A Review of Oliver Anthony's Viral Hit "Rich Men North of Richmond"

by Ratio Bradbornius

Screen grab from Oliver Anthony’s video for ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’

[The following is Nevermore’s Ratio Bradbornius review of the viral hit song ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’. You can find Ratio’s Substack here. Ratio writes an impassioned review, and while this song—and review—certainly resonate with me, I’m still a little more cautious and cynical. Conservative commentators like Matt Walsh called it “the protest song of our generation.” Others are saying they’re surprised Oliver Anthony hasn’t been “killed off” yet because he is speaking the truth—which is completely absurd to me. There is an abundance of ‘truth-telling’ artists out there that are not mainstream and who say far more controversial things, and they are still very much alive and still making music. Meanwhile others are convinced this song will propel us into a revolution of some kind. That’s the part I find most depressing. This song will likely fade away into irrelevance in a couple of weeks, and we will continue to struggle, and toil, and fight for scraps. Because we the people are still expecting someone else to come and save us. But that’s just not going to happen. And sooner or later, we’re going to have to do something about it and learn how to save ourselves. But I’m being cynical again. Read on if you want to feel inspired by Ratio’s words.]

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A Review of Oliver Anthony's Viral Hit "Rich Men North of Richmond"

What the fuck did you do to destroy evil in 2023?

I can tell you what Oliver Anthony did.

This man struck a nerve. This man tapped into a lightning bolt of populist energy that has been feeding off the static electricity generated from the collective suffering of the masses trapped under the inverted pyramid of the globalist criminal kid fuckers.

This is a William Wallace moment.

After all, the song brings up some good points about what it is like to toil in the globalist system in a heartfelt and straightforward way only a pleb can understand. That is practically all of us by the way. If you didn’t get chills or didn’t tear up a little when listening to this, then you are a psychopath. This is one of the most relatable songs to come out in a long time, but it may be more than that.

This is the song version of sneaking up behind the globalists and shanking them in between the fourth and fifth rib. Is it going to be enough to make them bleed out and put them on life support? That remains to be seen.

Fuck, is this dude the reincarnation of Johnny Cash? But with a little more punk rock delivery?

It’s like he took Mumford and Sons, and curb stomped those little mofos.

I have not listened to all the reactions because I didn’t want it to cloud my thoughts. I did hear/read a couple reviews and none of them so much as mentioned the most important part of the entire song.

This man put into a song Epstein Island and now it’s gone viral.

The part about “paying attention to minors on an island somewhere”. Did you catch that? Give it another listen.

I’m sure this guy was a nobody before this and the fact that this is the song to snap everyone’s neck to pay attention to it and it contains such a brave statement then I’m not sure if you ever realize what has been unleashed here. Do you know what this means?

A leader goes first and takes the heat.

This man stood up in front of the whole damn Earth and said it was OK to point out pedophiles. Now, he did it in a roundabout and gentle way, but he did it. And that takes some serious balls. And the fact that in a few days this song is growing in popularity like a comet gathering matter, strength and steam on its journey through the solar system means that something is being born here. There will be those who come after Oliver Anthony that will try to capture that same energy that he did.

Courage is contagious.

He has picked the lock to the side door of globalist gaslighting about how great the economy is, put in a rock to prop it open, texted his friends to flash mob these motherfuckers. He doesn’t know who else is coming but you can bet your balls (or ovaries) that this party is for everyone and they comin’.

It ain’t inner city thugs mobbing on a gouache store. This man now represents the backbone of western civilization. The people that get up at 5am on a Sunday morning and report to their second or third job to not only make a way for themselves but to keep our society chugging along. Not the economy, but the society. Hence bullshit pay. The kind of people that are too proud to take a handout from the government and that would rather go without than be a beggar. It is simple manners to NOT take what you haven’t earned. That is what someone is reduced to when they are on welfare. People that would rather do what is hard or what is right than what is expedient – to quote Jordan Peterson.

Look, put aside your globalist assigned shackles of left and right for a second. And besides, those of you on the left had your chance. You fought the man and lost. Everything you fought for is now globalist government policy. So don’t sit there and tell me you’re a pleb.

A story about people that got everything handed to them is lame. A story where people overcome a great evil and destroyed a demon in an epic battle where good wins in the end is compelling as fuck.

That is where we are right now in human history.

You get rewarded for being a collectivist boot licker peddling the wares of the rich and powerful and projecting their recycled pathologically empty corporate life as they tell you they can save the world that don’t need saving if you just cough up a few more tax dollars so they can give no bid contracts to their buddies. Yeah, they’ll save you alright.

Don’t you dare stick up for them.

Look at your paystub for a minute. Give it a good long hard look and think for a minute about how long you have been paying and how much. You might be alright but those further down the economic ladder are losing patience. And all dams break eventually, it just takes the right circumstances.

This song represents a spark to the natural gas leak of freedom the globalists don’t want us to know that is there but is inevitably always going to blow. A let them eat cake moment is right around the corner.

The backbone of western civilization has had it. This is why songs like this get written. Let’s be happy it is coming out in art right now. This can be the type of art that turns the tide.

Look, you can disagree with this song and say it’s this or that but the people that like it won’t hear you.

It speaks to the millions of people that are drowning from globalist economic policy. It may be possible people get in their own way so much they will never know success. I don’t know. But the sentiment in this song needs to be something the globalists pay attention to.

They won’t.

And it is going to be fucking spectacular when it backfires in their stupid pedophile criminal faces as they call it far right, -phobes of all types, defame and try to destroy it. Fewer and fewer people are listening to the authorities these days.

From this guy’s perspective they’ve taken all his extra money, they have called him a racist and a domestic terrorist. He’s got nothing left but to sing a song out in the woods with his dogs about the woes of humanity. When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it. This song captures that perfectly.

We’re at that moment in history. It is so delicious. I’m getting my popcorn ready to watch and pray for the globalists to lose everything. All they had to do was share. Now they are going to watch it all fade away.

The question is: How many segments of society feel like this guy does? Look for unrelated groups in society to relate to this and rally around it.

The powder keg of populism is getting a little close to the flame of freedom. It’s been snatched from the left as the right now is belting out anthems the left can only dream of.

If the globalists are just about to fall off a cliff and all it would take is a feather to drop on them then let this song be the feather.