Punk musicians be like "Music is apolitical???"
Shitty pop music has never been political.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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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.
I thought green day was a punk rock band. Like the offspring.
Both are pop punk in my book. Green Day are pretty mainstream by the time you get to 2004
Punk rock =/= pop punk
American Idiot will be 20 years old when September comes.
Wake me up when it ends.
Punk hasn't been mainstream in decades. "An era of apolitical music" sounds pretty accurate for today's world tbh.
A new "Rage Against The Machine" has been needed
Or IDk we actually do it this time
I hit my printer with a baseball bat. It felt good. What now?
Seize the means of production
I worry that attempting a socialist-flavored revolution in the US now would only weaken the world's most powerful democracy in an era of resurgent authoritarianism.
There just aren't the numbers needed for anything like that. People need to want it.
There's plenty out there, I'm a fan of Fever 666, been following them since they started. Just cause the radio doesn't wanna play them doesn't mean they don't exist. This article is based on ignorance.
Hey thanks for that. I'll check them out.
Lol, it ain't gonna be a guy who is partial owner of a soccer team.
Protest songs are quite rare when you only listen to tge radio.
Macklemore Hind's hall https://youtu.be/fgDQyFeBBIo
Lyrics: The people they won’t leave What is threatening about divesting and wanting peace? The problem isn’t the protests it’s what they’re protesting Cause it goes against what our country is funding Block the barricade until Palestine is free Block the barricade until Palestine is free When I was 7 I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy E What was it again? oh yea fuck the police Actors in badges protecting property And a system that was designed by white supremacy But the people are in the streets You can pay off meta you can’t pay off me Politicians who serve by any means AIPAC, CUFI and all the companies You see we sell fear around the land of the free But this generation here is about to cut the strings You can ban tik Tok take us out the algothim But it’s too late we’ve seen the truth we bare witness We’ve seen the ruble the buildings the mothers the children And all the men that you murdered and then we see how they spin it Who gets to the right to defend and who gets the right of resistance Has always been about dollars and the color of your pigment But White supremacy is finally on blast Screaming free Palestine until they’re home at last We see the lies in them Claiming it’s anti-semetic to be anti-zionist I’ve seen jewish brothers and sisters out there and riding In solidarity and screaming free Palestine with em Organizing, unlearning and finally cutting ties with a State that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system To uphold an occupying violent History been repeating for the last 75 The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied If some kids in tents, posted on the lawn occupying the quad is really against the law And a reason to call in the police and their squad where does genocide land in your definition huh? destroying every college in Gaza and every mosque pushing everyone into rafah and dropping bombs The blood is on your hands Biden, we can see it all And fuck no I’m not voting for you in the fall Undecided, you can’t twist the truth The people out here united never be defeated when Freedom’s on the horizon Yet the music industry’s quiet complicit in their platform of silence What happened to the artist what do you got to say? If I was on a label, you could drop me today And be fine with it cause the heart fed my page I want a ceasefire fuck a response from drake What you willing to risk? What you willing to give? What if you were Gaza? what if those were your kids? If the west was pretending that you didn’t exist You’d want the world to stand up And the students finally did Let’s get it
bout fucking time.
Check out Jesse Welles on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E9l_i6HPYM
That was great. Thank you.
Love him, love the subject, can't wait to listen to the song!
Fucking awesome. I do hope the americans keep Biden in though, in other words keep Trump out. It is unfortunate but getting covid is preferable than getting murdered.
But that's for seasonally political people, who are political only during elections. Hopefully people keep the energy up and realise how small relying on electoralism is, and politics and struggle are a constant endeavour and not just a once in four year thing.
The professor has been political for a long time. Doesn't anyone remember Same Love from back in 2013?
Thanks that was a really thorough and insightful article.