Mostly, they pull the same bullshit: flags, rah-rah, "We're a band yay," etc. Except this time they really fuck up the song by going super racist. Remember when Springsteen sang "yellow man"? He did so from the perspective of an old soldier who was raised to think of them that way, but who now realizes what a mistake he made. Hell, his Army buddy fell in love with a Vietnamese woman; how bad can they be?
Flatts? They change the line to "towel man." And they don't fucking feel bad about it at ALL. And neither does the crowd, who goes crazy for that line and probably voted for Donald Trump once and will eagerly do so in November if the Apocalypse truly insists on arriving.
And here I thought "Life Is A Highway" was the worst thing these assholes ever did.
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Quick note to fellow white people, not that it's sunk in the first million times you've heard it: Just because you think you know what minorities go through, doesn't mean you do. It's the difference between thinking it sure must suck to get punched in the face, versus actually being punched in the face. Every day. For the rest of your life. While everybody around you denies it ever happened, while accusing you of trying to start drama over some face-punching epidemic that's all in your head. You damn face-punched justice warrior.