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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because β€œKilling in the Name Of” is still relevant.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    Big popular artist are probably pretty controlled in what the money lets them do. More independent artist are making the songs.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Big artists are performing clowns for monopoly capitalists.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    This. Especially these morons rapping about "the Man keeping them down" when they're literally working FOR "the man" and they're covered in gold bling. Congratulations. You just made a bunch of rich, white record executives even richer, while doing NOTHING for the people you claim to care about.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Macklemore has a couple.

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  • [+] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Big artists benefit too much from the system. People seem to give passes to the rich they like, but they're all our enemies. No amount of good they could possibly do would offset the support and participation they provide to this machine of destruction.

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  • Check out Jesse Welles (@hellswelles). Kind of a modern Bob Dylan.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    They are not on your side. That's why punk and hardcore is a thing and "pop" is garbage

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They are signed with labels and are not allowed.

    Lowkey and Macklemore have stepped up though

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I'm assuming you're talking about the US leadership? Eminem has been putting out music critical of every (2) Republican president since getting big.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm surprised at the lack of folk songs about Luigi

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Here you go. There are a number of 'corrido de luigi' songs out there.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    There are, maybe look for different genres

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    There were a lot of protest songs about Iraq and then it just seemed to fizzle out

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Record companies are just big corporate conflomerates, who dont want to make waves, and they control the artists' output.

    Any Resistance Music is going to come from truly independent artists, and we should do everything we can to promote them.

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  • There don't have to be any protest songs. The message could be carried by another medium.

    I also think right now that there is a period of uncertainty and intimidation going on. No industry wants to step into the limelight speaking up against the magas for fear of direct reprisals from the government or from those who really like it or having their attorneys targeted. So maybe the big kahunas of the music industry are less inclined to publish protest songs when they know an orange sh!tstorm will come their way when they do.

    It may also be too early for any protest song to be written, recorded, and to have gained enough traction for anyone to notice.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    They value not being a target. Their sponsors definitely value not being a target.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I've heard of one big protest song by a pretty mainstream artist which didn't autofill on youtube when I just searched for it and was apparently buried. I wonder how many other songs were buried.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    because they're rich and don't want to alienate any portion of people that make them more rich? Also they aren't even slightly inconvenienced by the changes in policy.

    Artists reciprocating the feelings of the people is a thing of the past.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Pretty sure Eminem did like 8 years ago, the first time.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This depends on how you discover music. Usually radio or top lists don't cover major political issues since it makes half their audience angry. Also it can take a bit to get a song written, recorded, mixed, mastered and released in most cases.

    Im into metal and there are some artists that release amazing protest songs

    Fox lake

    • savior

    Fit for an autopsy

    • flat lining
    • no man is without fear

    Thy art is murder

    • holy war
    • make America hate again

    Acrania

    • dissolution in a discordant system
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