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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.
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.
They value not being a target. Their sponsors definitely value not being a target.
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
There were a lot of protest songs about Iraq and then it just seemed to fizzle out
They are not on your side. That’s why punk and hardcore is a thing and “pop” is garbage
Pretty sure Eminem did like 8 years ago, the first time.
They are signed with labels and are not allowed.
Lowkey and Macklemore have stepped up though
It’s funny how Macklemore’s redemption for humiliating Kendrick Lamar is humiliating Kendrick Lamar again.
Kendrick was a massive disappointed. Fakest rapper alive trying to diss Drake instead of speaking out againdt a genocide.
Gaza has ripped the mask off everyone.
This isn’t the 90’s or 00’s. Rebellion against the system is no longer the “cool” theme for artists to make money on.
I just want angry punk to have a major comeback
Big artists are performing clowns for monopoly capitalists.
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.
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.
Macklemore has a couple.
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.
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.
