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Viral singer Oliver Anthony claims the government won’t ‘save us’
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0:48Now PlayingOliver Anthony, crooner of chart-topping “Rich Men North of Richmond,” believes the government won’t “save us.”
In an interview with the Free Press following the overnight success of his viral so-called blue-collar anthem, the country singer said he hopes his music will inspire listeners to stop relying “on someone 150 or 500 miles away from them to solve their problems.”
“Nobody in Washington, DC, no one in the federal government’s coming to save us,” he said, according to a clip posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
“The people that are going to save us are each other.”
Anthony, who just released a new song Wednesday titled “I Want To Go Home,” claimed that families are “torn apart” due to the influx of technology.
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