• i_cant_sports@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ignoring the whole welfare lyric for a moment, I think this experience ended up being a hard lesson for this young songwriter.

    To borrow a line from Bluey - “…when you put something beautiful out into the world, it’s no longer yours, really.”

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        1 year ago

        Who knows what his experiences are. Even working at a grocery store, you don’t remember most of the people using EBT. You remember a lady buying only high end meat with the card and getting into an Escalade.

        I think fraud is just one of the costs of helping peeps, but I understand how frustrating it can be to have to watch your spending and witness that. Confirmation bias takes over and you don’t remember the poor people buying staples.

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      People need to remember that this guy did not have a lot of success before this song. It’s a breakout hit from an unknown artist