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Oliver Anthony: uncertainty

20 May 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

“Sometimes it’s a phrase, like one thing I will do is, especially out in the country, people say the craziest things, and so sometimes I’ll jot down a little bit of… I will sometimes on my phone take a little note, if somebody says something real crazy that I’ve never heard before, and then maybe one day it’ll just pop in my head, like, oh… I don’t know.”

— Oliver Anthony

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Speaker
Oliver Anthony
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uncertainty
Recorded
20 May 2025
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Well, the words or the music or the melody, what pops into your head? The emotion, I guess, the words. Sometimes it’s a phrase, like one thing I will do is, especially out in the country, people say the craziest things, and so sometimes I’ll jot down a little bit of… I will sometimes on my phone take a little note, if somebody says something real crazy that I’ve never heard before, and then maybe one day it’ll just pop in my head, like, oh… I don’t know. It’s very random though. I don’t sit and just try to write songs, that’s why I haven’t just been dumping out, even though I have been writing a lot of songs, I haven’t just been dumping out all this crazy music. I don’t want to force it, I don’t want to do truck, beer, girl songs. I don’t want to force songs, I don’t want to like… Do you have any truck, beer, girl songs? Because that would be an interesting-…

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