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Kid Rock conservatism

23 November 2021

4:24 PM

23 November 2021

4:24 PM

Kid Rock feels like he emerged from a time capsule left for us in the ’90s, perhaps along with Dunkaroos and the decaying corpses of the Simpsons, who were replaced with inferior clones around the dawn of the millennium.

In those heady days of nu-metal, Jackass and the Attitude Era, bored suburbanites and neglected “rednecks” unleashed their frustrations into jubilantly crass and confrontational entertainment that turned the raising of a middle finger into a kind of sacred ritual.

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