Yes, there is a convoy of mandate-opposing truckers and bandwagoning conservatives who have somehow mistaken inconvenience for oppression polluting the streets of the nation's capital — but more importantly, there are 18 naked cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch.
Or so go the lyrics to Canadian musician Grant MacDonald's 2012 for-the-gays country-metal track "Ram Ranch," which has recently become an unlikely counterprotest song for a movement attempting to jam the convoy's communications on Zello — a push-to-talk walkie-talkie app that allows users to use two-way radio channels.
The so-called #RamRanchResistance stemmed from leftists trolling the truckers' Zello channels to get information about their organizing as the convoy had descended on downtown Ottawa with their not-so-peaceful protest, honking their horns and terrorizing the city into a state of emergency.
Out of frustration, people started infiltrating the convoy's channels and playing MacDonald's "Ram Ranch" — you know, for obvious reasons (there's a truck reference in there somewhere). Soon, thrashing guitars were wailing from the truckers' phones, undergirding MacDonald's near-spoken, melodic delivery of lyrics like "Cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch / On their knees, wanting to suck cowboy cocks / Ram Ranch really rocks."
"It's a deeply conservative belief system infiltrating our city," one of the #RamRanchResistance instigators told Rolling Stone. "And when we played this song to jam their communication, they'd get extremely angry because it's an explicit and LGBTQ-friendly song."
Conversely, the artist behind it is thrilled: "I'm just elated, totally elated that my song could be used to stand up for science," MacDonald told the publication, adding that he's seen his streaming numbers climb over the course of the protest.
While the 2012 "Ram Ranch" has been the jam of choice for the resistance, the singer-songwriter has plenty more iterations to choose from, should the convoy tire of the original. As per Rolling Stone, MacDonald has 541 versions in his catalogue, including one that was recorded at his Toronto apartment just yesterday (February 10).
Enjoy the anthem that inspired a movement below.
Or so go the lyrics to Canadian musician Grant MacDonald's 2012 for-the-gays country-metal track "Ram Ranch," which has recently become an unlikely counterprotest song for a movement attempting to jam the convoy's communications on Zello — a push-to-talk walkie-talkie app that allows users to use two-way radio channels.
The so-called #RamRanchResistance stemmed from leftists trolling the truckers' Zello channels to get information about their organizing as the convoy had descended on downtown Ottawa with their not-so-peaceful protest, honking their horns and terrorizing the city into a state of emergency.
Out of frustration, people started infiltrating the convoy's channels and playing MacDonald's "Ram Ranch" — you know, for obvious reasons (there's a truck reference in there somewhere). Soon, thrashing guitars were wailing from the truckers' phones, undergirding MacDonald's near-spoken, melodic delivery of lyrics like "Cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch / On their knees, wanting to suck cowboy cocks / Ram Ranch really rocks."
"It's a deeply conservative belief system infiltrating our city," one of the #RamRanchResistance instigators told Rolling Stone. "And when we played this song to jam their communication, they'd get extremely angry because it's an explicit and LGBTQ-friendly song."
Conversely, the artist behind it is thrilled: "I'm just elated, totally elated that my song could be used to stand up for science," MacDonald told the publication, adding that he's seen his streaming numbers climb over the course of the protest.
While the 2012 "Ram Ranch" has been the jam of choice for the resistance, the singer-songwriter has plenty more iterations to choose from, should the convoy tire of the original. As per Rolling Stone, MacDonald has 541 versions in his catalogue, including one that was recorded at his Toronto apartment just yesterday (February 10).
Enjoy the anthem that inspired a movement below.
