Why are there no big artists doing protest songs ?

[dearmoogle@lemmy.today]

There were a lot of protest songs about Iraq and then it just seemed to fizzle out

[nutwrench@lemmy.ml]

This. Especially these morons rapping about "the Man keeping them down" when they're literally working FOR "the man" and they're covered in gold bling. Congratulations. You just made a bunch of rich, white record executives even richer, while doing NOTHING for the people you claim to care about.

[tiny@midwest.social]

This depends on how you discover music. Usually radio or top lists don't cover major political issues since it makes half their audience angry. Also it can take a bit to get a song written, recorded, mixed, mastered and released in most cases.

Im into metal and there are some artists that release amazing protest songs

Fox lake

• savior

Fit for an autopsy

• flat lining
• no man is without fear

Thy art is murder

• holy war
• make America hate again

Acrania

• dissolution in a discordant system

[manicdave@feddit.uk]

It's funny how Macklemore's redemption for humiliating Kendrick Lamar is humiliating Kendrick Lamar again.

[geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml]

Kendrick was a massive disappointed. Fakest rapper alive trying to diss Drake instead of speaking out againdt a genocide.

Gaza has ripped the mask off everyone.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

They value not being a target. Their sponsors definitely value not being a target.

[goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Neathan Apollo did one :3

[kwakigra@beehaw.org]

I've heard of one big protest song by a pretty mainstream artist which didn't autofill on youtube when I just searched for it and was apparently buried. I wonder how many other songs were buried.

[barneypiccolo@lemm.ee]

Record companies are just big corporate conflomerates, who dont want to make waves, and they control the artists' output.

Any Resistance Music is going to come from truly independent artists, and we should do everything we can to promote them.

[blaiz0r@lemmy.ml]