I secretly love ultra-reactionary country music videos where artists angrily beat their chests about being southern and conservative and express deep-seated suspicion of yankees

Especially these two. Actually, only these two. I don't know any other ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTW35jWh7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg

are there any others like this?

haven't listen yet but that looks promising: will hear this at home, full blast, for an optimal experience. big fan of anti-intellectualism 'tude.

Second one is actually a pretty good song imo. First one is just sort of creepy and batshit but I enjoy the darkness of it.

fwiw I think there are threads where both are discussed. hoping to find other examples. Hank Jr. is a pretty good songwriter/performer, aside from being reprehensible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br98ad469og

this song is great though

"I ain't tradin' in my family's safety / Just to save a little gas"

lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1GZzucDMlQ

this one too

lol what is up with the military stuff laced throughout that video xpost

nice one euler. kind of want to make a mix of these now.

accidental yankee

Fly Over States isn't really in the same realm as the first two songs. For the most part, it's just an advertisement for the Oklahoma board of tourism or whatever. It's not political or confrontational at all.

not so angry, but a great video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoiiwxTWeE

"are there any others like this?"

lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VgEU_Xi7QU

happened upon this one. also not really angry at all, just defensive. I just find it funny the way it seems like he keeps making that "I'm a little bit dumb" face on purpose.

And you best believe /that a self-hatin' yankee can have one up his sleeve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQzw_Ax8Cw

..Aaron Lewis' "Country Boy"

And there's Eric Church's "Homeboy," the best song of the bunch.

Aeriel View on WFMU did an entire show about this last week. Not sure if you heard it, but here's the link ... show's full of all sorts of goodies, including some songs posted here.

Small Town Songs Must Stop

xpost and Eric Church's "How 'Bout You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7-Bhw3wBRs

Holy SHIT is my reaction to You Do Your Thing by Montgomery Gentry

Lumineers >>>>>> any song I've managed to listen to itt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FuQ83HQ_A

cant imagine why anyone wouldnt like or trust yankees, literally the worst examples of humanity that the world can offer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE

side note: all these songs have the exact same structure and "exciting" sound in the chorus

the vocal rhythm on a country boy can survive always reminded me of another song... i think the night the lights went out in georgia

lol at The Witcher being used for that Charlie Daniels song

wtf @ 2:37 into "Yo Do Your Thing" - I'm chasing after a drug dealer with a baseball bat while my kids cheer me on, but hey look, MLK approves!

I secretly think that ultra-reactionary southern conservatives are ignorant hate-mongers

Along with Okie (and performed a few minutes later it seems) this one is a foundational document

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAFmFsb9XM

It's not nearly as colorful though, save "squirrelly guy who don't believe in fightin'". I've got a Charlie Louvin version somewhere that's got a lot more anger than Merle musters.

Since Merle didn't live it like he wrote it, there's a detached bemusement to his delivery that really comes across in these videos.

"Runnin' Kind" is another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWG09Yv24KY

Most of Hag's early eighties material is beautifully sung, tuneful, and reactionary.

oh ha, I just watched another Hank Jr. video where he sang some song about "not apologizing for america" and it had the phrase "fightin side of me."

why do you like this

for the rhetorical technique, these songs always remind me of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

I've been thinking about that -- of course a good part of it is irony/disbelief/the over-the-topness of all of it. But I think it's also partly related to that thing Kim Gordon says about seeing rock musicians perform -- you're paying to watch someone else believe in themselves. Take away the content, and the appeal of these songs is a kind of bombastic certainty, certainty to an extreme fault, that isn't there in most music I listen to.

okay i do have to say that the first montgomery gentry video is like the irl version of cs lewis jr.

It's Country Crust. Do they owe us a living? Of course they fucking don't.

I really like "Where I Come From"! I heard it in the mall last week.

I like the banjoesque guitar part in that eric church song

I kind of like the stoner good ole' boy tunes better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DG