rant · moment 20 of 21
Connecticut Golf Guys Larping as Country Fans
from Tech People & Celebrating Nothing | The Tim Dillon Show #423 · #423
6 min
Tim riffs on wealthy white Northeastern golfers suddenly performing country music fandom now that it's the one culture that 'welcomes whitey,' contrasting real country artists like George Strait and Dolly Parton with the inauthenticity of guys leaving golf courses to blast country music.
- White people adopted country music as the only cultural space that welcomed them during the woke years.
- Nothing worse than watching a guy who played tennis all day line dancing at a country-western bar.
- Country music became the refuge because other cultural spaces explicitly rejected white people as demons.
- Metrosexual country stars like those Bo Burnham mocked represent something fundamentally weird about modern white culture.
- Californians pretending to be cowboys and ranchers in Malibu is absurd—there are no actual cowboys in California.
- Country music is genuinely American with talented people, but it's become the only option alongside corporate pop when you want instruments and soul.
- Friends leaving the golf course to blast country music signals something worth examining about what's happening culturally.
- Tim finds inauthenticity genuinely offensive, while most people market it successfully for profit.
- Replacing authentic culture with corporate monoculture leaves people with no identity, driving them to grasp at inauthentic versions of other people's traditions.
country musicMartina McBrideGeorge StraitJames McMurtryToby KeithLoretta LynnBo BurnhamDolly Parton