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The hype machine's favorite son
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The hype machine's favorite son

Is Oliver Anthony "fake"? Probably not - but the media buzz around him is a different story.

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Carl Beijer
Aug 15, 2023
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I knew there was something contrived about Rich Men North of Richmond as soon as he started talking about money. Richmond, 2023’s late-summer country music anthem for every middle-to-upper-class suburban Republican you’ve ever met, has been hailed by an endless parade of GOP pundits and operatives as Oliver Anthony’s authentic wail of the South’s suffer…

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