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[–] Kecessa 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Punk musicians be like "Music is apolitical???"

Shitty pop music has never been political.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Eh, there’s some pretty famous examples of pop music being political. Weirdly, the most recent example I can think of off the top of my head is Green Day’s American Idiot, which had a couple tracks that were pretty political. I will say that it’s probably been a straight decline in pop music being political since the ‘60s.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I thought green day was a punk rock band. Like the offspring.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Both are pop punk in my book. Green Day are pretty mainstream by the time you get to 2004

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Punk rock =/= pop punk

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

American Idiot will be 20 years old when September comes.

[–] profoundninja 8 points 7 months ago

Wake me up when it ends.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Punk hasn't been mainstream in decades. "An era of apolitical music" sounds pretty accurate for today's world tbh.