At first, I wasn't sure exactly what comedian Tim Dillon's precise definition of a fake country music fan was. Then I came to understand that Dillon used the platform he has on The Tim Dillon Show to go off on "new country music fans who've latched on to country music like some kind of Republican dog whistle," per Whiskey Riff.
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American Songwriter analyzed his critical stance like this. "With stars like Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll expanding the genre, country music welcomed countless new fans. But according to Dillon, the expansion featured a great deal of fakers."
Let's take a deeper dive into portions of what Dillon actually said.
Tim Dillon Evidently Perceives A Cultural Disconnect Between Affluent People And Their Sudden Professed Love Of Country Music
Dillon Reportedly Feels That Folks Latching Onto Country Music For Inauthentic Reasons Is 'Disgusting'
Tim Dillon said per the outlet, "Since we've gone to war, every white person is a massive fan of country music somehow, because country music was the only place over the last 4 years of craziness that welcomed Whitey. So now everyone I know, whether they're from Greenwich, Connecticut, they are LARPing as a huge fan of country music and it's disgusting...."
Just to clarify, Greenwich, Connecticut is a very, very wealthy place. LARP means live action role playing.
Dillon Kept On Going
He Chastized Pretend Cowboys Feigning Love for Country Music And The Country Lifestyle; In His Opinion, It's Just An Affectation
Dillon added, "...There's something weird about the the white culture that isn't functional. And there's something about when, when white people start to get confused and start like pretending they're like ranchers. Like people do it in California. There is no cowboys in California. Okay, take your ironic cowboy hat off in Malibu, it doesn't exist...."
Whiskey Riff mentioned that, "He [Dillon] ain't wrong... I mean, there's definitely cowboys and ranchers in California, a lot of them actually, but Tim later clarified that he was referring to areas like Los Angeles and Malibu."
This is probably not the last we'll hear about the existence of so-called phony country music fans.
