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Does Being a Morgan Wallen Fan Make You MAGA? Why the Country Bad Boy’s Music Is Trump-Coded
Morgan Wallen's music may not mention Trump, but his image is indisputably MAGA-coded. Is it possible to enjoy his music without seeing red hats?
And just a few weeks ago, he returned to “SNL” as a musical guest and abruptly walked off the stage during the traditional show-ending onstage grip-and-grin — later posting a photo of his private jet with the caption, “Get me back to God’s country,” tacitly transforming the incident into an owning-the-libs moment, complete with merch. Needless to say, R. Kelly’s music, which was a romantic soundtrack for countless millions of people for many years, has taken on a completely different context in the wake of his horrifying but long-unpunished sexual misconduct — which the world seemed to forget about for nearly a decade. But before I could hit “skip,” the groove kicked in and the band was pumping hard and then a 22-year-old Eric Clapton — who, long after this song was recorded, made a drunken, racist statement about “keeping Britain white” and became a notorious anti-vaxxer who recently raised $2.2 million for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ill-fated presidential campaign, calling him “ a great man ” — blasted off a ferociously exciting solo.
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