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Where are the good political songs?

I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!

I’m out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I’ve linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)

edit: Maybe not the right audience, but if the song is old enough to vote then I might already know it! What’s happening now? Any songs from the last 10 years!

edit: Thanks for everyone’s insights. I’ve spent the day discovering music that I’d never have found otherwise. Really enjoying a load of these, but thanks to everyone! It seems like protest music is confined to certain genres/places, and lots of older songs - maybe they just last longer… which is maybe a little interesting.

DigitalTraveler42 ,

Gary Clarke Jr. Has some good protest songs, especially for a blues musician, including a remake of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s Ohio.

Municipal Waste is great for some hardcore, there’s actually a bunch of hardcore bands that have some excellent protest songs.

Then you have Ice-T’s Body Count.

Lamb of God’s albums post-Randy’s time in a Czech prison have been full of social commentary, far more than the earlier albums.

I’ve seen people highlight Killer Mike’s Grammy wins, but his other group Run the Jewels is pretty much the biggest name in protest rap these days.

Then you have Kendrick Lamar, possibly the best rapper of his generation, absolutely one of the greatest story tellers of rap, period.

Overall there’s a lot of pop, metal, rock, rap and other genres who have some prominent names and many lesser known names who are putting out good angry music.

Then you have Ice Cube putting out Arrest the President then proceeding to talk about voting for that same president.🤦‍♂️

Persen ,

I don’t know if thease two are protest songs, but they are near enough: Plavi orkestar - Fa Fa Fašista, Bijelo dugme - Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo

Edit: They are yugoslavian, so not that relevant now.

Flax_vert ,

Dégénération

A French Quebec song about how the world is going and how Gen Z has been neglected

hex_m_hell ,

Oskar Barnack ∞ Oscar Grant -Blue Scholars

Bonus in Dutch - Bent Je Bang - Hang Youth

Hikermick ,

This thought has occurred to me recently. What is this generation’s soundtrack? What is the music everyone will look on and say it defined the time?

RGB3x3 ,

There isn’t one so much these days because streaming has given everyone their own particular music bubble. And stuff can still get insanely popular, but there aren’t hits that everyone talks about anymore.

macrocephalic ,

You won’t know until it’s long passed. Time is the best curator.

nyctre ,

Despacito, the fox, Gangnam style, shape of you, cruel summer, blinding lights, etc.

federatingIsTooHard ,
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revolution by Tracy chapman

yokonzo ,

Anything by flobots, old stuff or new is pretty political

Zoomboingding ,
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2020 Visions by Michael Guy Bowman is about the insurrection

SVcross ,
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La Bala - Juana Fé

Shapillon ,

Moscow Death Brigade for example

TheDoctorDonna ,

The Offspring. Americana, Stuff is Messed up, the Kids Aren’t Alright…

gAlienLifeform ,
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Say She She’s “Norma” is all about the end of Roe v Wade

Muscle_Meteor ,

Right Now - Jesse Roper

Jerb322 ,
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Body Count, Ice T Rage Against the Machine Green Day Tool,more about religion

Shurimal ,

Leslie Fish is still writing music. Plus her old works from 1980-s (eg It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb and Firestorm) are as relevant now as they were 40 years ago.

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