Sometimes a song comes along that can really capture the collective pain of a specific moment.
This is what's happened with the new hit song "Rich Men North of Richmond" by previously unknown musician Oliver Anthony. This song has gone viral.
The song hit home for millions of forgotten men and women all over the US, who understand it because it's about their lives, about a ruling class that has made them dependent on it and then left them to wither in the sun like an old weed, a ruling class that has shuttered the factories they worked in and increased prices to the point where they're all in debt and can no longer even afford decent food to eat that isn't full of chemicals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro
Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond 54,651,141 views Aug 9, 2023 #1 on Trending for music
I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
Overtime hours for bullsh– pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Livin’ in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do