MelatoninI'm a fan of "Southern Rock," but sometimes the lyrics make me wonder if i should drop it. Generally I listen more for music than message, but I don't want my kids hearing "be proud you're a rebel..."
originalucifer"southern pride" is just racism alllll cleaned up. so much racism.
But I’m saying it’s not that. It’s the musical style, I really like it. I love Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama, Ramblin’ Man by the Allman Brothers, Frankenstein by Edgar Winter, tons of really good songs.
Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism and Skynard retorts ‘yea most people here are racist, but not all of us and whoa now look at the sky’.
Horse shit lyrics
You realize that they sang that ironically as a caricature of someone living in the south right?
I think you’re mistaking self-awareness in VanZants sense of pride and conflicting knowledge of the south troubled history with an intentional caricaturization .
Also Alabama just plain sucks. Muscle Shoals studio and the Mobile Bay jubilee are the only things they ever did right