👩🏼Where are all the protest songs?!
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Where are all the protest songs?!
Public Enemy's "Hazy Shade of Criminal" covered everything happening now.No, I mean recent protest songs!Dave's most recent album is the most streamed rap album this century.No, I mean protesting the people doing ICE!Um... It's the same people.No!@mekkaokereke The Coup: *exists*
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Look. What I'm looking for is songs like the protest songs that Black people make, protesting the same evil people that Black people protest, and protesting the evil things that happen to Black people... but without the Black people! I want songs that protest when that happens to other people!
@mekkaokereke
Ugh. Sorry you needed to deal with that. But thank you for sharing those new-to-me songs. -
Look. What I'm looking for is songs like the protest songs that Black people make, protesting the same evil people that Black people protest, and protesting the evil things that happen to Black people... but without the Black people! I want songs that protest when that happens to other people!
@mekkaokereke I guess the Superbowl halftime wasn't enough for them?
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Where are all the protest songs?!Public Enemy's "Hazy Shade of Criminal" covered everything happening now.No, I mean recent protest songs!Dave's most recent album is the most streamed rap album this century.No, I mean protesting the people doing ICE!Um... It's the same people.No!
There is one kind of protest song that I have not found: the kind that a large group can easily chant with little to no coordination ahead of time.
The main example I can think of is Bella Ciao in Italy like this: https://youtu.be/iDRiZouXOS8?si=gCda-RtQvnoRWN-t
I might not have been looking in the right places but none of the protest songs I've heard seem made for that since they are not descended as directly from working songs
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There is one kind of protest song that I have not found: the kind that a large group can easily chant with little to no coordination ahead of time.
The main example I can think of is Bella Ciao in Italy like this: https://youtu.be/iDRiZouXOS8?si=gCda-RtQvnoRWN-t
I might not have been looking in the right places but none of the protest songs I've heard seem made for that since they are not descended as directly from working songs
Primary use case is when you have a large crowd and the fascists have a sound system
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Look. What I'm looking for is songs like the protest songs that Black people make, protesting the same evil people that Black people protest, and protesting the evil things that happen to Black people... but without the Black people! I want songs that protest when that happens to other people!
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Look. What I'm looking for is songs like the protest songs that Black people make, protesting the same evil people that Black people protest, and protesting the evil things that happen to Black people... but without the Black people! I want songs that protest when that happens to other people! "without the Black people"
So, I guess KRS-One's "Between Da Protests" [https://krsone.bandcamp.com/album/between-da-protests-extended-edition] isn't going to cut the mustard? Dang. They probably really won't dig "Black, Black, Black" on that one.
Hmmm.
Stromkern's "Stand Up" feels as if it is a call to protest, but it's also 21 years old: https://stromkern.bandcamp.com/track/stand-up-radio-edit who was in office then? George W. Bush. Ned speaks to different times and experiences.
Some FGFC820 comes to mind, but AFAIK they were chewed up and spit out by the mercenary industrial complex and their lyrics reflect that, e.g. https://fgfc820.bandcamp.com/track/the-heart-of-america "Heart of America" while still about oppression under a heinous system is from a different lived experience.
Maybe, "sPEak On It!"? https://chuckdasmistachuck.bandcamp.com/track/speak-on-it
Wait, you're tellin me, "Mistachuck" is Chuck D, sans Public Enemy? Movin on!
How about, some Immortal Technique, he's Peruvian American, speakin on ICE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3EPc3yccgw
Ah wait, that's not spittin verses; still don't know when his next album "The Middle Passage" is due out, people have been waitin for what feels like two decades by now. (Heck even that footage of Tech is from 11 years ago)
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Where are all the protest songs?!Public Enemy's "Hazy Shade of Criminal" covered everything happening now.No, I mean recent protest songs!Dave's most recent album is the most streamed rap album this century.No, I mean protesting the people doing ICE!Um... It's the same people.No!
@mekkaokereke
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Where are all the protest songs?!Public Enemy's "Hazy Shade of Criminal" covered everything happening now.No, I mean recent protest songs!Dave's most recent album is the most streamed rap album this century.No, I mean protesting the people doing ICE!Um... It's the same people.No!
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Look. What I'm looking for is songs like the protest songs that Black people make, protesting the same evil people that Black people protest, and protesting the evil things that happen to Black people... but without the Black people! I want songs that protest when that happens to other people!
@mekkaokereke I had this discussion a while back after a radio show (on my local non-profit station) in which the host lamented that political protest songs just weren't popular anymore.
…shortly after Beyoncé's "In Formation" Super Bowl performance.
When I pinged the (white boomer male) host on Twitter mentioning that & other examples of hugely successful political songs (coincidentally by black artists), he replied that those weren't the style of music he played on his show.
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@mekkaokereke I had this discussion a while back after a radio show (on my local non-profit station) in which the host lamented that political protest songs just weren't popular anymore.
…shortly after Beyoncé's "In Formation" Super Bowl performance.
When I pinged the (white boomer male) host on Twitter mentioning that & other examples of hugely successful political songs (coincidentally by black artists), he replied that those weren't the style of music he played on his show.
@mekkaokereke So, his complaint was: there's no commercially successful protest music that appeals to white boomers. And he couldn't figure out why.
️And now Bruce Springsteen has a boomer-friendly political protest song, but minus uncomfortable context, talking about violent law enforcement in Minneapolis without going back 6 short years.
Even (the much more satisfying) Billy Bragg tune treats ICE raids as an isolated phenomenon — while explicitly citing the "First they came for…" poem.
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