Sam Fender has put a very fat in the United Kingdom, just in the week he will conquer the lists with his new album ‘People Watching’ with spectacular figures. It will sell more than 100,000 copies in this first week: direct gold disc, a true barbarity in these times. He already has a place between the best -selling of all 2025 and also Alexis Petridis of The Guardian has given him the 5 stars.
In these, he has given an interview with The Sunday Times who is going around the world, for his opinion on the origin of the popularity of ultra -right leaders like Andrew Tate. In his opinion, the problem is that there is too much talk of “white man privileges” and very little “classes” is being talked about, which leads to a sector of the population already helpless to feel more homeless even.
He said: «We are very good to talk about privileges of man, white, hetero. But we rarely talk about classes ». And he continues: «That is the reason why young children are being seduced by demagogues and psychopaths like Andrew Tate. They are ashamed all the time to be who they are and make them feel that they are a problem. That is the narrative that white boys from lost cities receive. Do people make a sermon to a Durham kid who is screwed and tells him that he is a privileged? Well, Tate is going to tell that kid that he is worth it. It is an attractive narrative ».
The Anglo -Saxon media are filled with opinion columns about the words of artist number 1 right now in the United Kingdom. While some voices point out that it was time for this debate to come out, while Elon Musk billionaires are already dominating the world, Dazed has written a column with arguments for and against, citing several sociological studies.
In Dazed they emphasize that Sam Fender is not right in one thing: misogynist ultra -right speeches do not proceed or fit especially in the working class. Misoginia is transversal, it is not associable to the lower classes: for example, a study of a website assured that, when culture of rape and sexual harassment is spoken, it becomes 8 times more associated with private schools than to public schools. Serena Smith’s text also wonders what the “working class” is in 2025, if such a term continues to attend to Marxist terminology, or not.
On the other hand, the columnist believes that Sam Fender is right when he says that the “white kids of lost cities” have been ignored by the politicians during the years, and their vulnerability “is being used by the extreme right and people like Andrew Tate.”
If you wonder what Sam Fender’s music sounds, not so popular in these parts, the answer is simple: exactly Bruce Springsteen, the great leader of the US working class during the 80s.
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