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Perfect example of the emerging subgenre of Shitlib Yokel Kitsch.

Midwit academic tumblr-tier “Queering the Coal Mines” revisionism clumsily smuggled into “gritty alt-country” packaging to satisfy the ideological indulgences of In This House… suburban wine moms
The culture is dead. Cooked through completely. Every inch of it has been colonized to sell competing kitsch merch. Every pocket of free, unclaimed territory has been processed through the kitsch filter. This kind of deep woods grit-country is just the latest casualty. Sad!
Yes, Aldean is conservative kitsch. It’s normiecon bait.

The difference is, we know that. There’s no pretension otherwise. Childers and his fans and Rolling Stone otoh have to pretend what they’re doing is some profound, deeply authentic counter cultural subversion…“real art”
“Important.” “Daring.” “Stunning and Brave.”

No akshually it is fake and gay and whatever genuine artistic impulses might have once inspired you have been subsumed by the kitsch borg and you are now reduced to selling banal agitprop to AWFL roasties. Ah well.

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