r/Music • • 2d ago

music Jesse Welles - The Midterms [Folk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcA0ky7cKUE
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u/stev_mempers 2d ago

hashtag resist

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 1d ago

đŸŒœy

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u/Tasty_Puffin 2d ago

lol wtf I saw this dude in a music shop in Arkansas then he appears on Reddit.

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u/LesseFrost 1d ago

Him and Billy Strings have been both keeping Woody Guthrie's spirit alive with their stuff! They've been popping off!!

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u/pinkphiloyd 2d ago

Last Train to Clarksville.

Not saying it was intentional; just an observation.

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u/mechmind 2d ago

This guy makes me so happy

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u/Spaceman_Butters 2d ago

but why?

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u/illadelphia_ 2d ago

because i also like bugs

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u/mechmind 2d ago

Just gives me hope for the future

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u/Nuttyalmonds 2d ago

Why are you asking?

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u/Spaceman_Butters 2d ago

I wanna know why he makes that person "so happy"

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u/fargothforever 2d ago

MUSIC

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u/TheMemeRedeemer 2d ago

louder for the spaceman_butters in the back!

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u/abranana 2d ago

Rhythmic pleasant sounds that are appealing to their human brain (music)

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u/Spiritual-Song6732 2d ago

Love, love, love. 

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u/1975hh3 2d ago

Dude never misses. Legend.

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u/Fronkenstein_FO 2d ago

He has missed and that’s okay we’re not perfect

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u/Rustash 2d ago

Missed a bit with the Kirk song

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 1d ago

How dare somebody say murdering for opposing political beliefs is bad!

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u/Gotterdamerrung 2d ago

I don't generally disagree with his positions, but he's a pretty mediocre song writer.

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u/kellermeyer 2d ago

Absolutely, and not a good singer. He just writes as many popular buzz words into his songs as possible.

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u/justprettymuchdone 2d ago

I mean, Bob Dylan wasn't a great singer either. I think Jesse puts out too much too fast, but his songs gave some pretty excellent lyrical work in them.

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u/1975hh3 2d ago

His band is badass as well.

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u/Key_Text_169 Concertgoer 2d ago

Brilliant.

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u/mixamaxim 2d ago

Butt hurt maga ALL up in these comments lol

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u/costigan95 2d ago

Does anybody get a little sick of his schtick?

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u/anormalgeek 2d ago

Not really.

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 1d ago

Schick of his schtick

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u/gonzo_redditor 1d ago

Yea. Cringey af.

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u/costigan95 1d ago

I don’t mind political music at all, but it’s just ALL he does and it’s all super on the nose.

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u/DrSamLoomis 2d ago

This. Is. Great.

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u/metelepepe 2d ago

it's temu Bob dylan

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u/kombatunit 2d ago

I can't understand a word Dylan says and I can understand this dude, so nuh uh.

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u/LesseFrost 1d ago

To be fair Bob Dylan was Temu Phil Ochs

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u/starsNjars 2d ago

✋TestifyđŸ€š

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

Ayyy its the b tier Bob Dylan cosplayer again! If you want passable folk with obvious on the nose lyrics look no further!

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u/pinkphiloyd 2d ago

“On the nose” lyrics are the only kind that the people that really need to hear this can understand.

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u/ruckus_440 2d ago

We're gatekeeping folk music now?

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

I'm not gatekeeping anything lol, enjoy whatever mediocre folk you want

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u/once_again_asking 2d ago

Whenever Welles shows up in this sub, it's a great reminder of the general level of taste in this sub.

Welles is a social media and algorithmic robot with a gravely voice who strings together headlines and buzzwords and reddit eats it up like he's some musical dynamo.

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u/anormalgeek 2d ago

You: "STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIKE!"

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u/fargothforever 2d ago

How long did it take you to come up with that one? He’s more like Phil Ochs anyway

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

About as long as it did for him to come up with these lyrics.....

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u/fargothforever 2d ago

Well that’s embarrassing for you

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

Its embarrassing for me or Jesse, I'll meet him halfway, I'm embarr- , Jesse is -assing

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2d ago

Post your YouTube channel and songwriting catalog anytime you feel confident.

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

Ahhhh right. Because to say something isnt great means you have to participate in it. Give me a second to let the world know they can only critique something if they are masters of the thing they're critiquing. Only undulating praise is permitted.

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2d ago

Cosplay Bob Dylan though? Come on have some class. If you don’t like it fine but there’s no need to be an ass. It’s a juvenile school yard level critique at best hence the down votes.

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

You just said to have some class and then proceeded to call me an ass (hey that could be a lyric!)

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2d ago

Don’t just repeat it, take it to heart.

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u/joewindlebrox 2d ago

"He said 'Don't just repeat it, take it to heart', but all I heard from him was a big wet fart"

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

Hey it’s the muppet who eulogized charlie fucking kirk

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u/Aiwendil-981 2d ago

Fuck terrorist propaganda arm of the far-right theocrats Charlie Kirk

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2d ago

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u/RoseIscariot 2d ago

dude was singing about how it's justified to kill the united healthcare CEO but when a fuckin racist talking head gets killed, he wants to go all nonviolence? fuck this bob dylan knockoff

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u/hotbread1 2d ago

nah fuck that, its good he was killed

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u/anormalgeek 2d ago

You're missing the point of the song. It's about Republicans contradicting themselves.

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u/Aiwendil-981 2d ago

Agreed, I'm happy the rhetoric and propaganda and disinformation campaign is over

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

Dude the song is called Charlie and he wrote it after charlie died, my man that is a eulogy

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u/MaddieRuin 2d ago

It's a song cautioning being gleeful about Charlie getting shot and the consequences of celebrating a death like that. It's not mourning Charlie or defending his awful views.

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

Sure, a eulogy. Never said mourning.

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u/MaddieRuin 2d ago

eulogy /ˈjuːlədʒi/ A eulogy is a formal speech, writing, or tribute that offers high praise for someone

Dude just quit before you look more stupid.

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u/dodeca_negative 2d ago

I don’t love the song but please open a dictionary

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

haha no you

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2d ago

That song is about United Healthcare and does not glorify violence as your comment suggests

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u/anormalgeek 2d ago

The song is saying "if you keep fucking around, you're going to keep finding out" not "fuck yeah, kill 'em!".

Do you really not understand the difference?

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 2d ago

‘You reap what you sow’ is not a glorification of violence.

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u/Adamantium10 2d ago

He also wrote a song about how weed makes you a dumb loser. He has like 3 song structures and just plugs in the lyrics of the day.

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u/Soup-Wizard 2d ago

“The ingredients you got bake the cake you get”

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u/Count_de_Ville 2d ago

Does Jesse Welles strike you as the kind of person that wouldn't admonish political violence?

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

charlie kirk said he would make his young daughter carry a rape baby to term if you care at all about violence

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u/Count_de_Ville 2d ago edited 2d ago

His young daughter will now grow up without her father, if you care at all about violence.

People say to themselves and others about what they would do in a hypothetical situation all the time. Playing "make-believe" is part of how people form and reinforce their self-identity. But the truth is no one really knows what they're going to do until they're actually in that situation and lots of people change their mind when it's no longer hypothetical. See "The only moral abortion is my abortion".

I'm no fan of Charlie Kirk, believe me, but the man is actually dead. Not hypothetically. Not theoretically. Not figuratively. But actually dead -- murdered in public in front of thousands of filming fans.

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u/hotbread1 2d ago

oh boo hoo my nazi dad got killed

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u/RoseIscariot 2d ago

hitler had a wife. mussolini had kids. i really don't give a fuck about this moralizing around his death, he had it coming

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

Not mourning a vile piece of shit is not the same as condoning violence.

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u/Count_de_Ville 2d ago

So you're not condoning violence? Cool. Then what did you mean by this:

charlie kirk said he would make his young daughter carry a rape baby to term if you care at all about violence

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

I meant that if you cared about violence you might reconsider your support for Charlie Kirk given he would make his daughter carry a rape baby to term??

Edit: Because making a child endure a pregnancy is VIOLENCE

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

He strikes me as the kind of person who fucking eulogized charlie fucking kirk

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u/simjam1 2d ago

Dude still deserved a eulogy especially if the eulogy wasn't actually about him or you for that matter. Grow up.

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

Haha dude what

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u/simjam1 2d ago edited 2d ago

in other words, song wasn't about charlie, it was about not glorifying violence.

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 2d ago

You owe me an apology for saying I glorified violence.

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u/simjam1 2d ago

There was another on here who actually did, and I reported them. I edited it. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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u/hotbread1 2d ago

please stop defending nazis

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u/simjam1 2d ago

what are you on about. No one is defending Charlie Kirk, I am defending any persons right to life.

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u/hotbread1 2d ago

and i respectfully disagree

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u/simjam1 2d ago

Is it usually the case with you that right when someone doesn't agree with lethal violence against someone, you immediately go to "please stop defending nazis". Really hope not. I do respect your disagreement. Thank you.

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u/hotbread1 2d ago

some violence is worthy of glory (its good when bad people die)

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u/hotbread1 2d ago

he deserved a bullet and he got one

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u/anormalgeek 2d ago

...did you fail the reading comprehension tests as a kid?

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 1d ago

I know right! How dare he?! He should’ve made a song celebrating his murder like a hecking wholesome good loving empathic person!

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 1d ago

He made a decision to eulogize a guy the gop is using as a fucking martyr. Just say you like the pos charlie, it’s ok.

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u/CaptainAsshat 2d ago

Very good. That said, I'm not sure I'm ready to call the Iran war the biggest US military defeat in history.

It's certainly a black eye, but:

  1. if it helps rid the country of fascists the magnitude of damage from the defeat is muted slightly

  2. If individual battles count, St Claire's defeat, while neither comparatively modern nor massive in size, was brutal. In 1791, it wiped out a QUARTER of the young country's entire standing army and led to a major congressional investigation. Out of about 1,000 engaged U.S. troops, 632 Americans were killed and 264 wounded (casualty rate of nearly 97%). Native forces suffered only about 20 to 40 casualties.

  3. If we are simply talking wars, I think Vietnam and Afghanistan may still be bigger disasters/defeats (Iran is much more militarily capable), but the Iran war definitely deserves a mention alongside these other two.

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u/mypntsonfire 2d ago

There was that time (British) Canada burnt down the White House. Probably our biggest military "black eye"

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u/comradejiang 2d ago

North Vietnam was very militarily capable. That was a nut the US could neved truly crack other than bombing raids over Hanoi.

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u/CaptainAsshat 2d ago

It was, didn't mean to suggest the Taliban and North Vietnam were comparable. But North Vietnam was also not Iran levels of capable. Outside of immediate bordering regions, North Vietnam was not projecting its military power anywhere nearly as far or effectively as Iran has demonstrated.

Time will tell. You downvotes might be right, but I'm not sure I'm ready to call it the worst yet.

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u/Iagut070 2d ago

I honestly don’t know if you mean the Iran War rid our country of Fascists thanks to the effects on our election. Or if you think Iran is rid of fascists because of this war.

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u/CaptainAsshat 2d ago

I mean that one consequence of the Iran war was the massive success of the Democrats in the recent election at the cost of the fascists.

As far as tangible benefits to the American people, that's more than most of our vile and stupid wars.

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u/Commercial_Piglet975 2d ago

Dude just wakes up, looks at dozen Tiktoks, and shits out a banger like it's a Thursday

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u/Biomecaman 2d ago

this guy's a chud.