Oliver Anthony, the singer of viral hit ‘Wealthy Males North Of Richmond’, has hit out at each these on the left and proper for “weaponising” his music.

Launched on August 8, the music has since hit Quantity One on the iTunes Nation Charts, soared to the highest spot on Apple Music’s International Music Charts, and racked up over 32million views on YouTube.

It then made chart historical past by debuting at Quantity One on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, making Anthony – a former manufacturing unit employee and farmer – the primary artist to take action with none prior chart historical past.

Upon its launch, ‘Wealthy Males…’ was praised by numerous right-wing media figures together with Dan Bongino and Matt Walsh. Republication consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene, in the meantime, described it as “the anthem of the forgotten Individuals who actually help this nation and sadly the world”.

However different folks have criticised the one for being “fatphobic” and labelled it a “right-wing anthem”.

Now, Anthony has launched a video assertion through which he hits out at these on each side of the political divide for his or her opinions on the music and its that means.

The assertion got here after Republican Occasion members talked about it at a presidential debate this week (August 23).

“It was humorous seeing it on the presidential debate, as a result of it’s like I wrote that music about these folks,” he stated. “So for them to have to take a seat there and take heed to that, that cracks me up. It was humorous form of seeing the response to it.”

He added: “[The song] has nothing to do with Joe Biden. It’s rather a lot greater than Joe Biden. That music was written concerning the folks on that stage, and much more too, not simply them, however positively them.

“I do hate seeing that music being weaponised, like I see the best making an attempt to characterise me as one among their very own. And I see the left making an attempt to discredit me, I suppose in retaliation. That shit’s obtained to cease.”

Anthony went on to say that “when you take heed to my different music, it’s apparent that every one of my songs that reference class defend the poor,” claiming that “there could some folks” on the left “who misunderstood my phrases”.

In a press release on social media (through the Guardian), Anthony stated he wasn’t speeding into signing a document deal simply but following the hit music.

“Individuals within the music trade give me clean stares once I brush off eight million greenback affords,” he defined. “I don’t need six tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don’t wish to play stadium reveals, I don’t wish to be within the highlight.

“I wrote the music I wrote as a result of I used to be struggling with psychological well being and melancholy. These songs have linked with hundreds of thousands of individuals on such a deep degree as a result of they’re being sung by somebody feeling the phrases within the very second they have been being sung.”