Since countering Aldean’s claim the video only contains “real news footage,” Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.

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    1 year ago

    Just because it’s terrible doesn’t mean it isn’t catchy lol. And I’m specifically referring to the genre, because Jason Aldean is racist as fuck. He is an objectively bad artist. Luke Combs is dope.

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      I’ve been trying to comb through (haha) why I’m so annoyed with the fact that Luke Combs just released a cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car. At first blush I just thought “God damn, what an appropriating prick.” I’ve always thought of it as kind of a feminist song, and since Tracy is Black, as an intersectional song. And here is some rich white country star singing it in a less good way and making mountains more money than she ever made on it.

      Intellectually, I know that there are instances where men are heavily burdened by becoming default caregivers of ailing parents, but it falls on women much more often.

      I realized it is a bit sexist of me that it rubs me the wrong way for a man to complain about financially supporting his female partner who refuses to work, and it feels like an empowering feminist notion when a woman has had enough of the same and moves out on her own because of it. I guess that’s a pretty backwards thinking on my part.

      But also, when he sings, he sounds like he’s constipated and trying to poop.

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        1 year ago

        I completely understand what you’re saying, but Tracy seems to disagree with you

        Also, to each their own, but i think combs is talented af.

        And I dont think this really counts as appropriating, since artists cover each other all the time, and he would have had to pay royalties.

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        It bothers me that the original is much better and his just sounds lifeless and generic af. Like the videos of taking pitch correction to a bunch of classics and making them dull and ruined.