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I mean, you can fill a book with stories of the Right not getting music.
There was Paul Ryan thinking Rage Against the Machine was on his side.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-246033/
And Heart sued Sarah Palin to get her to stop playing their stuff.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/heart-to-sarah-palin-dont-play-barracuda
But they'll always have the ultra relevant Kid Rock.
This is a feature of the right. The Nazis couldn't create anything artistic, they had to steal from ~~Buddhism~~ Hinduism and the Roman Empire. They lack imagination, which I'm sure is linked to their lack of empathy, and they suppress the counter-culture, which is where art comes from. They fundamentally lack the ability to critically think, which is required for understanding art. The USSR, an authoritarian but (at least in theory) leftist society, produced a LOT of art that's pretty good.
It's also the same reason why they think "jokes" are just a way to make fun of someone and they can't fight back because it's "a joke", and they think that's what jokes are for. They lack the cognitive ability to parse out cleverness and only understand the subversion of expectation part.
If they could think deeply about things, they wouldn't be conservatives.
Oh you're right, sorry, I stand corrected. But you get the idea.
All good. Here's the context and some neat etymological exploration of that topic.