To be abundantly clear: Country music will milk whatever cash cow extends a distended udder. Always has. Always will.
Wallen is, at the moment, the udder of choice. However he and his handlers frame this, it will be excused and dismissed. He'll get a "victim of cancel culture" sob story, a redemption and unity narrative, or both.
And he will continue to be a gapingly untalented *problem* who allows to take up far too much space that black artists will still not be allowed to enter.
His one skill is in leveraging of-the-moment media. I'm exactly cynical enough about the bullshit the country industry pulls to question whether or not he and his team knew exactly how this would play out in his favor.
And I hope I'm wrong about all of that. We're a blog with a tiny footprint and no actual industry connections. People with actual influence to fuck this shit up? Do it.
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