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Toby Keith - Stomach Cancer

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He's nearly unrecognizable.

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Why?

Keith is a devisive figure.

He singlehandedly hurt the career of the Dixie Chick's with his political bullshit.
Screw him.
That's a pretty naive take. Natalie fired the first shots in 2002 about Toby's song Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (the song he wrote after the death of Keith's veteran father and the September 11, 2001 attacks). She publicly went on the offense by calling the song, "...ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant" "I hate it!"

The following year she made public comments about the President while in another country on tour. After that it just got petty and stupid between BOTH of them (yes, both sides). Toby started displaying a fake photo of her next to Saddam Hussein at his concerts while Natalie was out wearing a t-shirt with the letters "F.U.T.K.". Heck, she wore that onstage at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Natalie clearly didn't understand her audience. I've commented on here before that Toby was one of the first to really to understand his base and milk it for all it's worth.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with Toby, just that he's not "singlehandedly" responsible for the demise of the Dixie Chicks.
 
Amazing to contrast how the left handled the beginning of this thread vs. How the right handled the start of the Feinstein thread.

One is a political figure....the other a cultural one.

Lets make all kinds of random comparisons. Shall we?
 
That's a pretty naive take. Natalie fired the first shots in 2002 about Toby's song Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (the song he wrote after the death of Keith's veteran father and the September 11, 2001 attacks). She publicly went on the offense by calling the song, "...ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant" "I hate it!"

The following year she made public comments about the President while in another country on tour. After that it just got petty and stupid between BOTH of them (yes, both sides). Toby started displaying a fake photo of her next to Saddam Hussein at his concerts while Natalie was out wearing a t-shirt with the letters "F.U.T.K.". Heck, she wore that onstage at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Natalie clearly didn't understand her audience. I've commented on here before that Toby was one of the first to really to understand his base and milk it for all it's worth.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with Toby, just that he's not "singlehandedly" responsible for the demise of the Dixie Chicks.
Look at Pearl Jam or U2. They both have significantly stepped down on the political causes over the years. Or at least been way less vocal about them. Once you've gotten a taste of the crazy wealth u want to keep it
 
I tried looking at his albums to find the song I had the greatest 2 minutes of my life on my dorm room floor.

Nothing looks familiar.

Now I'm thinking it wasn't Toby Keith.

I may have lost my virginity to a different man.
My guess is u lost it to different men.
 
What makes you guys think he is a trumpster? I've never seen him make any comments indicating such; most of the public comments he's made are fairly neutral and indicate he doesn't think highly of the choices our two major parties have put up the last couple of elections
 
The guy I used to work for LOOOVED Toby Kieth. Every time we were in Vegas for trade shows we ate dinner at the Toby Keith bar every. single. night. Anyway, that's my Toby Kieth memory.
 
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What makes you guys think he is a trumpster? I've never seen him make any comments indicating such; most of the public comments he's made are fairly neutral and indicate he doesn't think highly of the choices our two major parties have put up the last couple of elections
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What makes you guys think he is a trumpster? I've never seen him make any comments indicating such; most of the public comments he's made are fairly neutral and indicate he doesn't think highly of the choices our two major parties have put up the last couple of elections
You know it doesn’t even matter. He’s a person first and he’s going through something terrible. He’s got money and fame, sure. But even if he doesn’t align with you politically I don’t recall him being a monster, not that I know the man. We’re all vulnerable in the end
 
I don't care about his politics. It gets exhausting worrying about entertainers' politics when judging their creative content. And I do like some of his music. But I always thought he had to be a pretty insecure guy to use his fame and talent writing a song rubbing his success in the face of some girl that he apparently held a grudge against because he had a crush on her in high school and she didn't reciprocate it. I'm assuming that "How Do You Like Me Now?" is autobiographical, and every time I hear it I think how pathetic it is for a grown man to still be butt hurt because some girl in high school that he liked didn't like him back.
 
Amazing to contrast how the left handled the beginning of this thread vs. How the right handled the start of the Feinstein thread.
Amazing how when you posted this, there was only 1 "left" poster that said something shitty, yet you make it sound like they were all piling on.


With that said, I don't know anything about ol Toby Keith, not a country music fan. But I do know cancer sucks, so that's shitty. Had a friend pass away in 2020 from stomach cancer. It's not good.
 
I don't care about his politics. It gets exhausting worrying about entertainers' politics when judging their creative content. And I do like some of his music. But I always thought he had to be a pretty insecure guy to use his fame and talent writing a song rubbing his success in the face of some girl that he apparently held a grudge against because he had a crush on her in high school and she didn't reciprocate it. I'm assuming that "How Do You Like Me Now?" is autobiographical, and every time I hear it I think how pathetic it is for a grown man to still be butt hurt because some girl in high school that he liked didn't like him back.
Dude, you just described the source material for half of the albums in circulation; Jagged Little Pill, all of Taylor Swifts songs, etc.
 
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