• Kecessa
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    7 months ago

    Punk musicians be like “Music is apolitical???”

    Shitty pop music has never been political.

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      7 months ago

      Eh, there’s some pretty famous examples of pop music being political. Weirdly, the most recent example I can think of off the top of my head is Green Day’s American Idiot, which had a couple tracks that were pretty political. I will say that it’s probably been a straight decline in pop music being political since the ‘60s.

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      7 months ago

      Punk hasn’t been mainstream in decades. “An era of apolitical music” sounds pretty accurate for today’s world tbh.