Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Wasn't Neil Young a Reagan supporter in the 80s?
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Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Originally Posted by kd5
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Spoiler:
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Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Here are a few all released after Drump was voted Pres
Hurray For the Riff Raff with Rican Beach” Joey Badass with Land Of The Free Vince Staples with BagBak Margo Price with All American Made Priest with Pink White House And one of the best anti war song's ever from 2015 |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Originally Posted by Noonan
(Post 13253795)
IMO, younger artists these days are too far removed from real world problems to have government be the muse for their music. Very different than in the 60's/70's. |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
None of these "protest" songs have had any traction. For such an anthem to be effective it has to be sung at rallies and retreats and demonstrations and such the way "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," and "Kumbaya" were sung ad infinitem at such gatherings in the 1960s.
I remember the Country Joe anti-Vietnam War song linked in an earlier post, "One Two Three--what are we fighting for? / I don't know, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam," was repurposed for other anti-war demonstrations, e.g. against intervention in El Salvador in 1980-81, with slight changes in the lyrics. I know I remember hearing it that way back when I used to attend such events. (When I actually cared about what was going on in the world.) I can't recall if it was sung at any of the anti-Gulf War events I attended. |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
The only one that comes to mind (and it's not all that much of a protest) is Leeroy Stagger's "I Want It All":
With all your privilege You make the rules But we won’t be trumped Don’t you play the fool It’s a beautiful world we’re born into So take it back again |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Originally Posted by orangerunner
(Post 13254235)
...I always thought a band like U2 would have something significant to say but on the other hand, look at how much grief they received for giving away their album on iTunes for free...
Originally Posted by Mabuse
(Post 13254526)
1. I recall U2 stalled the release of their new album in order to go back into the studio to add content more relevant to the "post-election" America. I haven't heard the new album. Is there anything approaching a protest song?
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Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Eminem's cypher at the BET Awards, with 43mm views, is probably the biggest protest song of last year. |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Lindsay Ellis made an excellent 40-min video essay on the protest songs of the Bush era and how... they mostly sucked. :lol: I remember being into a lot of this music back then, but it's funny how times have changed.
Here's the video: And here's a good one, not necessarily about... *waves hands* |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
I was just thinking the other day that we don't seem to have the protest songs like we did in the periods of social upheaval during the late 60's - early 70's. I was watching the excellent Laurel Canyon doc last week and learned that CSNY recorded and rush released their "Ohio" single within a month of the Kent State shootings. Now, I may be way off base, I don't listen to much current pop music (my tastes in new music trend towards metal*) so maybe there have been current artists addressing some of the recent issues in powerful protest songs. I hope so, that kind of stuff is important.
* the only current metal bands I can think of that seriously address current problems are bands like Cattle Decapitation and Gojira, that cover a lot of environmental and animal rights issues in their songs. |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Perhaps this absence (or low profile) of "protest songs" might have to do with how there are no more rockstars of the type from decades ago. (ie. Nobody pays attention to rock/pop singers anymore).
(Without getting into current day politics). Protesting might very well be manifesting in other forms completely unrelated to music. For example stuff like: wikileaks, greta thunberg, metoo, blm, etc ... |
Re: Where are all the protest songs?
Artists now have way too many deals going on with clothing brands, shoe companies, streaming services, etc. They don’t want to jeopardize that by getting political.
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