I am also very suspicious of marginal/questionable talent getting huge and rich seemingly out of nowhere. At the same time, I'm hopeful that there are still performers whose talent is so superiour that they can ascend without being part of the H-wood pedo death cult.
Been thinking about Chris Stapleton a bit lately. He is an amazing talent, and comes across as a decent family man who hasn’t gone full Hollywood (at least yet). I became disillusioned with him after it was widely reported that he supported BLM in the heat of the G. Floyd shitstorm.
That said, I decided to look a little closer to what he actually said, and a slightly different picture emerged.
"Do I think Black lives matter? Absolutely … I don't know how you could think they don't," Stapleton said at the time." This statement is a far cry from support for the marxist organization of BLM. Unless you flat-out hate black people, it was a fairly decent and human thing to say, and I honestly don’t find much to disagree with in this statement.
Also: “There's a very broad awakening that I guess has come about, and it's time for me to listen. And it's time for other folks to listen." Hmmm - interesting way for him to put it.
And this: "You know, I thought we were living in a different country. And that's 100-percent real," the singer admits. "I feel like the country that I thought that we were living in was a myth."
I believe he carefully chose his words here, and as a very public person in the entertainment world, I think he had to be cautious and deliberate. Of course the music trade rags all heard each of these statements as blind, full-throated and unquestioning support for the marxist BLM organization which they love. And that’s what they parroted in the publication of this story. They heard what they wanted to hear. I just heard something a little different and I'm reevaluating.
https://www.distractify.com/p/chris-stapleton-politics