Attempting to find a gap in the music marketplace which no one previously realized existed; The Right Brothers have established the genre of conservative rock.
As a type of music rock is particularly ill-suited for promoting right-wing ideology. The truly great rock music has always been about rebellion. Think of the Who’s My Generation or John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance. Now we have The Right Brothers who offer up a tribute to Ann Coulter and an anthem that insist, "Bush was right."
Consider the chorus from I’m In Love With Ann Coulter:
I'm in love with Ann Coulter
All I wanna do is hold her
And have her read her books to me
Just like she does in my dreams
I wonder if she's got a boyfriend
Cause my girlfriend's leaving
She says I'm living in a fantasy
Even she can see it's over
I'm in love with Ann Coulter
On its surface The Right Brothers Coulter tune is merely the creepiest pro-stalker since The Police recorded Wrapped Around Your Finger. But let’s look a little closer. The singer wants Ann Coulter to read her books to him. Is this because he somehow neglected to master that skill under Bush’s No Child Left Behind?
And, dude, not to be malicious or anything but the woman’s Adam’s apple is promionate enough to be considered an orchard.
Moving on to The List, The Right Brothers favor listeners with a group of their least-favorite liberals and/or moderates. Take a look for yourself:
Jimmy Carter and Ward Churchill
Alec Baldwin and James Carvell
Janeane Garafalo and Michael Moore
The Reverend Jesse Jackson and Al Gore
Speaking of stalking, The List seems pretty inflammatory. I can only hope that The Right Brothers (s)hit list doesn’t become some nut jobs hit list. Way to promote reasonable political discourse Right Brothers.
The right-wing rockers’ crowning achievement seems to be Bush Was Right, a defense of all the former Texas governor’s flawed policies:
Freedom in Afghanistan, say goodbye Taliban
Free elections in Iraq, Saddam Hussein locked up
Osamas staying underground, Al Qaida now is finding out
America wont turn and run once the fighting has begun
Libya turns over nukes, Lebanese want freedom, too
Syria is forced to leave, dont you know that all this means
...
Economy is on the rise kicking into overdrive
Angry liberals can't believe it's cause of W's policies
Unemployment's staying down, Democrats are wondering how
Revenue is going up, can you say "Tax Cuts"
Now let’s see, Bush was right in his steadfast determination to stay the course in Iraq. So now that we know that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was pondering alternative policies and now that the President himself has indicated a willingness to grudgingly accept changes in the way the Iraqi war is conducted, that now makes him righter than right?
As for the economy, the low unemployment figures might be attributed to people running out of jobless insurance. Many economists will say that by now, the Bush tax cuts have worked all the magic that they are capable of. And, let’s not forget that this administration turned a budget surplus into a shockingly high deficit.
Lastly, the music in the verses to Bush Was Right sound awfully familiar. Fans of a certain Piano Man who penned We Didn’t Start the Fire will doubtless note the similarity.
In other words this musical assault to the ears, liberal sensibilities and true itself doesn’t even have originality on its side.
In fact one might argue that conservative rock is as bereft of ideas as the neo-conservative movement itself.