Rich Men North of Richmond

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Another day, another musician telling right-wing d-bags to stop misappropriating his songs.  I will say this is as least less bass akwards than Trump coming out to CCR's Fortunate Son.

Shameless self promotion, but 10+ years ago I was in a band and we did a song called "Happy Dog" which I wrote as a snarky sort of joke about my buddy's parent's anxiety-riddled jack russel terrier.  A few years ago I started getting royalty checks out of nowhere (nothing huge, but enough that Uncle Sam gets a yearly cut) because tik tok and Instagram is full of reels or whatever they are called where people put the song clip on happy videos of their dogs. There is even a photo slide show of what looks like a girls dog-theme birthday party with the song clip over it.  The lyrics from the clip go:

He's a happy dog (bark bark bark)
He's a happy dog (bark bark bark)
He's a happy dog the kind you might wanna keep.

He's a happy dog (bark bark bark)
He's a happy dog (bark bark bark)
So let's cut off his nuts and in 10 years we'll put him to sleep


It's a bouncy and fun joke song, but I'll say the most validating thing of all is that of all the songs I've written and recorded this one that took 5 minutes to write as a joke is the only one anyone cares about, and people completely misinterpret it and can't be arsed to look beyond the title.  It's glorious.  Ocasationally someone in the comments section will say something like "WTF, did they say at the end?"

Hopefully the RNC decides it totally defines the anti-trans movement or something.