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Does anyone else find it interesting that despite going through a momentous era of nation wide protests through BLM, Covid lockdown protests, etc. there’s been very little in the way of protest music produced by the culture? This may just be the function of my being mid 30s and being out of touch, but unlike the 1960s-70s which produced some amazing protest music (bob dylan, Nina Simone, Beatles, etc) there’s been…nothing of any note these days. Feels like a cultural wasteland tbh
Is this the youth being a much smaller generation now? Is music too corporate now? Or are the youth simply more conformist and love authority?
From the other tribe. "Anti-Fascist Blues" by Five Times August
The comments on the youtube video seem to suggest that this song is actually serious and not a parody, unless everybody in the comments is doing a great job of keeping up kayfabe or something.... I understand it's a song and they are using hyperbole in a lot of the statements in a sort "fuck it we'll just double down on all the dumb shit we're accused of" type of way, but I genuinely can't fathom a song containing the lyric "everyone's a fascist till they're all controlled" not being a parody. As in, if somebody made a song with that line as a parody to ridicule antifascists I wouldn't have thought it funny because it would seem too blunt to me.....
EDIT: It is actually a parody ridiculing the left. I quickly skimmed through a few comments on the vid and didn't see anything immediately indicating it was being interpreted as a parody (stuff like 'they don't want people to wake up, so they can keep controlling them' is something which can be said by both tribes), but having skimmed through some more comments due to the replies I got, it is indeed ridiculing the left. I'm not exactly honoring my username having been a bit too hasty here......
Five Times August is Red Tribe. I don't know what you mean by the comments on the video, "They don't want people to wake up so they can keep controlling people," "music that resonates with the silent majority," "Now we have protest music against the woke Left and the government."
They are ridiculing antifacists. Yes, it is pretty blunt.
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What comments are you reading? I saw mostly references to freedom truckers, lockdown protestors, and "G-d". Looks right-wing to me.
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