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Don't know if you guys know this but Rich Men North of Richmond refers to Washington DC and our politicians. Richmond is a city in Virginia. DC is north of it.
Rich Men North of (Richmond/Rich Men)Is a double
He's talking to The World Elite
The Rich Men Above The Rich Men
The World Elite are 1% who own 99% of the wealth and make us fight over the 1% of wealth that's left
Also D.C is North of Richmond where the puppet politician's are who work for The World Elite
Thank you
🤓don’t know if you guys know
They don’t know. Which obv makes sense. Thanks for trying to help others learn instead of being a dick like others!
@clayjay88 thanks for adding nothing to the convo while acting like a 5 year old. Mouthbreathers like you being allowed to vote is why we're stuck with the presidents we keep getting...
The lyric was "The rich men north of Richmond". It is in reference to the politicians in Washington DC. Washington, DC is north of Richmond, Virginia.
The message is that the politicians sheer the workers from the top and freeloaders sheer them from the bottom. They are thus destroyed from both sides. The young men who put themselves six feet in the ground is referring to the twenty two military vets who commit suicide every day.
I don't think the six feet under line is just about vets. Male suicide numbers overall are really bad and getting worse.
@@derpyeh9107 Agree with you. The slanderous name calling 'Masculine toxicity' is destroying good men.
@@marianclough8577 Isn't that the point, though? Don't the people who use terms like that think the world would be a better place with fewer people like me?
They are not just referring to military vets ...although we own them more than anyone, but self deletion is rampant across our nation and young men see nothing but attacks from the main stream and decide this world isn't worth it for them.😢
The young men putting themselves six feet in the ground isnt about military vets at all. Im a vet and that is a very important issue. He is talking about how taxes are going to unfair welfare distribution for things that it shouldnt. And young men are working themselves so hard paying not earning enough and what they do earn. Much of that is going to taxes. This creates stress and leads to higher suicide rates in young men and older men. The whole theme to the song is about working class being craped on.
This song is becoming an anthem for the regular people of the world. Not just the states. Because it's relatable to anyone who's ever struggled to pay for their bills and keep food on the table to feed their families
Yeah, I hate that people are saying it is just a far right anthem when it is simply emotion from a songwriter who's feelings can be empathised by the layman
Facts
Don't forget that he's complaining about being robbed by taxes 👍
@@DestructoDisk And no left person has ever thought taxes are to high? :P
I'm a Brazilian man and this song muved me! ❤
I seen a comment somewhere of someone saying “this guy alone proves that gingers have souls” and it cracked me up 😂
That's a running joke in our family because we have so many gingers, we always tease them that they have no souls, I feel like I should apologize now.
Don’t be fooled they’re still soulless
I must have watched the reaction with the same ginger soul joke. And I love it.
South Park. LOL!
Words cant describe how happy i was when i found out Oliver was a fellow Virginian.
Thank you for your reaction. The fact that this song got over 14M views in the first seven days tells you that the message transcends age, color/race/ethnicity, religion, nationality, etc., and resonates with ordinary folk the world over. This should be mandatory listening for everyone in government, whether elected, appointed, or just employed. "The rich men north of Richmond" is a reference to politicians and “power players” in Washington DC.; Washington, DC is north of Richmond, Virginia, and probably to the financiers on Wall Street. However, politicians and the “elites” seem to be the same anywhere."I wish politicians would look out for miners and not just minors on an island (Eppstein Island) somewhere" is certainly an indictment of the elites who seem to get away with their crimes too often. I hope this anthem will wake up more people and get us ordinary folks to unite and take a stand before it's too late. God bless you.
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Well Said!!!👍
You also have NYC which had the most billionaires in 2022. Granted it's definitely more about DC.
@@bohicagaming4462 Agredd. I mentioned them indirectly when I referred to Wall Street.
@@CGrant8411 Bless your heart.
The song hits hard, respect from Australia, the whole world is feeling it and hearing his message.
Thats how bluegrass music came to be. People that migrated from England Ireland and Scotland brought there instruments like the guitar and fiddle and African slave brought the banjo and the poor hillflok of the Appalachian area played a lot of music and it eventually became bluegrass that we hear and love today
This is the sound of my youth. Mixed with blues too. The crying in the voice.
If you're going to bring up slaves, you have to include the Irish-Polynesian natives of America. Africans were not the only slaves in the US, despite what we're taught in public indoctrination centers.
Uh, the banjo is an American instrument. It is the only American instrument, as a matter of fact.
I'm not talking about slavery, I'm only talking about music and you're gonna have to do a little research because the banjo actually did originate in Africa.
@@jasonstewart3996 So you say. It is the only totally American instrument.
If youlook behind him he is a hunter, that is a hunter blind. Love this tune he sings the truth.
The rich men north of Richmond are the policians in Washington. Loving your reactions, hoping youre gonna react to Rens new release tomorrow evening.
Its amazing to see people just speechless over this song. This song is nothing short of powerful.. love from Missouri.
Friends, the song is about Washington DC. And I respectfully disagree with Ash (❤) re: the point of the song: We’re *angry.* The song acknowledges that angst. And there’re most definitely things we can do about it ….
some details…for those who do not know the miners vs island for minors reference, its about the richmen north of richmond (washington politicians) legislating away the coal industry and putting sooo many of the us middleclass “all the miners” (after all, Oliver’s from Virginia) out of work and then the island for “minors” is a reference to the convicted child (minors) sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein's private island, Little St. James, in the US Virgin Islands and the illegal activities involving minors occurring on his island. Epstein hosted many influential persons, on his island, including several US politicians, former president clinton just to name one!
This is a Blue Collar Anthem...A MIDDLECLASS ANTHEM, that UNIFIES all the colors that make that Blue: black, red, yellow, white and all tones and shades in between, ALL hard working, responsible men and women not only in the us but around the world! It's time WE recognize, embrace and promote our common ties: our love of Family, our concern for our Fellow man, our work-ethic, and our Demand for LIBERTY! rather than letting the richmen North of richmond (Virginia...aka washington politicians) divide us and in so doing destroy the middleclass! In a society where there is no middleclass, to help keep the ruling elite and their desires to have Absolute Power at bay, that society WILL collapse!
Exactly
James the lesser was the one who convinced Peter to allow apostates to join the church on the condition that they would refrain from Ash sacrifice(human). The Vatican didn't like the sound of lesser so they changed it to Little St. James
This song speaks to all of us common people working hard for a living no matter what country they are in. Beautiful song.
Loved the reaction. North of Richmond is DC. Someone needs to go there and make these politicians listen to that song 24/7 on massive speakers.
This is American folk music, straight out of Appalachia.
He has an intro video on his personal channel that he posted the day before the song was released. He tells some of his story. He was hoping the song would get "some traffic " lol. I guess it did.
A local radio station that scouts hidden talent in Appalachia asked if they could record him at their expense. This is what they recorded. It's on his land in Virginia where he lives off grid with his dogs.
You’ve gotta keeper bro. Initial reaction while watching this for me was seeing how supportive she is of you. Whatever it is life throws at us, do NOT give up. Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Having a supportive love definitely keeps us grounded and grounds men’s logic. Keep it up!
Oliver really spoke to countless millions with this song. It’s *exactly* what, not only the States, but the whole world needed. Not too bad for a working class recovering alcoholic who just had something to say.
But yea, as others have mentioned, the rich men north of Richmond refers to everybody’s friends in DC, which is less than 100 miles from there.
And there are actually a few English bands that play country and Appalachian folk and pull it off well - the Stones, for one. Keith Richards has an incredible country voice.
He’s so good , he’s got a few more good songs too. Love your channel!
The song is not about rich vs poor.
It's about the powerful against powerless.
Squarely where it belongs.
Just found out 2 more friends my age (28) killed themselves since I last saw them. Young men are hurting right now. I cry everytime I hear this.
North of Richmond, Virginia is Washington DC
Thanks for reacting to this!
From Southern California
Speaking as a bearded ginger who lives in Tennessee. There is alot of great music here. Oh and he is talking about the rich people in Washington D.C.
All the pain, frustration , and anger of an entire nation watching the death of their country !
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Thank you for reacting to this! Love your channel!!!😊
From the man himself:
It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on.
Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me.
People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.
So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction:
My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine.
In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again.
From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated.
In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750.
There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.
That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.
When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you.
Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
ive watched so many reactions to this and seeing the emotions take over is how strong this message is that it is taking over the world. ALSO you guys have such a BEAUTIFUL relationship.
I'm from VA BORN AND RAISED YES and my family is from Scotland n the mountains of shenaneoah mountains. Oliver is from FarmVille south of RICHMOND, VA we love him....Thank GOD for the USA
I was raised in Virginia all my life... Great song...So much heart... I have been meaning to ask y’all??? When are y’all getting married🤣😯🤣🤣🤣🤣Ya should! Y’all are a beautiful couple! Much love! ♥️
Richmond is Richmond VA (he’s from West Virginia). Two hours north of Richmond is the D.C. swamp.
BEAUTIFUL reaction, Guys! Thanks. Appreciate it. Thanks for keeping it real. Keep up the Great Work! Peace, Brother and Sister! 🙂
Watching so many reaction videos I've noticed those outside of the states don't get certain points such as Oliver is refering to DC; but what makes this anthem so awesome is despite not being in the US the world is still identifying. ♥️
I don’t know if y’all know, but the Rich Men North of Richmond, North Richmond is Washington DC, he’s singing about politicians and their greed.
Rich men north of Richmond, meaning Richmond Virginia, the place he speaks of is Washington DC, he's talking about the Federal Government, which takes roughly 33% of every working man's pay check.
The guitar was simple and your right. As an Irishman who has lived in the US for the past 30 years there was a man name Harlan Howard who said all you need is "Three cords and the truth".
North of Richmond = Washington DC. You're getting American folk music here.
Folk music = Hipster music
I have been watching tons of Oliver’s video reactions. I just watched a bubbly fun loving couple have their souls drained and immersed into each and everyone of the common man’s injustices and struggle. Welcome aboard. “I know that you know.”
Thank you. It means so much.
Subscribed & United ❤ from across the Pond
The rich men north of Richmond refers to Washington DC
Some times less is more, the minimalistic music behind the song makes it more powerful.
His music has impacted me greatly! It's all i've been listening to lately.
I highly recommend his songs I've Got To Get Sober and Virginia. His voice is 🤯🤯
Scots-Irish settled in the Appalachian areas and spread out across the deep south of the US. Lots of passion and endurance in these folks.
you two are just lovely
Other people have said it but yeah-Washington DC is north of Richmond VA.
Dave, you say you can't do anything and feel powerless. In my opinion, you ARE doing something by sharing this video with your growing list of subscribers and others. Great job and great reaction/conversation you two!
The "Rich Men North of Richmond" in this song refers to our government officials in Washington, DC.
This gent wrote a song that became an anthem for the working class worldwide in an absolutely short amount of time. From his video on his channel a few days after this went viral he is a very humble man. This song will be remembered for quite some time. The best part of it is he never called out either side of the American political isle, rather he called them all out. The politicians forget that in the structuring of the U.S. by the founding fathers the politicians work for the people but they have gotten so greedy that they have twisted that into thinking that we work for them. And "The Rich Men North of Richmond" is referencing Washington D.C. as it is only around 100 miles north of Richmond Virginia. Which ironically was also the dividing line during the American Civil War. Richmond being the Conferderate capital and D.C. being the Union's
P.S. Your observation of the whole stemming from Adam and Eve got me banned from a church when I was around 10 or so years old.
My Family on my Dad’s side is from West Virginia. My Granny’s side Scottish Irish decent and my Grandpa’s side Dutch. North of Richmond, VA is Washington D.C.
"and they took all the good music with them" amen to that!
These are "our people" in a diffferent part of the world. The poetry and emotion which make the lyrics go straight to the soul. Really, it's the common man and woman who struggle each day to try and make a living.
Appreciate you reacting to this one guys..❤
Thank you sir & ma’am for doing this video. 👏🏻 👏🏻 Y’all belong in the US maybe near the Appalachian mountains, I’ll vouch for you.
Here in the United State of America 🇺🇸 Rich men North of Richmond is D C. D C is were our political leaders make our laws. Richmond is a county in Virginia, a state below D C
lord....its a damn shame. Most heartfelt lyric I think ive ever someone sing
I pray more people start speakin up and tellin their truth.
This is the first time I have watched a video on your channel. Love the Office Blokes, love Daz and his family, but now I really love you and the mrs. You go off on any tangents you like. That piece at the end about the newt had me in hysterics. Much love from NC.
His line "for people like me and people like you" is the cement that united everyone of every race color and creed to give the song the power it has and united everyone, the rest of what he says are just the same facts we all live with and think as humans :) and this aint country music, its music for the country!
He's talking about Washington DC which is North of Richmond. He's living the song.
DC is north of Richmond. Our taxes and heath care deductions is 58% of paycheck in the USA. We go and see a doctor and we still pay for the office visit. $15.00 is normal per hour.
Thanks for the reaction 👍
Tyler Childers,another ginger,is also from the Appalachians~!! I'm 50%Scottish,50% Swedish but 100% American~!!~and was born with copper red hair. Sadly it turned brown when I was about 5😔Now it's just silver lol......
He is from South West Virginia. He is Scots-Irish as most of them are. It begins in Montgomery County VA and goes West into Kentucky. It is a totally different culture there. Where I am from it is very English culture derived along with German. I live one County away. It is very difficult to explain the Scots-Irish there. Their culture is that of Ulster Scots who fled North Ireland after being settled there 400 years ago. Both of my wives have been from out there. Wife two is a red head but is 80% English with some Irish/Scottish thrown in. My first wife was blond blues eyes and had the Scots-Irish facial features. Washington DC is 100 miles north of Richmond VA, South West VA is 200 miles West of Richmond. Richmond was formally Richmond-Manchester. It changed names about one 130 years ago.
It really reminds of an Irish lad out there belting out a chorus of one of the many great protest songs in their history that just hit home with the forgotten folk of the world.
You are right about the accent, someone else said the same in another reaction video
Washington DC is north of Richmond VA. That is what he is referring too.
Just north of Richmond, VA is Washington DC
There are lots of English musicians when they sang I had no idea they were from England until I heard their interview 😂
From South Africa here, the corruption is everywhere, and all people not matter which country you are from or race or age, this is affecting everyone in the World. Powerful song.
Loved it. Side note, Dave, us Americans LOVE yalls accent. I’m from the south and anytime I hear an English accent I think “that’s badass”.
Im happy to have found you two while scrolling through TH-cam on this lazy Sunday afternoon.
And may i say you're a lovely couple!
Washington DC is 2 hours north of Richmond, he is talking about the national government.
This is the first time he had ever sang into a microphone.
Washington D.C. of course. Thanks for covering.
2.5 hours "North of Richmond" Virginia is Washington DC. You know the rest of the story.
It's Oliver Anthony Music which I believe is named for his grandfather. His name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford.
We all come from Noah's children. I am a Biomedical Engineer and you can tease me all you want. Chris is a High school dropout, lives in a camper, worked 12 hour shifts six days a week for years in factories in North Carolina and Virginia, and was about a month sober when he recorded this. The guy is legit
Rich Men above Richmond is the US Government that sits in Washington DC, which is situated in Northern Virginia. He is talking about how they the Elites and the Politicians dont give a Sh** about the regular guy/girl. He took a stab at the epstein Island child trafficking and child trafficking in general and how they closed the coal mines and killed the jobs. then he took a stab at people who are on welfare that are milking the welfare system. Excellent song, speaks volumes. He has a really big set of cahones to speak about the establishment.
Hey brother, sing whatever you want to sing about and as long as you feel it, it will sound like it
Richmond VA is the capitol of Virginia. Washington DC is 90 miles north. The suburbs of DC keep creeping south. Almost to Richmond now.
Washington DC is just north of Richmond VA.
As others have already mentioned, this song is strictly about politicians, not "the rich" in general. It has nothing to do with corporations or anyone who is rich due to making an honest living or running a company. It's specifically about politicians who are rich due to being corrupt to one extent or another. Hence the two references in the title, rich men, and the area North of Richmond known as Washington D.C. Also, this is a great example of what Country music is all about. The genre is also known as "3 chords and the truth". It's all about the story, or the message in the song.
He's singing in the style of Appalachian Folk Music. Richmond, Virginia is the Capital of Virginia and NORTH of Richmond is WASHINGTON D.C. = his rich men are the elites, Politicians and Corporations. -- Loved your reaction, just luckily happened to come across your post. Love your take and your thoughts you find in Oliver's tune. The main thing I have found from watching reviews is no matter who WE are or WE we are from, this tune has a different meaning to each one of US = however, we all come to the same conclusion, things can NOT stay the way they are!
Im a old cowboy from Texas.
I think you young people are fantastic!!!
I love knowing young people understanding this story!
After watching the reaction and the conversation afterwards I must say that you are 100% well within your rights to feel and get pissed off… your feelings are a good indicator for how bad things have gotten… and when it comes to not being able to do anything about it… we’ll I must say YOU can do something about problems that seem out of your control as can every person that feels the way you do! You have an large audience of people that feels exactly how you do and support you… don’t ever just roll over and be contempt with how the world/country is… our ancestors fought and died for change throughout history and just because we are in a technological age that doesn’t mean the fight just stops… there are plenty of ways to fight the good fight all it takes is stepping up to the plate and figuring out how you will do it… I love the reaction and I love the channel… RAH from America 🇺🇸 🦅🌎⚓️
9:00 love this song
To clarify (I'm sure someone has said it already) "Rich Men from Richmond" is a reference to Washington D.C. The politicians live north of D.C. in the more affluent areas.
It's about getting your feelings across without being pretentious
good video i love it. Her face said it all just soaken it all up with a real reaction to it. rich men north of richmond it refering to politicians living in DC.
I came for Oliver.
Didnt realize I was find such a beautiful young couple.
We dont need to live like this. We need change.
Love from Canada 🇨🇦
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North of Richmond is Washington, D.C.
HE IS TALKING FROM HIS HEART ............THE RICH MEN JUST WANT TO KEEP US ALL DOWN AND THEY DO! YES THEY DO!
there is a reason that the accent sounds scottish, the area the singer comes from was settled by Majority scott /irish settlers in the 1780- 1840's. look it up.
He>I
We>they💜
Thank You for connecting us
When I first heard this song, I thought of this being in the same spirit of an old Irish ballad.
If you're not from USA, here's a few things to give you more context to the song....
1. "Rich men north of Richmond" is referring to all the politicians in America's capitol Washington DC just an hour or so north of Richmond, Virginia. And the whole song is about how they're abusing their power and running this country into the ground
2. 7:14 is so ridiculous - "Wish politicians would look out for miners" - referring to coal-miners or the blue-collar hard-working middle class who are the backbone of our society and work their tails off to barely survive.....then he flips Miners to Minors which means underage....."And not just Minors on an island somewhere" - referring American billionaire Epstein who was sexually trafficking minors/teenages to his private islands, who had connections to many American politicians and powerful people and dodged accusations for years.
Love that this song is literally everywhere now. All the snowflake tears are glorious.
Washington DC is north of Richmond VA.
I know what you mean about accents and folk style music... check out some of the English folk music I recommend Maddy Prior, Kate Rusby, John Tamms, seth Lakeman... all legends in the folk scene... and above all Jethro Tull... check out their Songs from the Wood album... sublime! Oh and Ash... the title track from JT Songs From The Wood... is worth a good Filk for any discerning LARP Bards!
lmao Dave is right about the redheaded/ginger descending from one ancestor.