Oliver Anthony Music Opens Up About Discourse Surrounding ‘Rich Men’ – Billboard

Oliver Anthony remains to be reeling off the success of his breakout hit, “Wealthy Males North of Richmond,” which is at present having fun with its second week atop the Billboard Scorching 100 albums chart. In a uncommon interview, the 31-year-old singer joined the Joe Rogan Expertise podcast to share extra about how the whirlwind previous week has felt.

“I’m the subject material the final couple of weeks,” he shared of the political discourse surrounding his tune, with each right-wing and left-wing supporters taking stabs at what the tune represents. “Individuals are simply looking for out who’s this Oliver Anthony man, and the place does he work, and who did he vote for, and what’s his household like and yada yada. They need to construct this picture of no matter it’s that the individual behind the tune represents, for higher or for worse.

“It’s actually humorous to look at on my finish, as a result of clearly, I do know what’s true and what’s not,” he continued. “There’s there’s been a whole lot of hours of individuals’s time wasted most likely speaking about all these little like issues that don’t even exist. Someone made them up, put them on the Web. So, I’m simply letting it journey. I simply assume it’s nice. Not less than the final couple of weeks, I feel I’ve been capable of entertain everybody and get everybody’s thoughts off like all of the all the opposite horrible stuff that’s occurring on the earth proper now. Like, not less than everyone can have snicker.”

Anthony additionally shared extra about his background and the way he bought into music later in life. “The issue for me was I knew that I wanted to do that. I procrastinated with music a very long time,” he defined. “I imply, I’m 31 and I’ve been enjoying guitar and singing on and off since I used to be a child. My grandma was in a band years in the past and, I used to be like 5 and I used to sit down with my grandma and we’d watch The Dukes of Hazzard  and watch Waylon Jennings decide that guitar — I had no thought who Waylon Jennings was, however I simply fell in love with that. I grew up listening to that 70s nation and he or she beloved all of the outdated stuff, just like the 50s and 60s and even within the 70s, even, , Janice [Joplin] and all that. She actually launched me so much into music after I was a bit of child. I simply sort of held on to it, however by no means pursued it the best way I ought to.”

Watch the complete interview clip beneath.