Just The News: Country music star John Rich said Friday that “extremely liberal people” run the music industry, which prevents conservative country music artists from discussing their views.
Appearing on the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show to discuss the release of his new single, “Progress,” Rich explained his thinking behind writing the song, which he debuted on Truth Social and has since topped the Apple charts.
“Listen, it was so ironic to me to look around our country and see all these terrible things that are happening to everybody,” he recounted, “and realize that it’s being done under the banner of the word ‘progress,’ because it’s anything but progress.
“But as we’ve learned, a lot of times they like to invert these words and turn it into something that it’s absolutely not meant to be. Progress is one of those words, in my opinion.
“So as a songwriter, I was thinking about that, and I went, ‘Man, nobody’s gonna write this song because nobody would ever play it at radio, and the music industry is not ever going to allow any other artists to put it out. But it just so happens that I am no longer involved in the music industry on that level. more