JOHN RICH on Maren Morris vs. Brittany Aldean & Country Music Going WOKE

Amala Ekpunobi

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Get my latest & EXCLUSIVE content: https://www.prageru.com/series/unapologetic?utm_source=show Country music legend John Rich joins me for a discussion about wokeness infiltrating his industry, the recent controversy between Brittany Aldean and Maren Morris, and why audiences are resonating with artists who are unapologetic about their views in the face of constant pressure to conform to the mainstream narrative.

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0:00.0	Young Apollo with the best!
0:07.0	Hi everybody and welcome to Unapologetic.
0:17.8	You know we love bringing on guests in the show and today we have a particularly special
0:22.3	one who's here to talk about something that is creeping into an industry that you probably
0:26.3	wouldn't expect, wokeness to be creeping into.
0:29.7	He is a country music star and just a firecracker and he is John Rich.
0:35.7	John Rich, thank you so much for being on the show.
0:38.1	You bet, happy to join you.
0:39.4	This is very cool.
0:40.4	Your set is awesome by the way.
0:41.7	Love your set.
0:42.7	Thank you so much.
0:44.2	I got to say, Fake ID is one of the best country songs ever written and I'm banging that
0:49.8	in my car at least once a week so thank you for that.
0:52.8	We're a bird that that song has had like a resurgence.
0:56.4	It's got a whole dance to it.
0:58.2	Take talk of all that.
0:59.8	Yeah.
1:00.8	Yeah.
1:01.8	Yeah.
1:02.8	They threw it in the newest creation of Footloose and I think that really sparked just a
1:07.3	resurgence of that song so thank you so much for creating it.
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