Country Singer Says Comments On His Pro-Gun, Pro-God Anthem Are Getting Throttled On TikTok

Country singer Dylan Marlowe is unsure why TikTok comments on his new song, which includes lyrics about God and guns, are being hidden on the social media platform, but he has his guess.

The 27-year-old recording artist anticipated the song might be controversial when he posted it. He wrote in the social media caption, “This might get censored but whatever, this is one of my favorite songs on the record.”

The video shows Marlowe strumming his guitar while sitting on a porch, singing “Stick to My Guns” from his first studio album, Mid-Twenties Crisis, which will be released on September 27. 

He sings the lyrics, “I’m sick and damn tired of the man on the TV telling me how to live/and it gets a little old when you’re always getting told that you gotta do that and this/turns out there’s a lot of folks that don’t like all the things I love/good thing this ain’t for them folks.”

It continues: “Yeah, this song’s the one where I stick to these boots I’m putting down/stick to this cross around my neck/stick to these roots stuck in the ground/way I was raised ain’t let me down yet/in a world that’s changing I sure as hell ain’t son/so I’ll sit right here with a rifle and a beer ‘til the good Lord comes/stick to my guns.”

In a follow-up post, Marlowe shared his suspicions about what he describes as hidden comments on the song.

“I don’t normally post things like this on TikTok but I posted this video the other day… went to bed, woke up, it said there was like 500 comments on this video. So, I go to check it out, and turns out that over, like, 400 of these comments have been like, disabled. Like, they’re not available to be on the post. And I don’t know why.”

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The singer did not make specific accusations but wrote, “I have my guess” as to why the comments weren’t appearing. He went on to say he contacted TikTok to find out why the comments were disabled and hadn’t received an answer yet. 

As of Wednesday morning, the original song clip was up to almost 200 visible comments. Marlowe’s followers flooded both TikTok clips with their messages of support.

“The reason they aren’t showing up is the exact reason we need songs like this,” one person wrote.

“You have the voice in more than one way. So proud of you, keep going, we’ll keep supporting you!!” another agreed.

The Georgia-born recording artist has opened for big names in country, from Laney Wilson to Hardy, and was signed by Sony Music Nashville. Marlowe’s first number-one hit as a songwriter was Jon Pardi’s single, “Last Night Lonely.”

“Mid-Twenties Crisis is a record I wrote in my mid-twenties, really over the last two or three years,” the artist said during an interview in July of his upcoming album. “There’s a bunch of songs that are going to be fun to play live. I also thought it was really important to make sure I had some deeper lyrics as well.”