It's kind of funny because when i first heard the song, it immediately made me think about this one which was pushed for a little while as an "american nationalist" anthem, "We Will Have Our Home Again" by The Pine Tree Riots:
The reason it reminded me of it is because it is fundamentally a song that is complaining about how bad things are, almost wallowing in it. It's the same with that movie "Falling Down", which is entirely a mockery of people who are despairing at how bad things are getting, and shoving it in their face that "yeah your america is gone. it's going to get worse too. what are you going to do about it? Go vigilante and get killed for your efforts, and your daughter won't even be told? lololol"
It's the same spell. Owen's take is similar it seems, he says it is a "slave song" designed to help people accept bad things.
In his analysis, Owen's take is that this guy oliver anthony is constructed based on market analysis. People want authenticity these days. So they create a character who is meant to be "authentic", to appeal to that demographic.
(Slight sidebar, Pippa's audience is perfect for this as well. Authenticity is one of the traits that I have heard many people say makes her appealing to them.)
This character can't be actually authentic though, it has to be a mimicry, it has to be fake, because it has to propel the right messages - in this case, part of that is apparently "diversity is our strength". Pippa was wrong in her comments saying that it was just a phrase people latched onto because it triggered them or whatever. He elaborates in his interview which she showed on stream that he genuinely meant it.
Owen's argument is that an authentic man coming from the position of the character Oliver Anthony presents in his song could not believe and promote diversity as a core value, because it is the cause of most of the things he is complaining about in his lyrics.
Pippa says "well he just has different politics than you, he isn't a racist like you are".
The only logical way in which that is true is if the man is an idiot.
Naturally we may conclude that Pippa believes this man is an idiot.
Which, you know, maybe there's something to that theory. He says in the fox interview on the video that he wants people to come together and stop being mean about our differences, and he wants to put out something positive to make people's lives better because of all the bad stuff thats put out in the media.
So he writes a song that's literally all about how terrible everything is, and specifically mocks obese people living on welfare in it. He sings about "selling his soul" for money, which is pretty desperate sounding, and then claims to have turned down an $8 million music deal.