'Rich Men North of Richmond'
Updated: The hit song has political significance
Oliver Anthony from semi-rural Farmville, Virginia is having a moment, with his viral music video, "Rich Men North of Richmond." It was uploaded to YouTube on August 8, and became an immediate hit, shooting to the top of the Billboard charts, with as of this writing, 56 million views, and hundreds of thousands more for his other versions of the song. In…
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