• jared@mander.xyz
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    11 days ago

    Big popular artist are probably pretty controlled in what the money lets them do. More independent artist are making the songs.

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      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.

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    This isn’t the 90’s or 00’s. Rebellion against the system is no longer the “cool” theme for artists to make money on.

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    Big artists benefit too much from the system. People seem to give passes to the rich they like, but they’re all our enemies. No amount of good they could possibly do would offset the support and participation they provide to this machine of destruction.

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    I’m assuming you’re talking about the US leadership? Eminem has been putting out music critical of every (2) Republican president since getting big.

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

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        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.

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    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.

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    There don’t have to be any protest songs. The message could be carried by another medium.

    I also think right now that there is a period of uncertainty and intimidation going on. No industry wants to step into the limelight speaking up against the magas for fear of direct reprisals from the government or from those who really like it or having their attorneys targeted. So maybe the big kahunas of the music industry are less inclined to publish protest songs when they know an orange sh!tstorm will come their way when they do.

    It may also be too early for any protest song to be written, recorded, and to have gained enough traction for anyone to notice.