Oliver Anthony didn’t maintain again when he performed on the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee again in February of 2024… and it evidently value him his administration firm.
Life has been a whirlwind for the Virginia native ever since he launched his debut single, “Wealthy Males North of Richmond,” again in 2023. The video of his in-the-woods efficiency was initially uploaded to YouTube and shortly went viral, racking up hundreds of thousands upon hundreds of thousands of views earlier than Anthony was even in a position to launch the music on streaming platforms.
Now, a few years and over 300 million streams later, Oliver Anthony remains to be making his approach by means of the music trade, proving mistaken people who mentioned he’d have simply quarter-hour of fame following his viral hit. And it was truly the success of “Wealthy Males North of Richmond” which have given the artist the pliability to do as he needs in terms of his music.
How? Nicely does an $800,000 royalty examine due to the music reply your query? And that was simply the primary one…
Although an virtually $1 million examine proper off the bat is fairly good, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows within the weeks and months after he rose to fame seemingly in a single day. Whereas on The Joe Rogan Expertise, Anthony spoke about his two-night run of live shows on the Ryman Auditorium again in 2024… and the way one thing he mentioned on stage ended up costing him quite a lot of his Music Metropolis connections:
“I had folks in Nashville stop working with me as a result of I talked about (politics) once I was on the Ryman. We had this chick who performs the fiddle and does flat dancing and stuff named Hillary Klug, who lives in Nashville.
We had her come to the Ryman to do the present with us and it was on a final minute factor and I’m about to introduce her and I inform the gang, ‘Hey, I’ve obtained Hillary about to return out… however don’t fear, it’s not that Hillary.’”
However that wasn’t the factor that led to Oliver Anthony’s administration firm dropping him.
The “I Need To Go House” singer apparently piggybacked off that jab at Hillary Clinton by getting a bit of bit deeper into politics. He says that somebody within the crowd that night time shouted one thing, which sparked him to enter a rant that crossed the road within the eyes of those that he was working with:
“Any person mentioned one thing within the crowd, and I don’t know, I simply work together and I simply say what involves thoughts. I don’t care about all that stuff and what folks may assume. I simply attempt to say what I really feel. However I used to be like, ‘Isn’t it loopy that anyone like Hillary, who not that way back, I can keep in mind vividly being fully towards the concept of getting two folks of the identical gender be married?’”
Anthony explains that he made one other remark about folks like Hillary being okay with youngsters changing into transgender, and associated it to politics, in his thoughts, being all theatrics and centered on what’s going to promote. Even Joe Rogan was a bit of shocked that the singer-songwriter went there throughout his efficiency on the Mom Church, asking:
“You mentioned this on the Ryman?”
Hey… saying one thing that shocks Joe Rogan is fairly spectacular.
Oliver Anthony isn’t feeling remorseful about it although. He went on to verify that he did say these issues whereas on stage, and that it led to many individuals he was working with (particularly in Nashville) virtually instantly reducing ties with him as an artist:
“I mentioned that on the Ryman, and I had my administration firm that I used to be utilizing drop me, and a bunch of different folks (dropped me) with out even telling me. They simply emailed my lawyer and mentioned they couldn’t work with me anymore. They had been that mad about that.”
Luckily, it looks as if any little bit of controversy that got here from his Hillary Clinton feedback was water off a duck’s again for Oliver Anthony. And clearly, he’s nonetheless doing simply effective. His new single “Scornful Lady” is getting a ton of reward, and he’s obtained a brand new album on the best way. Looks as if he didn’t ever really want that administration firm anyhow… he can deal with issues simply effective on his personal.
You possibly can hear extra particulars within the newest episode of The Joe Rogan Expertise:
And take a look at the brand new single, “Scornful Lady,” under:
