Decides Morgan Wallen's Fate for 2021 CMA Awards

Morgan Wallen won't be allowed to be nominated in major categories on the 2021 CMA Awards ballot, but he will be allowed in some of them.
tasteofcountry.com tasteofcountry.com
 
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