It’s not the kind of song you can just ignore and tune out.
“Eighteen naked cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch! Big, hard, throbbing cocks wanting to be sucked!”
That’s just a sampling of “Ram Ranch,” a track that Toronto-based recording artist Grant MacDonald wrote in 2012 and that’s being made relevant again thanks to its adoption by counter protesters who are using it to disrupt communications between those participating in the ongoing Freedom Convoy.
The hashtag #RamRanchResistance began popping up on Twitter earlier this month, along with clips and screenshots of people seeding the song into conversations on the push-to-talk, walkie-talkie-style app, Zello—which is a go-to for convoy protesters.
The raunchy tune is being used to disrupt the digital communications held by the convoy “freedom” supporters and they really don’t seem to like it. According to one woman who Rolling Stone spoke with, the pro convoy folks get “extremely angry because it’s an explicit and LGBTQ-friendly song.”
Stylistically, “Ram Ranch” is a semi truck-length away from pornogrind, a sex-obsessed subgenre of grindcore, which is a blend of metal, punk, and screaming.
MacDonald isn’t screaming here. His delivery is clear and easily understood. “Orgy in the showers at Ram Ranch! Big, hard throbbing cocks ramming cowboy butt! Like a breed of ram wanting to rut!”
The enunciation is intentional, as the song was originally written as a statement on the prevalence of homophobia in Nashville, Tennessee, where cowboy culture reigns supreme.
MacDonald posted the song to YouTube in 2017 and has garnered over 20 million views since. He’s also written more than 540 other versions of the song, a select few of which you can find on his channel.
“I’m just elated, totally elated that my song could be used to stand up for science,” MacDonald told Rolling Stone, commenting on its resurgence.
A new website Ram-ranch.ca, also inspired by the song, has also recently appeared online and is acting as a resource for counter protests.
