| NightDragon83 said: Because in order to have a good protest song you need something that's actually worth protesting. I like how you brought up Staten Island and Ferguson incidents this past summer... THAT'S your basis for a protest? Two black men killed by police, one who had just robbed a convenience store and then assaulted an officer which resulted in him eating lead, and the other with a record of 30 prior arrests (!!!) refusing to cooperate with police which led to him being subdued by chokehold when his chronic asthma kicked in and finished him off. And we aren't going to get any anti-war protest songs because a Democrat is in the White House... funny how that works. Back in the 60s and 70s it wasn't until a Republican was in the white house after 8 years of Democrats that the Vietnam war protests really took off, and from 1968-'72 is when most of the popular anti-war songs were recorded. There were plenty of political / anti-war songs during the 80s too when Reagan was in office, then things were toned down in the mid-late 90s when Clinton was in office despite his bombing Iraq multiple times among other things. Then of course when Bush was in office everyone and anyone was making anti-war / anti-Bush songs. But now that a Democrat is once again in office, despite escalating the conflict in Afghanistan and getting the US involved in Libya, as well as the rise in Islamic extremism not just in the Middle East but around the world, no more protest songs have been written. Know why? Because, ironically, all protest songs must be politically correct. |
I said I wasn't trying to start a political discussion here. People are obviously pissed and I want to know if they're expressing it through song. If they consider these things worth protesting then writing a protest song shouldn't be much of a stretch. CSNY were recording Ohio less than three weeks after the Kent State shootings, so I wouldn't accept 'give it time' as an answer.
I guess you've never heard the phrase "Hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today." Besides, make up your mind -- you say there is nothing worth writing protest songs about right now, then complain that no one would dare write a protest song while Obama is in office. Keep your political commentary to yourself, this is not in the political discussion forum.
| sundin13 said: Rise Against is a lot more palatable when it comes to rock music...their old stuff bordered on hardcore punk (and it was damn good), but their newer stuff can be pretty great too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DboMAghWcA |
Daaaaaamn, now that's what I'm thinking about.
