I still love how Weird Al called out Kid Rock's video by telling his fans "As much as I know you love my parody videos, I did not make the Kid Rock video". Damned by faint praise.
Weird Al is the coolest. Every time I think it wouldn't be possible to love him more, he says or does something even more awesome. Such a hilarious and wholesome guy!
I mean, if you're not paying attention to someone it's easy to be disappointed when they pop up on your radar and suck... and it's very easy to lose track of Kid Rock...
@@gorillaguerillaDK The hell did Mr. T and Drew Carey do?? And all I remember about Ricky Gervais is...maybe I wanna say made a Tweet one time pushing back on something on an aspect of something progressive, but I know none of the details and it's all super fuzzy. What am I missing?
This reminds me of the boomers at some protest, I think in Washington. In a complete lack of media critique (and self-awareness) they were blasting Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine dancing in support of Donald Trump and waving thin blue line flags. Literally raging on behalf of the machine. The song is explicitly anti-police.
A lot of right wingers _love_ Rage Against the Machine. While I've always preferred Tom Morello's solo work to Rage, it has always baffled me to hear people like Paul Ryan express their love for them.
Yeah I feel like that's a common thread among conservatives, especially the older ones... Getting behind a certain song that they don't understand whatsoever, and is in fact against their beliefs in every way. Another great example is all the highly religious/Christian people who loved that "Take Me to Church" song because all they heard was "Take Me to Church," while completely ignoring all of the other lyrics which are definitely not pro-christian, pro-religion, or pro-church. In fact, the song is the exact opposite of that.
yes, because they specifically mean "don't tell _me_ how to live" They never said anything about telling others how to live. In fact, if you prevent them from commanding and dictating how others live, you're taking away _their_ freedom
Their favorite hobby is pretending that the whole world is against them for being “against the status quo” when everything about them and how they tend to live their lives upholds the status quo. The way they react to the slightest bit of change or progress that benefits marginalized groups is insane. They would be perfectly fine with the government persecuting the people they don’t like. That’s why they screamed about their lack of freedoms during covid lockdowns but shrug their shoulders when people bring up all of the books being banned in florida because that’s different, it’s to “protect the children”. Protecting kids from misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc…too much government control but protecting them from the word “gay”? A okay 👌🏽
"Hey we want the power to strip away your rights via government power, like abortion, marriage, Healthcare decisions involving your own children and we are the party of small government with a lower case S. Stay out of our personal lives libcucks."
The far-right: "We are the real free thinkers in this country, not those sheeple on the left." A billionaire: "Vote for my best interests, peasants." The far-right: "Sir, yes, sir!" Great video, Leon! Thank you.
Imagine making a song about how offended people are while expressing constant offense at people not agreeing with your political opinions. Conservative talking points 101 right there.
Seriously. For a group that touts insensitivity as much as reactionary conservatives, they have awfully thin skin. It's projection. They see themselves and they're ashamed.
I’m on the older end of the “millennial” designation (born Jan. 1986), and I don’t even remember hearing about the younger kids in my school getting so-called “participation trophies”. I’m curious as to whether they actually exist. I’ve never even seen a photo of one. I’ve seen political cartoons, memes, and the like. Never anything genuine. I’m not saying they don’t exist, because I’m sure they do. They just don’t seem to be even remotely as common as some people claim. Which is very interesting if you consider that from a psychoanalytical perspective 🤔
Love the title. Kid Rock is truly the anti-Tom Morello: ignorant where Tom is educated, racist where Tom is not, regressive where Tom is progressive, and filled with hateful anger when Morello has the righteous anger of creation.
And a poser ("Southern blue-collar" from a white-collar Michigan family) who has no idea what the fuck he's talking about, whereas Tom Morello has made no illusions about the fact that he not only had an Ivy league education but that it's in political science (thus he absolutely knows what he's talking about).
... They never think "Maybe it's not everyone else, maybe I'm a real assh0le." Because that's what they want to be. They want to treat people like crap _and get away with it._
His name is pretty ironic too. He's a 50 year old man, and he definitely does not rock. Probably time for a Prince/Symbol style name change. Maybe just a picture of a guy smoking on the toilet or something.
This video is my first exposure to Kid Rock, since about 1996. Not sure if it's reassuring to know that he hasn't changed. Now back to not having him in my life at all.
He was a rich kid who's rich family got him into music. He was a vanilla ice wannabe in his late teens and changed his persona many times until the southern rock rap thing stuck. He's a phoney.
nah, he's worse than a bullied kid. he was a rich kid who was making rap albums. He hung out with Too Short and was screaming about being a pimp for a decade before he went all out fake redneck.
calling us a generations of "p*****" while also treating us like terrorists is really funny. If we're so weak why not just stop us? What? Too scarred that we'll actually change something. It's their whole thing.
From Umberto Eco's 1995 piece "Ur-fascism": "the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
The truth is we vastly out number them and they know that. We are more educated. We are more caring and the vast majority of the rest of the world is on our side. Beau of the Fifth Column said something that really stuck with me. I'll be paraphrasing because my memory isn't exact. But he was talking about conservatism and progressivism and the futility of one side. Conservatives seek to conserve an ideological dogma from the past and refuse to move in to the future. Progressives only want progress. To keep pushing forward to a better place in society for all. Conserving the past is futile essentially because nothing can stop progress. They are fighting a losing battle and that's just reality. I don't think we should expect that old way to just die silently in the night though.
@@nerdjournal Another big fan of Beau, here. He's actually the only person i watch every video from. Anyway, he has also repeatedly pointed out that on a long enough time line, the progressive side always wins and the pendulum always swings towards (social) justice. That's part of why they're fighting so hard now, because even the dimmest of them understands this on some level. That also means its up to the rest of us (especially those of us who aren't marginalized ourselves but are allies of those who are, since we're most likely to be listened to by many) to keep pushing back, keep fighting harder, and to not rest on any laurels.
The fact that the "trans panic" defense is something, that even needs to be prohibited is just so sad. In a sane world you wouldn't need to stop people from using this defense, because no judge would take them sirious if they did.
Uhlersoth77 scapegoating vulnerable ppl and making their pathetic followers feel good about themselves by hurting others have been deliberate tools of power hungry, elitist/rich sociopaths since at least the 1930’s. And who in America today is a better target than transfolk, we’re even fewer in number, less understood by the public, and more voiceless than gay people, who were likewise to black people before them. Same dynamics as nazi Germany just with less pressure, if we had another Great Depression tho, things would intensify. The destiny of capitalism, consolidation of power in the hands of a few, and their perpetual games to manipulate the public to serve that cause.
He just casually lays out conservatism and reactionism, explains their modern forms and rising popularity and completely demolishes any foundation they were built on, while talking about Kid fucking Rock. Holy shit
The fact that the man tried to use the Second Amendment as a threat while miming like he was chicken-winging a 1700's blunderbuss is hysterical to me for some reason.
Not only that, but I'll also never understand why right wing garbage think they have a monopoly on gun ownership. That has *never* been true. Even ignoring history, I'm as anti right as they come and I still likely own more guns than this clown.
It's funnier considering muzzle loader weapons from the 19th century and older is not restricted, like why is Kid Rock evoking 2A for something that was never in trouble in the first place?
Early 2000s Creed was much worse than early 2000s Nickelback. All the songs the former gets rightfully mocked for all came from this time. That being said, Kid Rock is even worse.
@@toppersundquist Indeed. _Silver Side Up_ is actually good. I would even defend "If Everyone Cared," and that came years later. However, it seems like they stumbled upon a formula for making a hit single, and as Creed (see above comment) demonstrates, when you figure out a formula for hits, the quality drops as time goes on.
@@toppersundquist Curb, The State and Silver Side Up are all passable. Then it quickly shifts to 9 of the songs on any album being interchangeable and boring.
Kid Rock isn't SoAD or Deftones, that people don't even really want to put together with the rest of the Nu-Metal scene. Kid Rock isn't Linkin Park, that brought a different aesthetic and introspection to be considered the "respectable" nu-metal band Kid Rock isn't Slipknot, which still has somewhat of a public relevance thanks to a die-hard fanbase. Kid Rock isn't even Limp Bizkit, that outlived their overwhelming hatred by the public eye and are actually self-aware so now everybody plays cool with them. Kid Rock is just cringe.
I appreciate that you took the time to listen to this painful "song" and then do an analysis. I certainly don't have the strength for such activity, myself.
I wonder how many of today's kid rock fans know that he was on the Insane Clown Posse's first album and that ICP later saw what direction he was taking and started making fun of him in several of their songs.
@@megsley Juggalos need a You're Wrong About episode lol. They've often been pretty cool, all magnet jokes aside. (Also no, my comment not coming from personal taste; I'm a Ye Olde Alt Indeeee-Hipster + 3am Ancient Shook One)
ICP is based af and has always been the place for the weirdos. As weirdo-adjacent who grew up in Michigan, I have a lot of Juggalo friends and they have consistently been the kindest and most open people in my life. Not one of my Juggalo friends has ever hoarded their weed and they always have drinks. Idk what more you need tbh, they got it figured out.
Famous-ish. In the sense that most people wouldn’t call him an A-list celebrity, but his popularity with conservatives and the boomer crowd makes it so that we hear his name far more often than we need to.
@@nekovalley yep… and this boomer can’t say enough how much it sucks that so many of my generational cohorts have such reprehensible viewpoints and intentions… and such abysmal taste. Personally, I’ll take Lil Nas X (that boy *slaps*!) over any of those racist old has-beens (e.g. Kid Rock or Nugent) any damn day. At this point it’s the old farts I want off my lawn- the kids are alright. And there’s still a few of us old anarchists around!
Liistening to Joe Rogan trying to string together a barely coherent sentence is as grating as someone very slowly scraping their nails on a chalkboard.
It’s amazing how many people on the left defend Rogan. “hE’s JuSt aSkInG qUeStIOnS!” - no, he’s a proxy (and sometimes straight up) mouthpiece for all kinds of shitty, bad faith, reactionary viewpoints. Just because he occasionally has some tepid liberal or centrist on his show doesn’t somehow balance out the 95% of his content which is trotting out conspiracy theorists, misogynists, transphobes and other CHUDS (or parroting their talking points.
@@badsneakers917 I think a lot of people like him 'cuz weed man' and they are idiots. He is a first-rate moron. He is a 'fighter-guy', I guess. CHUD, Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. Have not seen that movie since it hit VHS. What does it mean in your sentence?
Kyle Kullinski and Krystal Ball are, I guess, still left wingers and still play defense for Rogan. Kyle is personally friends with him, and has a history of being a bit of a wuss when it comes to his friends saying/doing shitty things. Krystal is a just a grifter, so no surprise she touts Rogan.
Where do you live? This is the first time I'm hearing about this chucklefuck since... whenever his first album came out. But I don't listen to the radio and many of my friends either own independent record stores or spent years working in college radio, so I'm probably luckier than many. And definitely luckier than you. Regardless, I'm sorry, and I hope this fades from relevancy as fast as everything else he has ever done.
You're brilliant Mr renegade. I don't know of this Kid Rock, but you put a lot of things in a perspective for me to get on with my day, but also stop me and think. You remind me to not be a moron, or, try your best to not be a moron at least. Thank you
Leon, I can't express how much I respect your work. You've inspired me in how I approach information and how I articulate concepts, and each time you bring a perspective I never considered. Thank you for your time and effort, even on subjects like Kid Rock
I never knew a video about kid rock would have such a great definition of what reactionary means. I've heard the term probably 1000 times now and while understanding it I've never heard it put so elegantly and explained in context like you've done here.
Music is such a powerful tool, one that expresses the emotions of the artist in such a raw, honest way. It's really sad to see an artist like Kid Rock because it just shows how sincere he is about all this. I'm also deeply troubled by the masses of people who find that his music resonates with them. Music reflects life, and I'm sad that this is the life we're living.
I'm glad you ended up deciding to make this video. This is actually an excellent explanation of how reactionary movements are actually anti-equality. Thank you.
Kid rock grew up in a privileged household. His childhood home sold for millions. Meanwhile he tried to poormouth his way into some kind of working class cred by claiming to be "Straight out of the trailer" and releasing "Po Dunk" a glorification of a life he never lived. Kid Rock gets pissy when someone questions him about anything because, like his orange god, he grew up never being questioned or being denied anything. To not be on top by default is terrifying to him.
If Kid Rock wants to talk about absurd freak outs over being “easily offended,” we could discuss him divorcing Pamela Anderson for appearing in Borat. Of course none of this is sincere. Kid Rock is just cynically trying to capitalize off of angry “stop the steal” rubes, like Aaron Lewis was so successful at doing. His song was far from sincere as well.
Omg I laughed so hard when you went into his actual background 😂😂😂. For like 20 years I'm really thinking the dude grew up in a trailer. I didn't care enough to look but my goodness the contrast of KR's version vs reality is embarrassing. This like some Malibu's Most Wanted type of stuff.
Kid rock to me has always been the sound track to trashy shit like copper theft. Dude has an audience alright, but his audience has some "interesting characteristics."
After "Devil Without A Cause", he had a chance to move into the new millennium with the same musical momentum; to say that he blew it, well, that might be undershooting a little bit.
@@charlieboone1298 its so bad that the older I get, the more it seems like America has an "antimeritocracy" problem. It seems to me like financial and political success often have a NEGATIVE corration to someone's intelligence, integrity, and empathy.
@@iamjustkiwi I see this too. My suspicion is that the system rewards confidence, and nobody's confident like a malignant narcissist. So, we end up with institutions/corporations being run by a bunch of people incapable of seeing their own failures.
This is so well stated and really puts into context my feelings. I live in a very rural American area and often get lost in the barrage of people reciting these same tired lines. I'm going to have to revisit this one a lot so I can really better understand how to approach the conversation.
To quote Robert Christgau's review of Kid Rock's self-titled 2001 album, "Turned into Ted Nugent pretty quick, didn't he? Only who told him that meant not being funny?". Kid Rock is just cringe at this point, he's not Ted Nugent with those catchy guitar licks, he's not Limp Bizkit with their self-awareness, he's not Rage Against the Machine with their politics or even bland enough to be like RHCP. I find it fascinating that in his "Devil Without a Cause" album, his best, he used imagery about violence towards the police as a good thing, and now he's pretty much advocating for them. Cringe.
He'll run for some public office position after he gets enough praise and attention from the right. Dr. Oz is doing it right now. I think Mike Rowe is also going to do it.
Kid Rock came up breakdancing and opening act for run dmc in the late 80s early 90’s then was a rap/metal guy in the mid 90’s to a country star in the early 2000’s….he was an inner city rapper to a hill billy country music guy in the span of 30 years
You're so good at breaking this stuff down! You & Beau are such fantastic advocates for progressivism and anarchism, I really admire how you focus on conveying the message to people beyond those circles in such a simple and persuasive manner ✊🏴💖
You hit the nail on the head with the social media benefitting The Right. I'm a Leftist on Facebook sharing Bernie's posts, but constantly get Right-Wing pages suggested. Like sure, Facebook. I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter but pages called "Stop Commie Scum" would definitely interest me.
Your videos are so thoughtful and well researched. You have a way of taking what I've been thinking, but have had trouble expressing, painting the picture and then taking it a step further. Bravo
My parents would play his music literally every day in the car when I was a child. Telling it is that I don’t remember a single word of it, or even a tune. In fact, the only song I remember vaguely is the one where he speaks absolute gibberish nonsense (That doesn’t narrow it down, I know)
I still love how Weird Al called out Kid Rock's video by telling his fans "As much as I know you love my parody videos, I did not make the Kid Rock video". Damned by faint praise.
You know its bad when Weird Al is shittalking you. Dude is wicked nice.
I went to the comment section to make a joke about Weird Al not being able to do a parody on this song...
Weird Al is the coolest. Every time I think it wouldn't be possible to love him more, he says or does something even more awesome. Such a hilarious and wholesome guy!
That level of shade is immaculate.
I didn't think I could like Weird Al any more than I already do.
I don't understand how can anyone be disappointed with Kid Rock. That implies you had good expectations of Kid Rock.
I mean, if you're not paying attention to someone it's easy to be disappointed when they pop up on your radar and suck... and it's very easy to lose track of Kid Rock...
I only know him from a Simpsons episode 20 years ago, and based on that I would've thought he was pretty cool.
@@gorillaguerillaDK Don’t forget James Woods.
@@gorillaguerillaDK The hell did Mr. T and Drew Carey do?? And all I remember about Ricky Gervais is...maybe I wanna say made a Tweet one time pushing back on something on an aspect of something progressive, but I know none of the details and it's all super fuzzy. What am I missing?
@@michaelhaydenbell I'm also really puzzled, like what'd I miss about Mr. T???
Your ending line “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed” is prefect because Kid Rock has the mind of a child.
And the name
Unfortunate
The ending was hilarious. I want to buy Leon a beer or two or three or, hell, he can have all he wants.
Most conservatives are utterly childish in their beliefs
I mean he's not called Adult Rock
This reminds me of the boomers at some protest, I think in Washington. In a complete lack of media critique (and self-awareness) they were blasting Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine dancing in support of Donald Trump and waving thin blue line flags. Literally raging on behalf of the machine. The song is explicitly anti-police.
A lot of right wingers _love_ Rage Against the Machine. While I've always preferred Tom Morello's solo work to Rage, it has always baffled me to hear people like Paul Ryan express their love for them.
Yeah I feel like that's a common thread among conservatives, especially the older ones... Getting behind a certain song that they don't understand whatsoever, and is in fact against their beliefs in every way. Another great example is all the highly religious/Christian people who loved that "Take Me to Church" song because all they heard was "Take Me to Church," while completely ignoring all of the other lyrics which are definitely not pro-christian, pro-religion, or pro-church. In fact, the song is the exact opposite of that.
They recognize the anger and don't look any deeper.
Well...look at how misinterpreted Born in the USA has been for almost 40 years now
@@doperagu8471 Their lack of media literacy is astounding
It's funny how the "Don't tell me how to live" Crowd wants to command and dictate to everyone else how they should live.
yes, because they specifically mean "don't tell _me_ how to live" They never said anything about telling others how to live. In fact, if you prevent them from commanding and dictating how others live, you're taking away _their_ freedom
Their favorite hobby is pretending that the whole world is against them for being “against the status quo” when everything about them and how they tend to live their lives upholds the status quo.
The way they react to the slightest bit of change or progress that benefits marginalized groups is insane. They would be perfectly fine with the government persecuting the people they don’t like. That’s why they screamed about their lack of freedoms during covid lockdowns but shrug their shoulders when people bring up all of the books being banned in florida because that’s different, it’s to “protect the children”.
Protecting kids from misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc…too much government control but protecting them from the word “gay”?
A okay 👌🏽
"Hey we want the power to strip away your rights via government power, like abortion, marriage, Healthcare decisions involving your own children and we are the party of small government with a lower case S. Stay out of our personal lives libcucks."
The far-right: "We are the real free thinkers in this country, not those sheeple on the left."
A billionaire: "Vote for my best interests, peasants."
The far-right: "Sir, yes, sir!"
Great video, Leon! Thank you.
You forgot the quotation marks around "billionaire"
They only vote for the billionaire because they all believe THEY will be that same billionaire one day.
😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️
@@ngotemna8875 Yep! 😂😂😂😂
Imagine making a song about how offended people are while expressing constant offense at people not agreeing with your political opinions. Conservative talking points 101 right there.
Cool robot 🤖
I'm outraged by your outrage! Hypocrisy at its purest form.
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Seriously. For a group that touts insensitivity as much as reactionary conservatives, they have awfully thin skin. It's projection. They see themselves and they're ashamed.
r/selfawarewolves material.
"having an opinion doesn't make it immune to criticism" hell yes
I love how participation trophies became a meme about millennials, when it was our parents who came up with the idea.
You'd also be hard-pressed to find a millennial who actually enjoyed getting one.
Boomers also had a leg up on us that we will never have.
@@arkinyte13 Bigger boot straps
I’m on the older end of the “millennial” designation (born Jan. 1986), and I don’t even remember hearing about the younger kids in my school getting so-called “participation trophies”. I’m curious as to whether they actually exist. I’ve never even seen a photo of one. I’ve seen political cartoons, memes, and the like. Never anything genuine. I’m not saying they don’t exist, because I’m sure they do. They just don’t seem to be even remotely as common as some people claim. Which is very interesting if you consider that from a psychoanalytical perspective 🤔
I don't even think it's a common thing
Love the title. Kid Rock is truly the anti-Tom Morello: ignorant where Tom is educated, racist where Tom is not, regressive where Tom is progressive, and filled with hateful anger when Morello has the righteous anger of creation.
Also Tom has talent.
And a poser ("Southern blue-collar" from a white-collar Michigan family) who has no idea what the fuck he's talking about, whereas Tom Morello has made no illusions about the fact that he not only had an Ivy league education but that it's in political science (thus he absolutely knows what he's talking about).
@Potato Oh, God. I really hope not. It seems unlikely given Nugent's, er, predilection for teens and rejection of consent.
@Potato Don't know about Ted. But he plays D&D with Vince Vaughn.
@Potato probably friends due to music. Despite Nugent sucking ass, he's a good guitarist.
Constantly crying about how easily offended everyone else is is the definition of irony, and the right are unwitting prodigies in this art form.
... They never think "Maybe it's not everyone else, maybe I'm a real assh0le." Because that's what they want to be. They want to treat people like crap _and get away with it._
His name is pretty ironic too. He's a 50 year old man, and he definitely does not rock. Probably time for a Prince/Symbol style name change. Maybe just a picture of a guy smoking on the toilet or something.
@@duotronix2305 Indeed. Didn't Lil Bow Wow drop the Lil when he turned 13 or something?
@@wvu05 Right? When it's time, it's time, ya know? In fairness, he probably doesn't understand that either tho, lol.
They're unwitting at everything
This video is my first exposure to Kid Rock, since about 1996. Not sure if it's reassuring to know that he hasn't changed. Now back to not having him in my life at all.
[In Napoleon Dynamite voice] Lucky!
Honestly, I didn't even know he was still making music.
@@JLynnEchelon Nor did I.
If he's still got an audience to pander to, why should he change? Especially if all he's after is a comfortable lifestyle and a paycheck.
2008 was rough. You'd be listening to the radio thinking, "Oh, awesome. Werewolves of London... damnit." Fuck Kid Rock for that.
Can someone get Kid Rock a participation trophy for his contributions to the discourse please.
Looking at a list of musical awards he's been been nominated for/won reads like a bunch of participation trophies.
Kid Rock was the kid in school who got bullied and really took in the “culture” of the south despite not being there as a cope
He grew up in Romeo Michigan lol
Exactly
He was a rich kid who's rich family got him into music. He was a vanilla ice wannabe in his late teens and changed his persona many times until the southern rock rap thing stuck. He's a phoney.
nah, he's worse than a bullied kid. he was a rich kid who was making rap albums. He hung out with Too Short and was screaming about being a pimp for a decade before he went all out fake redneck.
He really wants to seem “down home” As a southerner, he’s doing an awful job with it like everything he does
calling us a generations of "p*****" while also treating us like terrorists is really funny. If we're so weak why not just stop us? What? Too scarred that we'll actually change something. It's their whole thing.
From Umberto Eco's 1995 piece "Ur-fascism":
"the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
The truth is we vastly out number them and they know that. We are more educated. We are more caring and the vast majority of the rest of the world is on our side. Beau of the Fifth Column said something that really stuck with me. I'll be paraphrasing because my memory isn't exact. But he was talking about conservatism and progressivism and the futility of one side. Conservatives seek to conserve an ideological dogma from the past and refuse to move in to the future. Progressives only want progress. To keep pushing forward to a better place in society for all. Conserving the past is futile essentially because nothing can stop progress. They are fighting a losing battle and that's just reality. I don't think we should expect that old way to just die silently in the night though.
@@nerdjournal and they are supported by the rich, or more the other way around.
@@nerdjournal Another big fan of Beau, here. He's actually the only person i watch every video from. Anyway, he has also repeatedly pointed out that on a long enough time line, the progressive side always wins and the pendulum always swings towards (social) justice.
That's part of why they're fighting so hard now, because even the dimmest of them understands this on some level. That also means its up to the rest of us (especially those of us who aren't marginalized ourselves but are allies of those who are, since we're most likely to be listened to by many) to keep pushing back, keep fighting harder, and to not rest on any laurels.
@@RevShifty yes! Keep fighting for what’s right! I always try to allow conservatives to see the errors in their ways using logic and reason
The fact that the "trans panic" defense is something, that even needs to be prohibited is just so sad. In a sane world you wouldn't need to stop people from using this defense, because no judge would take them sirious if they did.
I’ve got more bad news for you, before much attention was being payed to trans liberation, there was and is a gay panic defense.
@@Shimansaji The anti-trans movement takes most of its talking points from the anti-gay movement.
@@Uhlersoth77 that’s because the same people in the anti-trans movement were in the anti-gay movement.
@@Isaac-ot6jh Yup. And some of those fear mongering talking points were used towards black men, too. The targets may differ, but the game is the same.
Uhlersoth77 scapegoating vulnerable ppl and making their pathetic followers feel good about themselves by hurting others have been deliberate tools of power hungry, elitist/rich sociopaths since at least the 1930’s. And who in America today is a better target than transfolk, we’re even fewer in number, less understood by the public, and more voiceless than gay people, who were likewise to black people before them. Same dynamics as nazi Germany just with less pressure, if we had another Great Depression tho, things would intensify. The destiny of capitalism, consolidation of power in the hands of a few, and their perpetual games to manipulate the public to serve that cause.
Before I used to be ashamed to admit that I used tohave a Britney Spears CD. Now I'm ashamed to have been a Kid Rock fan at one point in my life.
How different it all seems as we mature.
Why not be ashamed of both? 🤔
@@renegadecut9875 still a big RATM fan 20 years later though
@@Jose-cb3tj cause Spears is actually cool
its comrade spears now though ;)
The title, alone, made my day. This guy's been an empty joke for as long as I can remember.
He just casually lays out conservatism and reactionism, explains their modern forms and rising popularity and completely demolishes any foundation they were built on, while talking about Kid fucking Rock. Holy shit
*AND* he's both accurate and entertaining.
Which is quite a feat, to be honest.
As a resident of Michigan, I sincerely apologize for the presence of Kid Rock on the Earth.
It's OK. Thanks for Jack White.
@@petezipardi4022 Plus Eminem, Aretha Franklin, and Motown.
@@fromthehaven94 And Alice Cooper.
We should break into his house and relocate him to where he belongs. Florida.
The fact that the man tried to use the Second Amendment as a threat while miming like he was chicken-winging a 1700's blunderbuss is hysterical to me for some reason.
Not only that, but I'll also never understand why right wing garbage think they have a monopoly on gun ownership. That has *never* been true. Even ignoring history, I'm as anti right as they come and I still likely own more guns than this clown.
It's funnier considering muzzle loader weapons from the 19th century and older is not restricted, like why is Kid Rock evoking 2A for something that was never in trouble in the first place?
Remember that episode of South Park where Cartman was trying to get into the special olympics so he watched kid rock concerts?
Well done. Thanks for making the"your just offended" argument so clear and easy to counter.
See also "the alt-right playbook" playlist by the channel innuendo studios
Talking down on millenials like we’re the youngins’ and not mostly 30 with kids at this point 😂
The elder millennials are now in their early 40's
I'm the *youngest* of Millennials and I'm 25
Kid Rock is dedicated to ignorance. Talking points are all he's got.
It takes someone really special to be the only mainstream early-2000's act worse than Nickleback.
I will still stand by Nickelback's first album, recorded when they were a struggling, hard-touring bar-band.
I dunno WHAT happened after that, though.
Early 2000s Creed was much worse than early 2000s Nickelback. All the songs the former gets rightfully mocked for all came from this time. That being said, Kid Rock is even worse.
@@toppersundquist Indeed. _Silver Side Up_ is actually good. I would even defend "If Everyone Cared," and that came years later. However, it seems like they stumbled upon a formula for making a hit single, and as Creed (see above comment) demonstrates, when you figure out a formula for hits, the quality drops as time goes on.
At least Chad Kroeger’s latest song is good.
@@toppersundquist Curb, The State and Silver Side Up are all passable. Then it quickly shifts to 9 of the songs on any album being interchangeable and boring.
Kid Rock isn't SoAD or Deftones, that people don't even really want to put together with the rest of the Nu-Metal scene.
Kid Rock isn't Linkin Park, that brought a different aesthetic and introspection to be considered the "respectable" nu-metal band
Kid Rock isn't Slipknot, which still has somewhat of a public relevance thanks to a die-hard fanbase.
Kid Rock isn't even Limp Bizkit, that outlived their overwhelming hatred by the public eye and are actually self-aware so now everybody plays cool with them.
Kid Rock is just cringe.
Been binging SoAD recently and dear lord are they incredibly to the left of their time. Especially Toxicity, I wore out that CD in high school :D
He isn't even Nickleback.
@@severdislike4222 SOAD is great but i still cant get over that serj is into nfts
@@smartbug9811 Well at least he's not as much of a dumbfuck as their drummer is.
@@kingboobs20 Yeah, I was going to mention the drummer... D:
The stock footage at 7:06, the guy on the bed with his feet up like a teenage girl and snarling at the screen really brightened my day, thanks
He's just living his best life.
Glad I'm not the only one who appreciated that.
Hahaha I was looking for this comment. I’m glad somebody else noticed it too
I swear I rewound + rewatched that part 10x lol
"Jesus Christ, this is what I'm doing this week? *laughter*" I love this so much xD
I appreciate that you took the time to listen to this painful "song" and then do an analysis. I certainly don't have the strength for such activity, myself.
I wonder how many of today's kid rock fans know that he was on the Insane Clown Posse's first album and that ICP later saw what direction he was taking and started making fun of him in several of their songs.
Not an ICP fan, but that's pretty amusing.
I’ll never be a ICP fan but generally they seem to be pretty decent dudes.
They're *insane* Clowns! The reactionary & racist clowns are over there.
@@megsley Juggalos need a You're Wrong About episode lol. They've often been pretty cool, all magnet jokes aside.
(Also no, my comment not coming from personal taste; I'm a Ye Olde Alt Indeeee-Hipster + 3am Ancient Shook One)
ICP is based af and has always been the place for the weirdos. As weirdo-adjacent who grew up in Michigan, I have a lot of Juggalo friends and they have consistently been the kindest and most open people in my life.
Not one of my Juggalo friends has ever hoarded their weed and they always have drinks. Idk what more you need tbh, they got it figured out.
RENEGADE CUT!!! You radicalized me, thanks, I was an asshole before. Didn’t even realize it.
Love your vids.
We respect character growth in this house! 👏
That's great. How did it happen for you?
Holy hell. Please don't tell me this guy is famous in the US.
Famous-ish. In the sense that most people wouldn’t call him an A-list celebrity, but his popularity with conservatives and the boomer crowd makes it so that we hear his name far more often than we need to.
Kid Rock was huge about fifteen years ago. He's not exactly one of the top acts now, but he still has his fans.
@@nekovalley yep… and this boomer can’t say enough how much it sucks that so many of my generational cohorts have such reprehensible viewpoints and intentions… and such abysmal taste. Personally, I’ll take Lil Nas X (that boy *slaps*!) over any of those racist old has-beens (e.g. Kid Rock or Nugent) any damn day. At this point it’s the old farts I want off my lawn- the kids are alright. And there’s still a few of us old anarchists around!
OK. I won't tell you, he's famous in the US.
@@ttubebaby hey, you promised you wouldn't!
Liistening to Joe Rogan trying to string together a barely coherent sentence is as grating as someone very slowly scraping their nails on a chalkboard.
It’s amazing how many people on the left defend Rogan. “hE’s JuSt aSkInG qUeStIOnS!” - no, he’s a proxy (and sometimes straight up) mouthpiece for all kinds of shitty, bad faith, reactionary viewpoints.
Just because he occasionally has some tepid liberal or centrist on his show doesn’t somehow balance out the 95% of his content which is trotting out conspiracy theorists, misogynists, transphobes and other CHUDS (or parroting their talking points.
@@badsneakers917 I think a lot of people like him 'cuz weed man' and they are idiots. He is a first-rate moron. He is a 'fighter-guy', I guess.
CHUD, Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. Have not seen that movie since it hit VHS. What does it mean in your sentence?
I'd rather listen to the nails.
Kyle Kullinski and Krystal Ball are, I guess, still left wingers and still play defense for Rogan. Kyle is personally friends with him, and has a history of being a bit of a wuss when it comes to his friends saying/doing shitty things. Krystal is a just a grifter, so no surprise she touts Rogan.
Another fab video - the clarity of what the right really is becomes clearer to me every single day, and this is a fantastic example of their methods
What is the right, like what do they really believe?
Love your vids. Glad you're enjoying yourself doing them. Lol. Peace and Light from New Zealand.
"An avatar of reactionism," is the epitome of perfection in describing Kid Rock - well said.
Ty for suffering through a Kid Rock song for your viewers. I cannot extend enough gratitude
Whenever people say there's a difference between conservatives and reactionaries, I tell them a reactionary is just a conservative in action.
Outstanding; really well done and concise while having a ton of detail. Thank you for your work.
I do find it funny how Kid Rock used idpol to endear himself to boomers who probably would have hated his music 20 years ago.
I've been lowkey hoping you'd cover this. I'm embarrassed by how popular this song has become where I live.
Oh no.😖
This is gaining popularity in red states? I now dread visiting my family in WV next summer.
@@wvu05 right like you weren't dreading it already 😖
Where do you live? This is the first time I'm hearing about this chucklefuck since... whenever his first album came out. But I don't listen to the radio and many of my friends either own independent record stores or spent years working in college radio, so I'm probably luckier than many. And definitely luckier than you.
Regardless, I'm sorry, and I hope this fades from relevancy as fast as everything else he has ever done.
You're brilliant Mr renegade. I don't know of this Kid Rock, but you put a lot of things in a perspective for me to get on with my day, but also stop me and think. You remind me to not be a moron, or, try your best to not be a moron at least. Thank you
"Acres-wide estate with its own orchard" would totally spin into "grew up on a farm"
Leon, I can't express how much I respect your work. You've inspired me in how I approach information and how I articulate concepts, and each time you bring a perspective I never considered. Thank you for your time and effort, even on subjects like Kid Rock
I never knew a video about kid rock would have such a great definition of what reactionary means. I've heard the term probably 1000 times now and while understanding it I've never heard it put so elegantly and explained in context like you've done here.
He's not Kid Rock, he's Middle-Aged Whine.
Music is such a powerful tool, one that expresses the emotions of the artist in such a raw, honest way. It's really sad to see an artist like Kid Rock because it just shows how sincere he is about all this. I'm also deeply troubled by the masses of people who find that his music resonates with them. Music reflects life, and I'm sad that this is the life we're living.
@@ngotemna8875 both.
leon your videos are consistently poignant and well researched. the work u do is necessary and i appreciate all of the effort u put into it.
Love how Monster Truck needs to wear a Slayer shirt in order to establish a badassness he lacks himself.
I'm glad you ended up deciding to make this video. This is actually an excellent explanation of how reactionary movements are actually anti-equality. Thank you.
You made my day with the regret section at the beginning. Thank you for all of these videos.
Kid Rock is the kinda guy who complains for 15 minutes about why he should be able n word and tells Puerto Ricans to go back to their own counry 🙄
accurate
Kid rock grew up in a privileged household. His childhood home sold for millions. Meanwhile he tried to poormouth his way into some kind of working class cred by claiming to be "Straight out of the trailer" and releasing "Po Dunk" a glorification of a life he never lived. Kid Rock gets pissy when someone questions him about anything because, like his orange god, he grew up never being questioned or being denied anything. To not be on top by default is terrifying to him.
"If you're allowed to have 'an opinion', then so am I, and my opinion is that you just said some really stupid shit" is always a valid response.
Great video as always, i loved the slow methodical explanation of how reactionary thought works!
If Kid Rock wants to talk about absurd freak outs over being “easily offended,” we could discuss him divorcing Pamela Anderson for appearing in Borat.
Of course none of this is sincere. Kid Rock is just cynically trying to capitalize off of angry “stop the steal” rubes, like Aaron Lewis was so successful at doing. His song was far from sincere as well.
they were married? The hell was Pamela thinking?
Love the videos, they always seem to get to the heart of the matter. It's like you have a grasp on the psychology behind it.
Omg I laughed so hard when you went into his actual background 😂😂😂. For like 20 years I'm really thinking the dude grew up in a trailer. I didn't care enough to look but my goodness the contrast of KR's version vs reality is embarrassing. This like some Malibu's Most Wanted type of stuff.
Kid rock to me has always been the sound track to trashy shit like copper theft. Dude has an audience alright, but his audience has some "interesting characteristics."
The sound track to copper theft!! 🤣 Holy hell, you're right!
I actually think the best was the tweet circulating that Kid Rock makes music for guys that have to blow into tubes to start their car
@@megsley as a die hard ATHF fan, I can tell you as "classy" Carl is, he has too refined of taste in music for trash like kid rock.
@@megsley nah, he's purely a chicken foot fan now.
I misread that somehow and now I've got Kid Rock as the soundtrack for Ea-nasir selling his shit copper to merchants.
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed has never sounded so scathing.
Thankyou for your work. Not only is it well made and speaks truth to power but it's very important at this time.
Kid Rock is an example of the line "lived long enough to see himself become the villain."
a recurring filler antagonist brought back to being the main heel because the writers ran out of ideas
@@yb000 lol exactly. The one that all the fans hate.
After "Devil Without A Cause", he had a chance to move into the new millennium with the same musical momentum; to say that he blew it, well, that might be undershooting a little bit.
As someone who knew the guys in Monster Shmuck 🎉 what a great video, you nailed it.
Kid Rock maintain his career this long tells you everything you need to know about our failing country. I hate it here.
BuT iT's A mErItOcRaCy!
@@charlieboone1298 its so bad that the older I get, the more it seems like America has an "antimeritocracy" problem. It seems to me like financial and political success often have a NEGATIVE corration to someone's intelligence, integrity, and empathy.
@@iamjustkiwi I see this too. My suspicion is that the system rewards confidence, and nobody's confident like a malignant narcissist. So, we end up with institutions/corporations being run by a bunch of people incapable of seeing their own failures.
@@iamjustkiwi The worst qualities are rewarded *with consistency*.
This is so well stated and really puts into context my feelings. I live in a very rural American area and often get lost in the barrage of people reciting these same tired lines. I'm going to have to revisit this one a lot so I can really better understand how to approach the conversation.
Food for the algorithm, thanks for your insightful work, as always!
You're quickly becoming my favorite youtuber. Keep up the good work!
To quote Robert Christgau's review of Kid Rock's self-titled 2001 album, "Turned into Ted Nugent pretty quick, didn't he? Only who told him that meant not being funny?".
Kid Rock is just cringe at this point, he's not Ted Nugent with those catchy guitar licks, he's not Limp Bizkit with their self-awareness, he's not Rage Against the Machine with their politics or even bland enough to be like RHCP. I find it fascinating that in his "Devil Without a Cause" album, his best, he used imagery about violence towards the police as a good thing, and now he's pretty much advocating for them. Cringe.
"...bland enough to be like RHCP." Someone finally said it out loud, and I'm grateful.
Kid Rock and Robert Christgau are both cringe.
@@nunyabidnis3815 rhcp are just worse mr bungle
Thank you for all your hard work! You try so hard to educate all of us! Excellent job of staying objective and reaching out to everyone!
“when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”
bull's freaking eye
Thank you for spending your week doing this
Kid Rock looks like the sort of person who smells lightly of stale chips for no discernible reason.
I liked Kid Rock back when his lyrics were much more intelligent; such as “ba wit da baw da bang da bang diggy diggy”
I'm not disappointed with Kid Rock. I never expected anything more from him.
This was so good, I'm gonna watch it again!
Quick reminder that Mr Kid is in his 50s.
So the easiest rebuttal to his new song, and his entire schtick for that matter, is 'OK, Boomer'?
@@i.am.adrian I'm not into memes personally but sure.
Kid prostate trouble😂
Kid Rock
(A Rebel Without a Cause)
AKA
A Confederate With Daddy’s Check Book.
Thank you! Appreciate all you do
Great take, and a great way to address these issues. Thanks, renegade.
I just assumed Kid Rock was always a parody.
He'll run for some public office position after he gets enough praise and attention from the right. Dr. Oz is doing it right now. I think Mike Rowe is also going to do it.
Legitimate question why is he still Kid Rock? Lil Bow Wow dropped the “Lil”. Surly by now he should be Man Rock or just Rock.
Maybe it's to keep up that "youthful & rebellious" vibe 🤷♂️
GeriatRock. Get off my Rock. Gimme Money Rock.
Mid (dle age) Rock😂
This is 100% so good! Perfectly explained. Thank you.
Kid Rock came up breakdancing and opening act for run dmc in the late 80s early 90’s then was a rap/metal guy in the mid 90’s to a country star in the early 2000’s….he was an inner city rapper to a hill billy country music guy in the span of 30 years
That's just sad..... culture vulturism at it's cringiest
As always insightful. Keep up the good Work
I feel like this one is going to blow up.
You're so good at breaking this stuff down! You & Beau are such fantastic advocates for progressivism and anarchism, I really admire how you focus on conveying the message to people beyond those circles in such a simple and persuasive manner ✊🏴💖
As a Michigander, I would like to formally apologize to the world for Kid Rock. Our bad, fellas.
You still have D12, Eminem, classic Motown, and Royce Da5'9
You are ok.
Thank you for keeping me sane.
I love your videos please continue to inspire me!
"...mental gestures that resemble ideas." Preach!
Kidd Rocks whole career is a rich kids participation trophy
my favourite video of yours! it's illumminating on the level of innuendo studios' alt right essays
You hit the nail on the head with the social media benefitting The Right. I'm a Leftist on Facebook sharing Bernie's posts, but constantly get Right-Wing pages suggested. Like sure, Facebook. I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter but pages called "Stop Commie Scum" would definitely interest me.
Your videos are so thoughtful and well researched. You have a way of taking what I've been thinking, but have had trouble expressing, painting the picture and then taking it a step further. Bravo
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
~Charles Darwin
Another classic RC! Thank you for your work.
My parents would play his music literally every day in the car when I was a child. Telling it is that I don’t remember a single word of it, or even a tune. In fact, the only song I remember vaguely is the one where he speaks absolute gibberish nonsense (That doesn’t narrow it down, I know)
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogy said up jump the boogy
For anyone that wants to see Kid Rock being dunked on for being a crappy artist, check out Pat Finnerty's "What Makes This Song Stink: Ep. 2"
He also did a great “little stinkers” on this song too 😂
Pat Finnerty is awesome. I love watching him dunk on crappy artists.
Great job Leon! I’ve been laughing and cringing at this song since release. I’m glad it inspired this level of analysis from you!
I’ve been watching your channel for a long time but it was that [regrets] label what made me subscribe to your Patreon 😂 Keep the great work!