Elon Musk To Buy Country Music for $89 Billion. “Time to Fix It.”
In a groundbreaking development for one of America’s most long-standing cultural institutions, billionaire entrepreneur, inventor, and investor Elon Musk is purchasing country music for $89 billion in hopes of returning the genre to its past greatness.
The deal will include all of country music’s dedicated major and independent labels, all major radio stations, the Grand Ole Opry and all of its satellite properties, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the annual CMA and ACM Awards, as well as the rights to the defunct Kenny Rogers Roasters fast food chicken franchise.
“Country music is the bedrock of American culture, and actual country music is where matters vital to the hearts and souls of music fans around the world are broached,” said Mr. Musk in a statement. “I also want to make country music better than ever by bringing back the twang and roots, the quality songwriting of the past, giving independent artists equal footing, finally defeating Bro-Country, and making sure all the performers are authentic. Country music has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the country music industry to unlock it.”
Musk’s motivation for the purchase was the suppression, shadow banning, and outright expulsion of many real country artists by the country format over the last many years. “How can you have country music without ‘King’ George Strait, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson regularly playing on the radio, and competing for country music’s big awards?” Elon asked. He also conducted a poll on his Twitter account, asking followers if they thought today’s country music was actually country, with the vast majority of respondents saying “no.”
Though some may be surprised the native South African would be so into country music, a video of Elon Musk singing Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” while roasting marshmallows and sipping whiskey from back in 2017 recently resurfaced.
.@elonmusk roasting marshmallows drinking whiskey singing Johnny Cash wins the internet today IMO #SpaceX #tech #billionairefun #simasays pic.twitter.com/vRaUBTSIo6
— Sima 🌱 (@simakumar) October 26, 2017
Then on Tuesday morning (4-16), Elon Musk posted an image of himself in a cowboy hat on Instagram with the simple caption, “Yee-haw 🤠.” Little did we know that he was hours away from announcing the acquisition of the entire country music genre in hopes of returning it to past greatness.
But of course, this is all bullshit (well, the “Ring of Fire” and Instagram post are true). The real truth is country music unfortunately won’t have some benevolent billionaire benefactor swoop into to solve the genre’s problems via executive fiat, nor should country fans wait with bated breath for such an event to happen. Instead, it’s up to all of us the seek out the best artists, share them with our friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors, because the best artists are being suppressed and shadow banned by the industry, while mediocrity and lack of authenticity reigns in the genre, similar to on social media.
It would be nice for someone to purchase and revitalize the Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurants though. Love that chicken.
CountryKnight
April 26, 2022 @ 11:29 am
No Frankfurter in the article??!!
Family must be on vacation.
Sean
April 27, 2022 @ 5:24 am
Orville Peck already saved country
edy Z
April 27, 2022 @ 2:24 pm
Really. interesting🤠🥸 Good luck Musk
Debbie
April 28, 2022 @ 2:16 am
I KNEW THIS WAS BULL CRAP THE MOMENDEBBIET I SEEN THE ARTICLE.
DebbieHater403
April 28, 2022 @ 9:41 am
You’re a fucking idiot
Gina
April 28, 2022 @ 9:42 am
Yes this article a waste of time
Noretreat
April 27, 2022 @ 8:45 pm
‘western country swing’ has been on the way home to America via an Australian chartered route piloted and navigated by…………
“THE FRENCH FAMILY BAND”
facebook & y-tube
PC
April 27, 2022 @ 11:31 pm
Melon Husk isn’t capable of fixing himself a bowl of cereal in the morning.
JaytheHammer
April 28, 2022 @ 7:56 am
@PC. No, really? He founded PayPal, Solar City, Tesla and the Boring Company …. He does more each day before you sit down in your double wide for Captain Crunch than you will in your lifetime.
Steve
April 28, 2022 @ 11:33 am
He is rich enough to not only have someone available 24/7 to pour milk into his cereal bowl, he can hire someone to be available 24/7 to pre-chew his food.
This is a form of trickle-down economics.
Max Headroom
April 28, 2022 @ 4:03 am
Ya-Hoo! Ride Um, Cowperson!!
Phyllis C Kilgore
April 28, 2022 @ 6:56 am
I have Albums of a lot of people in the Country Music Album
I LOVE TO SELL! IF ANYONE IS WILLING TO BUY THEM !
Rose
April 28, 2022 @ 8:32 am
So this is the man who wants to convince us that he doesn’t have a place to live and sleeps at different friends places? Right! Twitter- freedom of speech; Country Music-savior; who’s next? Save yourself from the ill-conceived notions about real life. Then buy 25 seniors like myself a modest house and you can house hop .
FrumpyDumpling71
April 28, 2022 @ 10:07 am
Did you read to the end? It’s satire. Even reading the hashtags could have given you a clue… The #fakenews should have cookies you in.
Kittnz
April 28, 2022 @ 10:10 am
Lol I am kind of with you I that one I be happy to Host him a space if he Built me a space. plus Using Tesla Solar and Tesla Car with Charger and A bucket list ride in outer space . And Perhaps My final resting spot Send to outer space for my funeral.
William A Haugh
April 27, 2022 @ 3:47 pm
Not even one to being the ‘Babylon Bee’.
Barron
April 27, 2022 @ 8:51 pm
Just because you can just does mean you should.
Russell Howell
April 27, 2022 @ 3:51 pm
Kudos for Elon Musk! The more I hear about him the more I’m liking him! He’s right! Country Music you gotta have fiddle and a flat steel guitar. Down here in Texas there are so many country writers and singers most mainstream America never hear of and that’s ashamed! Don’t get me wrong. A lot of today’s music is good. But it’s Pop, not Country! Put Pop in Pop Genre and radio and put True Country Music in the Country genre and radio. True Country fans have missed a lot of good country music due to the pushing of producers and broadcasters pushing their artist into the Country genre cause that’s where the money is
,but it’s lost the true Country sound. I hope this article is true and Thank You Mr. Musk!
Roberta C Real
April 27, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
You didn’t read the entire article, did you?
Copasetic
April 27, 2022 @ 8:16 pm
Most people don’t read these things any more anyway. They just scan the title and that’s it. Clicks are all that matter. But that’s been going on for years. Once you click on the article they get credit for it. This is why misinformation is worse of a pandemic than COVID. And elections.
Who me..I'm nobody
April 28, 2022 @ 6:00 am
Well we happen to have a administration that there misinformation is right up there Russia and china 😂
Blind Melon
April 28, 2022 @ 2:14 am
No they didn’t lolol
Morons
Who me..I'm nobody
April 28, 2022 @ 6:07 am
While I am a old school country at heart and love fiddle (seen Charlie Daniels in concert more times than I could count on 2 hands) I have recently became fond of a couple new school artists like Morgan whallen and Luke combs. As a real country buff yourself I’m just curious do u enjoy new artists like I just mentioned?
Rocker
April 28, 2022 @ 6:07 am
Think I’ll stick with heavy metal.
Kannongunz
April 28, 2022 @ 7:31 am
Good luck he gonna need it hip hop is this country’s second largest export…if you own any musk stock it’s time to sell this mans focus is all over the place.
David
April 28, 2022 @ 9:01 am
Yeah, your definitely stupid. All over the place? Shit, you wish you too could be all over the place!!! You jealous POS 💩🤬
Jerry Ruiz
April 28, 2022 @ 9:27 am
He should purchase all the land at the southern border so he can finish the wall so these illegal aliens will not come through with drugs kidnapping women children and creating much more crime the cartels are coming through with crime is rising up this idiot president that we have is causing all this!!!!
Smart Human
April 28, 2022 @ 10:52 am
Ooh dear you have been greatly misinformed… Most immigrants (not aliens, stop dehumanizing them) cross the border to the US for more opportunities and/or to move from any danger from their homeland. Most crimes aren’t even caused by immigrants. And the reason why a lot of them are “illegal” is because of the procces to become legal is ridiculously selective and takes too long (it can take over a decade to finish the process).
Smart Human
April 29, 2022 @ 8:02 am
Also you have to be an idiot to believe that a wall would stop illegal immigration. That’s just not gonna happen. It’s too expensive and would take too long. And if it were to end up being completely built (which it isn’t and will never be, thank goodness) it’ll most definitely just end up being like the Berlin Wall and fall/be ineffective (FIY, immigrants aren’t stupid). Speaking of, anyone who knows about the fall of the Berlin Wall would, or at least should, easily oppose that wall plan.
So, instead of building a wall to prevent illegal immigrants, how about we actually make becoming a citizen not ridiculously hard, by y’know, fixing the citizenship system or whatever it’s called? That’s objectively a much better and more rational reason!
Matt Butterfield
April 29, 2022 @ 5:02 am
He could do other things with his money, what does he wanna do with country music? Does he even like country music? Give some money to charity’s, I never hear about him helpn the homeless or anything like that. He’s a CLOWN 🤡🤡🤡
Dan Owens
April 27, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
Ray Price said it best , he said when ask what he thought of county music and he said “THE SINGERS CANT SING,THE WRITERS CAN’T WRITE AND THE MUSICIANS CANT PLAY”…..
THIS SAYS IT ALL…..
Omni Guy
April 27, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
Any chance he could do the same thing for Rock and Roll? And, oh by the way, how the hell are Ten Years After NOT in the R&R HOF?
Mikey
April 27, 2022 @ 6:48 pm
Koe Wetzel already saved country music!
MSJANEDOE
April 27, 2022 @ 9:57 pm
I’ve never heard any country music fan complain about the state of country music. #ProudToBeAnAmerican
Trigger
April 27, 2022 @ 10:53 pm
^^ Comment of the Year ^^
Jo
April 27, 2022 @ 11:01 pm
Then your not listening!!
Disa
April 28, 2022 @ 6:29 am
A true country fan HAS complained about this NEW Country. I said many years ago that when George Jones dies, country as we know it will be dead too. Yes, we still gave Don Williams and John Anderson and a few more ORIGINAL Country singers around, they just don’t sing in public anymore..
Cheryl
April 28, 2022 @ 7:39 am
Maybe uou haven’t talked to any. Country music has become pop music with a twang. I rarely listen anymore.
Fred
April 27, 2022 @ 9:30 pm
Says an old fart that couldn’t roll with rhe changes
Disa
April 28, 2022 @ 6:32 am
We may be “”old farts””, but, we know Good Music. We grew up with the BEST Country AND oldies. Just wait until you become an “old fart””. Then maybe you will get it.
original model
April 27, 2022 @ 9:39 pm
.some of the real country still shines thru, like hankIII… I’ve yet to hear him on the radio!
-tear it up elon, one at a time.
Good man!
Judith Ann
April 28, 2022 @ 8:09 am
I found a country music “thing” radio station, that plays the very best of authentic country music. Plenty of Hank, George Jones, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Vern Godsen, Keith Whitely, and so many more. The program is called “Current” or MODE. I listen to that steel guitar just talking the Country Music, every day all day and nite. I love it! I’ve done tons surveys and gathered many points…their country music is the best!
Just in
April 27, 2022 @ 10:07 pm
Okay I’ll play along !?! The music business :(BY E lll) The one’s performing and right wing the songs of today are the best our industry has to offer there music is a reflection of what they feel n what they see going on around us all its life and its always changing nothing last forever so to sum it up if you dont like dont listen if you want change do it ur self start a band I became famous use in my hand feel meats short n sweet not still talkin bout my Tyme is up I got two go my souls broke down I need a tow just want to say to alll my hoes n bros get up get out and go see a show that’s how we sow the seeds that grow I kno it’s my Tyme I AM ready to go and bring peace thru out the world and across the middle east 👳♂️! Allah !! 🌏☮ Cum Men 🔜 to a city near Uuuu and Elon musk dont make me pick on U2 my brother I never doo fucscrew tight shoes ✌🦵🦲🤠🖕🏻dont believe the fake news jkt69 JUST1.
W. Justice
April 27, 2022 @ 6:55 pm
If you can buy this, you will by All the BS that MSDNC, CNDNC , New York Crimes or Washington Compost is selling. ( All owned and controlled by Billionaires )
E Long Jr
April 28, 2022 @ 6:46 am
Don’t forget Faux news, I mean FOX “News”.
Fernando
April 27, 2022 @ 8:01 pm
Keep reading the entire article it’s fake news!
89. B is almost half Elon’s fortune.
😯 that was a good one 😂👍
Gary Henrichon
April 27, 2022 @ 8:12 pm
Definitely new country is rock not country it’s rock concert
Fred
April 27, 2022 @ 9:31 pm
It’s evolved,ypu haven’t. You can5 buy all that..someone actually believes it to
Jo
April 27, 2022 @ 11:04 pm
Evolve Fred?? Like genders? Your an idiot!
Victor Crosier
April 28, 2022 @ 7:35 am
Or rap
James Cosby
April 28, 2022 @ 3:41 am
And I’m proud to be an American and knowing that I’m free. And I’ll stand up next to you.
Stonewall Jack
April 28, 2022 @ 4:49 am
The fact you need to point out the most hyperbolic satire is “fake news” only terrifies me half as much as the people that thumbed it up. But let’s be honest, after “Old Town Road” and country music being manipulated by the usual suspects in media, it could use a good ol’ saving right about now
Gabriel
April 27, 2022 @ 9:04 pm
Why change it? I guess he wants it back to the old banjo and pick💀
Chloe bishop
April 28, 2022 @ 4:19 am
That would be so refreshing.
Steve Munoz
April 28, 2022 @ 5:26 am
Too late Bro…I already own it! I changed Country Music Forever. STEEVO
KILLER COUNTRY BAND
Fan
April 28, 2022 @ 5:33 am
Definitely good idea. Sounds fake though
Don stark
April 28, 2022 @ 7:05 am
Ralph Emery is the one that ruined country music with his pop goes the country stupid idea everyone thought they was a country singer and wasn’t
Dallas Wayne
April 26, 2022 @ 11:31 am
Trigger, this is the best thing on the internet today! Laughing my ass off. Well played, Sir…Well played!
Trigger
April 26, 2022 @ 12:25 pm
Hey everybody, Dallas Wayne has a new album out, “Coldwater, Tennessee,” check it out!
John Dixon
April 27, 2022 @ 1:59 pm
That is completely ignorant. Thanks for wasting bandwidth.
AtLBatman
April 27, 2022 @ 5:38 pm
I use to work at a Kenny Roger’s Roasters Chicken just south of Atlanta Ga. I was 16 years old. That was the best chicken ever. What I would give to eat that chicken again.
Brown widow
April 27, 2022 @ 6:33 pm
I stayed at the holiday inn
Stonewall Jack
April 28, 2022 @ 4:51 am
Darn right. That Kenny knew three things.
1)When to hold them
2) When to fold them
3) How to make a succulently delicious bird. How is it possible that Mana from heaven chicken joint went out of business
Brian B
April 27, 2022 @ 2:06 pm
This guy has been an active performer for over 30 years now, and I follow country music fairly well. So, how come I have never even heard of him until now. Even though I have heard of a few others who never really had chart success, such as the late Sleepy LaBeef.
Mark
April 27, 2022 @ 4:34 pm
What a joke. You cannot buy a genre of music.
This is an article for people like Trumpsters…….
GULLIBLE! Y’ALL
Dion eberts
April 27, 2022 @ 5:10 pm
As a proud trumpster I’m happy to see that a libtard like yourself can actually recognize a joke.
Darrin
April 27, 2022 @ 5:19 pm
Another idiot. Trump has nothing to do with this article. Democrates are and all ways have been the problem. Were one bomb away from world war 3. Trump didn’t do that either. Were headed for another recession. Trump didn’t do that. Has is $5 agallon. Food is crazy high. Trump did none of it. You figure it out.
Trigger
April 27, 2022 @ 5:36 pm
Folks, let’s please not get too deep into politics in our discussion. Thanks!
Joe
April 27, 2022 @ 6:04 pm
You can’t even see your being pranked, idiot! BTW y’all is a SPOKEN phrase not a written one. Again, IDIOT!
Kittnz
April 28, 2022 @ 10:15 am
Hahaha I see a lot of Lefty Tards in here. Geez give that up. I thought it was funny till I see these types of comments. turdtard
RICK WARD
April 27, 2022 @ 8:01 pm
Some of the best news I’ve heard in a long time he is exactly right country music needs steel guitar fiddles twang accent it comes from the heart and from country people
Carol Ann Booher
April 28, 2022 @ 2:47 am
HAHA. It is amazing how many make stupid comments because they don’t bother to read the article. Lol
R Bolstrum
April 28, 2022 @ 2:55 am
I despise E Musk. just another billionnaire jerk.
The world isnt worth living in because of people like him
SO WHAT
April 28, 2022 @ 5:43 am
The irony…an immigrant saving American country music…and a foreign nation Ukraine is saving American democracy….THANK YOU FOREIGNERS!!!
Matt Butterfield
April 29, 2022 @ 5:05 am
Old country music, new country music it’s all great, everyone is great. Except FGL there assholes
Wayne Capps
April 28, 2022 @ 7:02 am
Great music there from Dallas Wayne.
I also listen to his radio show on
Willies Roadhouse.
NOW THAT’S REAL COUNTRY MUSIC…!
Di Harris
April 26, 2022 @ 12:33 pm
: D Dallas freaking rocks!
Love he, and Paula Nelson
Sondra
April 27, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
I got all puffed up thinking about the amount of press he would be controlling then I read some of the comments. I’m still laughing at myself.
Stonewall Jack
April 28, 2022 @ 4:54 am
You got that right Sondra. As masterfull as this article was, just good old fashioned satire in the vein of Mark Twain, most of these comments had me both weeping for humanity while also laughing. Got to give it to the author though, he made us laugh and kicked a hornets nest of not too bright bulbs
Jim robertsy
April 27, 2022 @ 3:02 pm
Yes à croc à Bull
David Deeds
April 27, 2022 @ 4:24 pm
It would be a great thing if it was true but we will have to keep listening to the new bullshit so called crap country noise.
Diesel Dave
April 27, 2022 @ 4:57 pm
Wish I could buy all Rap, then burn that shit while Musk Country Singers playing in backround
None
April 27, 2022 @ 7:25 pm
Not happening! Just made your kids emulate it!
Batman
April 27, 2022 @ 9:12 pm
Hey D sell dave. Buy yourself a ticket to a rave. Eat a psiljcybiniss mushroom, a hit of acid and more dmt than a horse should consume. Get knocked out to the techno remix of a rundmc song wake up at a dmx concert as they all sing along. Whats my my name slim shady or the motherfucking dog. It doesnt matter this isnt your simple ass sad lost my wog and my dife country song. I think the problem you have with rap dick selling dave is. This shit isnt all dumbed down like country is for the masses. Like you cant stand rap, i cant stand you bunch of fat lazy inbreed dumbfucks
Mike Moses
April 28, 2022 @ 12:26 am
I wish the Rap group Fat Boys started singing old Elvis tracks only did with tons of bass and mumbled like the trap music kids do . Lmao !!!! Then remix it all chopped and screwed by DJ Skrillx while Donald Fuggin Trump smacked Mr Biden on the arse calling him Yankee Doodle …….oh with a feather in his ….. Lmao.. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha lol lol… goodnight God Bless …..
NightKind
April 28, 2022 @ 2:55 am
Country and rap actually have A LOT in common. Especially when you study the history- they were both born out of communities who felt their voices had not be heard up to that point. Central to both is class struggle.
*Just everyday people singing about their everyday experiences!*
Obviously both genres are imperfect (not to equivocate), and tend to be somewhat polarizing. As a student of history, I find it so interesting and beautiful to examine the cultural overlap.
Sadie
April 28, 2022 @ 4:43 am
Ohhhhh! I was so excited when I thought it was true! That he had bought all country music out!?!? Wouldn’t that have been awesome? To bring it back to “ the real thing”!!!
Joecephus
April 26, 2022 @ 11:36 am
This is hilarious. I loved Kenny Rogers Roasters BTW, I never worked there but a bunch of my friends worked at the location in my area.
John Knight
April 27, 2022 @ 4:38 pm
Amen. It’s about time we go back to real country. The junk they call country today is a slap in the face to the past greats. Iam really disappointed in lack of guts our past stars have lacking.
Marc
April 26, 2022 @ 11:46 am
You suck Trigger…..deserves a 5 out of 5. Nicely played sir.
BETTY ECHOLS
April 27, 2022 @ 8:17 am
Wow 👌
Dave
April 28, 2022 @ 4:21 am
Would some of you people please quit correcting people and enjoy the kick ..people that are always correcting people their like a horrid brown cloud and people like that normally have to clean up their own backyard first and set priorities straight with integrity of course good day people and
have a stupendous day
(Still) The Ghost Of OlaR
April 26, 2022 @ 11:51 am
As long as he fires all the executives & vice presidents of this & that of every Nashtrash label…& erases the majority of mainstream “country” music released in the last 20 years…well…Team Elon (…& i can’t stand the guy).
Di Harris
April 26, 2022 @ 11:57 am
: D Trig, Trig, Trig …
Stephen Qayson
April 27, 2022 @ 6:17 am
9pm..
Well scooped me up, hook, line and sinker…
Ray Horne
April 27, 2022 @ 6:59 pm
Charley Pride was a great Favorite of mine along with Alan Jackson. Both men’s music is real Country. This is very much a positive move for American Culture.
Kasey Couch
April 27, 2022 @ 8:02 pm
My uncle gene picked steel guitar for charley pride for years… such a nice guy….. 😃😃
Jo
April 27, 2022 @ 11:10 pm
My dad played with him in Helena, Mont 🥰
Mike Moses
April 28, 2022 @ 12:28 am
Kiss an angel goodmornig
David
April 28, 2022 @ 12:11 pm
Judging from the title, I thought “That had better be clickbait.” That and “Since when did news websites of any kind republish from The Onion?” Thank God for the damn disclaimer near the end saying that the article—title and all—was —to quote therefrom—“bullshit,” except for the part about a video of Elon Musk singing a Johnny Cash song on a certain social media website.
J
April 26, 2022 @ 12:05 pm
Haaaaaaaaaaa
Joshua Scott Hotchkin
April 26, 2022 @ 12:12 pm
Those songs we been joking about for a few years now, about a man’s self-driving truck leaving him, well you can bet those are coming.
Hey, with the last name Haggerty, I get it.
April 26, 2022 @ 1:25 pm
We need this to happen ASAP.
Melinda
April 27, 2022 @ 9:45 am
I have been saying for years that “Country” music hasn’t been TRULY country in MAANNY YEARS!! It would be nice to see what change will occur. I think he has good & well intentions & personally, I’m excited!! I don’t understand why people say they don’t like this gentleman when they don’t even REALLY KNOW him.
Rapscallion
April 27, 2022 @ 10:43 am
Melinda…you seem like a very kind and loving woman, but did you really read the whole article?
Like the part where he said the article was total bull**it?
Melinda
May 1, 2022 @ 2:57 pm
Aww..thank you! Obviously, i didnt! LMAO…a little embarrassed? Noooooo, not me! (hiding under rock) hahaha
Paul Kagourtine
April 27, 2022 @ 5:41 pm
Hi Melinda, not sure if you read the whole article, but it was all a joke, Mr. Musk didn’t actually “buy” country music, hence why “Hey, with the last name Haggerty, I get it.” said that this needs to happen “as soon as possible”. Have a wonderful rest-of-your-day.
Melinda
May 1, 2022 @ 3:04 pm
LoL..I see that now..hahaha!!!…I guess I actually should have known better! I have to say, I do appreciate seeing that there are still descent and kind people still in this world like you and the other individual, “rapscallion”. Usually people are so quick to just make fun of & be unkind, but you guys were very kind and factual w/your response to my comment. I’m grateful to see that. I hope you guys have a great day and be blessed!
Jerry
April 26, 2022 @ 1:33 pm
This satire is awesome. I cannot stop laughing (and the last explanatory paragraph wasn’t actually necessary; it was, sadly, self-evident).
The Tallman
April 26, 2022 @ 1:52 pm
Trig I’ll take a hit off whatever you’re smoking today cause you and Elon are getting some damn fine kine! Love a satirical interlude and perhaps the comment zealots can smile smile smile😎
Carla
April 26, 2022 @ 1:53 pm
Haha! Awesome. I wanna know how much you’d sell SCM for if he came knocking? Everyone has their price, right?
Hank3fan86
April 26, 2022 @ 2:00 pm
🤣🤣🤣….Trigger you had my hopes up for about a minute.
Roberto Trevizan
April 26, 2022 @ 2:46 pm
Haha 😂 Amazing!
Sheer Gold Article! But I don’t see as a impossible thing.
Someone can buy major streaming or Radio and put great country music back on spotlight. Really sad to see all this awards events without Alan, George Strait and other that we follow.
Jake Cutter
April 26, 2022 @ 3:07 pm
“You could secretly ban actual country music…secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until AFTER the Luke Bryan becomes a millionaire”
https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1518787650815201281?s=20
Eric
April 26, 2022 @ 4:11 pm
The world won’t change for the better until they agree to join my cult, err movement: Modern Amish – no new technology after 1999.
Vern Wimmer
April 26, 2022 @ 8:01 pm
If he wants to finance it via a “Go Fund Me” -type account then I’m in for a few bucks. Start with saving a record shop in Nashville and making it a temple.
Nan
April 26, 2022 @ 10:38 pm
As an avid country music fan it would be nice to see it happen, purely to see what he would do with all the crap coming out of Nashville
Nita
April 28, 2022 @ 11:14 am
That Chris Stapleton isn’t too bad though.
Rob Quin
April 27, 2022 @ 1:20 am
This guy has waaaaaay too much money than me knows what to do with it ! Instead of spending it on all this garbage why doesn’t he do something for humanity and donate money to Ykraine to fight Russia, also to Veterans who come home and have no healthcare or homes ! Use your money wisely Musky fellow and for Meaningful Endeavors !
Deidre
April 27, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
You’ve heard of satire?
Jennifer Korell
April 27, 2022 @ 6:08 pm
Why not hold a concert to help the homeless and vets. That would be a start. And actually use money to pay for some homeless to buy a home.
Batman
April 27, 2022 @ 9:21 pm
Or do
The real right thing and help the dunbars protect themselves from Ukraine and a tyrannical USA. Just a thought. Insert the theme song from Reading Rainbow here
Fred Albrecht
April 27, 2022 @ 3:55 am
My first thought was ‘this is not April 1’
Lucas
April 27, 2022 @ 3:57 am
REPUBLICANS are dummies. Im sure Elon Musk will give yall the free speech you a craving and screaming about.
Ali
April 27, 2022 @ 1:09 pm
Freedom of speech is our right in America. You dummy. We already have it. And you my dear is why we have this demented idiot in office.
JR Qualley
April 27, 2022 @ 3:04 pm
Ali, Best thing I have read all day! I couldn’t agree with you more!!👍
Rc
April 28, 2022 @ 6:14 am
I am so glad I was born when both political parties were decent. I am also glad that I don’t have to be Democrat of today.
Shon Franklin
April 28, 2022 @ 8:59 am
Democrats are the dum assholes. They can’t do nor thank for themselves. They need the worthless government to do it for them! So that being said so called new country ( Luke Bryan) sucks and should be pushed out. George Jones and many others from his year’s are real country. There is a few like Jamey Johnson, Chris Stapleton. To all my Republican friend’s out there do like me and decline any work or help for Dumacrats!
Mark Easter
April 27, 2022 @ 4:16 am
How funny that I read this!!! I posted this same joke on my IG and Facebook pages. Great minds think alike!!!
I’m still upset over the sale of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop.
Patrick
April 27, 2022 @ 4:22 am
Well sure. Looking for the “white knight to save our “culture” yet again. Desperate and sad. Musk benefited from his dad’s money made in apartheid south Africa with forced labor in his Emerald mines. His American money was started with billions in government hand outs of our money. Only in America would such a person be lionized.
Nobodysoldlady
April 27, 2022 @ 5:18 am
ROFL 🙂
Linda
April 27, 2022 @ 5:21 am
Love it
And he really got my Hope’s up bringing Roasters back. Loved that place. We need someone to reopen it. Come on Elin, at least reopen Roasters.
Xan
April 27, 2022 @ 6:14 am
I’ve read through this twice, I still can’t tell if it’s a joke or not.
Dog
April 27, 2022 @ 6:17 am
America is diverse in people and culture. Country music is a small tiny/ almost irrelevant piece of American Culture. Maybe it’s the bedrock of white rednecks but not American Culture. Hence why it will die off.
ChrisP
April 27, 2022 @ 10:20 am
Wow, quite the comment here, with several fun points. Your first point, that “America is diverse,” implies diversity in opinion and music choice. In predicting country music’s demise, you, at the same time, express a desire for a less diverse America. Say, for example, there are ten genres of music, of which country music is one. If country music “dies off,” there are now only ten genres of music (i.e., less diversity).
Second, the argument that country music is a “small tiny/almost irrelevant piece of American culture,” shows a misunderstanding of music and music history. A significant number of artists have been influenced by country music, many of whom have outsized influence in other genres. Ever hear of Elvis Presley? Ray Charles? The Eagles? All have drawn from country music (albeit no the modern trash that plays on the radio). Finally, “the bedrock of white rednecks but not American culture.” Your first comment, that “America is diverse in people and culture,” implies a place for all people, including “white rednecks.” Thus, if your first point is true and the white redneck continues to exist (which we have no reason to believe they won’t), then country music will inevitably be a part of American culture, although I disagree that it is purely the realm of white rednecks.
Pamela Stallworth
April 27, 2022 @ 11:15 am
Do you know where the term redneck comes from?? It’s from the farmers working out all day in the sun producing food and milk for America, and their necks got red from sunburn!
Sheila
April 27, 2022 @ 1:02 pm
I believe that’s only partially correct. I learned that it was the Scottish immigrants who would wear red bandanas around their necks/faces while they were out doing manual labor is where the term originated.
I do need to double check this term’s etymology again, and not solely rely on quick internet searches, as those normally yield plagiarized and re-shared inaccuracies.
celtobilly
April 27, 2022 @ 6:18 am
Take me back to Tesla?
RD
April 28, 2022 @ 5:29 pm
Livin’ on Tesla Time…
Chris
April 27, 2022 @ 6:30 am
Good satire makes one think. This made me think about the true value of art and music—all types (even bad country)—and how our lives are enriched, our mental health buoyed, and even physical health enhanced. The economic and non-monetary value is immense and far exceeds that of any social media company.
Teddy Grimstad
April 27, 2022 @ 6:30 am
Amazing good news ! I have been playing traditional Country Music for over 55 Years.
and I never stop loving the Real Country Music. I love Nashville but not the new ” TRASHVILLE NEWS “
S Larson
April 27, 2022 @ 6:33 am
Too bad this isn’t true…85-90% of the current stuff is just country rap, with the same chords and rhythms, just speeded up or down. You could probably play one on top of the other and have them match musically… The days of ballads, stories, or music of the Strait-Jackson-Brooks genre are over, apparently…
Joseph Massaro
April 27, 2022 @ 6:34 am
Dallas please go back to Texas
Gary J Dixon
April 27, 2022 @ 9:08 am
Well I’m not as huge of a fan or backer in Elon Musk’s corner but this has got to be total bullshit news with an announced purchase of Twitter for 44 billion ! Everything I’ve read about Elon and his brother as stories read by myself was that Elon resisted his father’s wealth and moved to Canada with family relations working various jobs prior to locating to Cali and working on an engineering degree from Stanford as well as another college prior to forming the earliest ground work to founding PayPal from where this computer software engineering genius struck a huge Yatzee,bingo ,and a TIC TAC TOE prior to having the desire to have the undeniable will to parlay two 15 million dollar bets on Tesla and SpaceX ! He was in the final lighting rounds with both Corporations and the rest of the story is historical in making him the wealthiest man on the planet ! I hope he has the power to bust Zuckerberg and Gates with a two team parlay that would absolutely make this world a better place to live ! FCK partnering with Google Elon ,your profile in having some class is surely above that move
Buck Wheat
April 27, 2022 @ 9:22 am
Patrick how much did you pay in taxes last year ???
Elon paid 11 billion in taxes.
boss
April 27, 2022 @ 9:46 am
man if this is part of my investments as well money that was others and it’s caused a big problem from broken rist to broken arm and people destroying my camaro and holding me back from my life
Barbara Kelley
April 27, 2022 @ 9:47 am
Wish this was true! If they play hotel key, one more time I’ll scream. It’s on every day and over night.The song, drunk and I wanna go home,sounds so pop! Do miss George Strait, and a lot of the others.
Tammy
April 27, 2022 @ 9:54 am
I just love this man. Please, let me be your first Tammy Wynette, by the way. You look great in that cowboy hat. 👍🇺🇸🥃🌟🏈🕺I want to work for you. A job would be great with Elon Musk. Plus, everyone buyhis stocks, I am .. 💰⚖️💲 everyone will make money of his stocks. True American. He works for America. Land of the free.
Barbara Kel
April 27, 2022 @ 10:01 am
Wish this was true! If they play hotel key, one more time I’ll scream. It’s on every day and over night.The song, drunk and I wanna go home,sounds so pop! Do miss George Strait, and a lot of the others. Oh, and what about Sam Hunt? Is that country?
Billie
April 27, 2022 @ 10:54 am
Really need Dance Halls. Miss all the good. Country singers .need more old time music George Strait. Like already stated
Kent
April 27, 2022 @ 10:58 am
Very, very funny. I would love to see him buy Hollywood and fire all of those losers.
Norbert Rossi
April 27, 2022 @ 11:14 am
While he is at it, maybe he could save farcical journalism by finding you a real job.
Ryan S
April 27, 2022 @ 11:20 am
Musk is a known troll so I think he’d just hand things over to Wheeler Walker Jr and let nature run it’s course. Might even be for the best. And Elon would get to complain about the FCC and a whole different SEC so he’d be happy. The man seems to live for money, jokes and fighting on the internet. I’m not sure which one is most important to him either. I guess if you’ve got it like that your biggest problem is keeping yourself entertained.
Webb Price
April 27, 2022 @ 11:32 am
Making twang a thang again! Whoopee!
Bob Shoulders
April 27, 2022 @ 12:02 pm
Well played sir👍👍
Chuck Johnaon
April 27, 2022 @ 12:28 pm
If only! I haven’t listened to country I’m years. Only because country music doesn’t exist anymore. Shame!
Jeff Dranetz
April 27, 2022 @ 12:32 pm
Greatest troll ever!!!!!! A bit late, April 1st was weeks ago.
Casey
April 27, 2022 @ 12:46 pm
Too bad country blows… 🤷
Woogeroo
April 27, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
The Roasters are still around Trigger, but yer going to have to travel.
Wendy
April 27, 2022 @ 1:35 pm
Oh good call me I have some big ideas to rejuvenate country music myself… Have you checked out Ryan Charles he’s really good
Dave
April 28, 2022 @ 4:27 am
Huh you mean the guy who sang the uban commercial back in the day ?!$#
GK
April 27, 2022 @ 2:13 pm
I want a piece of it too! I got a wad of one dollar bills in my pocket ready to roll the dice. Or. Best way to “save” country music is play more Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Hank Jr, Alan Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Charlie Crockett, George Jones…you get it. Or give me a shot at it. I got a mean electric rendition of Folsom Prison Blues!
Thanks for listening!
GK
Duane Dixon
April 27, 2022 @ 2:28 pm
So does this mean no more songs about Applebee’s?
J
April 27, 2022 @ 2:40 pm
Easy way to “fix” country music. Invest that much in education and people will stop listening to it.
Carl
April 27, 2022 @ 2:50 pm
You’re really stretching for material lately. Stick to what you’re good at and leave the satire and humour to the people who can actually pull it off (like the BabylonBee, etc.). Should change your site name to SCMTMZ.
Anyone who has a problem with Musk is just jealous that it took an African immigrant to show the big talking patriots to do what they can’t. Musk has done more for the battle to save free speech than any Republican political has in decades.
Love him or hate him, Musk is doing more to solve actual problems than you are. Of course, you’re busy “saving country music.” 🙄
Trigger
April 27, 2022 @ 2:58 pm
As long-time readers will verify, Saving Country Music has ALWAYS posted satire/humor/fake news stories as a vehicle for social commentary, and was doing it years before The Babylon Bee even existed. If anything, the site has gotten dramatically away from that over the years due to the concern of actual fake news. But don’t worry, I am still committed to posting reams of boring content for you and everyone else to ignore as well.
Mark
April 27, 2022 @ 4:41 pm
If you believe this crap than you are lost.
You mean colonial South African?
Trish
April 27, 2022 @ 3:33 pm
One best thing to happen nothing like pure County. It sad these days you have take all your clothes off to get there crowd going carzy.
Thomas Charles Hall
April 27, 2022 @ 4:23 pm
Elon …Bring back billy beer sir .thank u .im waiting here at the bar .
PaulWS
April 27, 2022 @ 4:10 pm
There’s no saving that redneck garbage. Eliminate it.
Michael Todd
April 27, 2022 @ 4:13 pm
Bring back jukeboxes with vinyl 45s.
TK
April 27, 2022 @ 4:26 pm
Hahaha….and next he will be buying all the hair weave, hair transplant opertions…because no one else knows better how it can change your life…
Mark
April 27, 2022 @ 4:42 pm
Not German, not a Nazi …..so your reference is DAF!
Speech is back, back again….speech is back tell your lib friends….speech is back speech.
Daniel
April 27, 2022 @ 5:13 pm
So stupid the shit people put up. Only a moron would believe or repost this
Confused
April 27, 2022 @ 5:28 pm
I thought it was the choice of a different organization as to what can be played on the radio. Thus the problem with the same stuff being played all the time. If it is the decision of the radio station then good for him.
But, does it make sense? Unless he makes all country that is created be done so the way he chooses, what will buying the music do?
Jason
April 27, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
What a no talent con artist and a joke of a profession you are to yourself, you lack talent so you become a con, wow you really suck at life, I’m sorry…I feel bad for you, you were the best swimmer to leave your father’s nutsack out of al those millions. I apologize I hope you have a better life!
PeeWeeHerman
April 27, 2022 @ 6:32 pm
FU
Jaimie
April 27, 2022 @ 6:35 pm
First reaction to reading this, “someone is jealous or scared they may be held accountable for their actions”. Takeaway from this article is that individuals and institutions all secretly dream of Mr. Elon Musk sweeping in to clean up their mess. Jumping up and down on the platforms screaming “pick me, pick me!”.
Excellent job Mr. Musk, congratulations. Push the (reset) button, cancel the cancel culture. I may actually use Twitter now.
Di Harris
April 27, 2022 @ 6:51 pm
: D
We have your back, Trig.
SCM Choir.
& our Dear friend from down under, OlaR
Allison
April 27, 2022 @ 7:12 pm
Dang it! I got my hopes up there for a minute 😂🤣 Very clever and entertaining article 👍
Di Harris
April 27, 2022 @ 7:18 pm
HOPTOWN – SOS,
Need an opinion.
Ann Wilson of Heart (of course) is going to be here with her band June 28th.
Marty Stuart is going to be here with the Superlatives, June 23rd.
Would be no contest if Nancy Wilson was going to be here with Ann.
But, alas, they are both touring with their own bands. Ugh.
Not going to buy a ticket for both shows.
If knew Connie was going to be with Marty, then no contest on that, either …
John Wayne
April 27, 2022 @ 7:30 pm
Even this is a joke Mr. Musk is correct if he actually said we need to clean up what we call country music. I’ve gone from Willie Nelson to Johnny Cash to others before them and enjoyed their music as much as Rascal Flatts and even Taylor Swift but the crap they politically vote on in the awards shows for country music is mostly crap! So I actually agree with the statement for change but really? Are the Oscars, The Grammys or the Emmys any better? There’s always a time for change but when we support some trash that only makes it to social media and not even to radio what are we thinking?
MarkM
April 27, 2022 @ 7:33 pm
🤣🤣🤣
Jim R.
April 27, 2022 @ 7:40 pm
Country music is gonna look like a tesla!
Fug-ley!
Rahat Mahmud
April 27, 2022 @ 7:42 pm
Country music may be going to be world music.
Another Chris
April 27, 2022 @ 7:56 pm
Maybe he’ll get rid of country rap with those click tracks 🤣
Jrod
April 27, 2022 @ 8:28 pm
Country music seems to need a more attentive audience before anything else
Charles
April 27, 2022 @ 8:49 pm
Lmao another butt hurt moron u guys need a pet to make you feel better bunch of pansy azzes.who cares at least certain people wont be banned for there beliefs I mean Twitter allowed Iran’s leader to be on but not trump or alot others we should all protect each other no matter what you say or beleive I wouldnt allow any oi ne to be done that way we should all listen to each other and just maybe we could learn something and not be so devided.
C
April 27, 2022 @ 9:17 pm
One good country artist is Marty Brown. He has so much good music and songs. He’s an excellent singer songwriter. Radio politics won’t play his music. Such a deserving country music artist.
Nick
April 27, 2022 @ 9:25 pm
The number of people in the comments that do not understand satire paints a very sad, and darkly humorous picture of America. The fact that you morons can vote scares the shit out of me. Smh.
Ash
April 27, 2022 @ 9:46 pm
Obviously it’s satire. But it’s stupid. It’s bs clickbait about the worst genre of music
Fred
April 27, 2022 @ 9:28 pm
So many dumbasses believe this here..lol omg so funny
ChrisP
April 27, 2022 @ 9:34 pm
Wow, Trigger, dare I say you found a topic that somehow pisses off more people than Jason Isbell?
Trigger
April 27, 2022 @ 9:38 pm
This was just supposed to be a stupid article on a niche website for core country fans to laugh at and move on. It’s now gone mega viral, and anyone and their mom is getting it served to them in their social media feeds. Some understand what to do when they see it. Some don’t.
Lynne Koko'o Pasi'on
April 27, 2022 @ 10:53 pm
That’s NOT funny 😤
ChrisP
April 28, 2022 @ 8:35 am
I, for one, think it’s hilarious, and I love reading all of the comments from those who don’t get it.
Eric Medina
April 27, 2022 @ 9:34 pm
He should buy Rap instead and just delete it… 😹😹😹😹
Ash
April 27, 2022 @ 9:43 pm
I hate country music and I hate bs clickbait. Eff off. I’ll never come back to this website.
Shadow Moses
April 27, 2022 @ 10:12 pm
I just came here for the comments….TY!!!!
Lynne Koko'o Pasion
April 27, 2022 @ 10:46 pm
OH PLEASE!!! IT DOESN’T NEED YOUR HELP
Pierre
April 27, 2022 @ 11:47 pm
Didn’t Ted Nugent buy out Muzak some years ago to put the entire genre to bed? If only this article were true. I am a rock and roll fan, but classic country is great and needs to be revitalized. Bring back the instrumentation, like Merle Haggard had. His concert I went to was the best music show I ever attended.
Wayne
April 28, 2022 @ 1:50 am
There is no country music. It’s pop music with a twang. Wayne
Blind Melon
April 28, 2022 @ 2:18 am
The Blues Brothers: “What kind of music do you usually have here?” asks Elwood. “Oh, we got both kinds,” answers the bartender. “We got Country and Western!”
2FarGone
April 28, 2022 @ 2:25 am
Something needs to be done because it seems that all the record executives as well as most of the so called artists have forgotten the roots or the heritage and history of actual country music. I believe what made country music so special,was that while the world was speeding bye in the fast lane to a unexpected future full of the unknown. You could listen to real country music and relive the past and enjoy just cruising through life instead of being cought up in the rat race. But anymore when you tune in to a country radio station you might as well just tune to another pop music station it’s all the same. Real True Country Music is Dead a thing of the past sad but true!
Robb
April 28, 2022 @ 2:43 am
I’d like to slit the author’s throat with a rusty soup can lid
Trigger
April 28, 2022 @ 7:33 am
Seems a bit excessive.
Shari Macdonald
April 28, 2022 @ 2:48 am
I just need ro hear more Chris Stapleton please!!
Brian
April 28, 2022 @ 5:41 am
Parker mccollum
Kurt cobain
April 28, 2022 @ 5:48 am
Parker mccollum is the starting point alongside George Strait, Aaron Lewis, and the original line up of artists pre-98.If you understand what I’m referring to then you experienced real country and not just this mashed up trash that’s the majority f what’s out there today off YouTube. No pop country no rap country just country!!!!! Just like it was intended no offense
KathyB
April 28, 2022 @ 6:18 am
What a waste of my time reading this article to find that it is ‘bullshit’. I wont waste anymore time on this publication. Nor should anyone else.
Travis
April 28, 2022 @ 6:21 am
What the heck happened over here yesterday!? I’ll have to come back and finish these comments when taking a break.
I’m surprised how many people thought this was real or interpreted this as click bait or something else. The lack of comprehension is pretty disturbing.
Vicie Duerr
April 28, 2022 @ 10:16 am
Travis, that’s what I said. So sad.
Larry Hutchinson
April 28, 2022 @ 6:31 am
Well that is just great fake BS. That makes me want to get out my ole Telecaster and start Twanging more and play real country music louder.
rarestock
April 28, 2022 @ 6:39 am
Oh if we could only solve a problem like the decline of country music with money. However, money being the root cause of this declination I’m not sure that it would yield the outcome of our pursuit. Even if we could pay off those pop stars trying to lure a loyal fan base by mis-appropriating the term country music to just disappear. Greed would ultimately return with a new face claiming to be the second coming only to be twisted and re-engineered by the record companies to be a water-down version of what we love, the proverbial Natty Light.
Alas the only way to save it is to support those musicians who keep the sound alive. And by sharing that music so others know it is out there.
Tricia Melzer-Swaydrak
April 28, 2022 @ 8:02 am
Why doesn’t Jerry Seinfeld or “Kramer” resurrect Kenny Rogers Roasters?
Bobby Darren
April 28, 2022 @ 8:28 am
Most people and so called singers and players of today don’t have the slightest idea of what real real country music is all about. Their all lost and and live on planet Mars along with the Nashville industry of today. Wake up……. Go back 60 years or more and learn something……….
Merri.
April 28, 2022 @ 9:08 am
Sounds like that Ole good boy “Make America Great Again” the world has changed and
Music…all music will and had changed too. You can’t get that back. Just because you got billions you waste it on bringing back original country music? How about feeding children who have no homes or food to eat in America and around the world. No one will remember you for this…but God and the world remember those who gave to the poor and needy. Music is nothing when you are homeless and hungry. Spend billions of your money on fixing America’s homelessness..
M. Lynn Kimbell
April 28, 2022 @ 11:34 am
I truly concur ❤️🙏 I’m 72+ and have seen a lot of things come and go; however, good Country and good Hymns will always have a place in time and earth. We truly need to enjoy what little time we have on our fading EARTH! ❤️🙏🌈
Odaal
April 28, 2022 @ 9:42 am
There hasn’t been a country song since 1973.
Vicie Duerr
April 28, 2022 @ 10:13 am
The responses here (not all) explain how we wound up with Biden. Gullible and foolish. Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.
Jim
April 28, 2022 @ 10:20 am
If only
Buddy leeson
April 28, 2022 @ 10:29 am
Sorry but I think you need to rethink what you are doing because no one has that much money and I think you are over reaching your capital gains
I
April 28, 2022 @ 10:42 am
If this is fake , why is it on my feed! Why does it even appear on the Google feed. Google get fake news off my feed. No one can fix country music, despite my agreement.