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What Happened to Protest Music? (inthesetimes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/music@lemmy.world

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[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember when the Dixie Chicks were cancelled? There’s your answer as to why mainstream musicians won’t risk it.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember when Rage Against The Machine did a surprise show outside of the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles? I wish they'd do it again.

https://youtu.be/RRildS1sPqo

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Except they pulled a bunch of both-sides bullshit and probably hurt turnout for Gore.

Nader (the future Green Party) hurt Gore a lot too, and then in 2016 we had to listen to Paul fucking Ryan say how big a Rage fan he was.

I love RATM and Zach de la Rocha, especially with more recent collabs with RTJ, but unless they are gonna focus on swing voters in 3 goddamn states, I don’t see it helping.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Gore won the election, so maybe they helped. Supreme Court interference took it away.