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having political lyrics si not about trying to make a change. it is more like talking about what you care about. like Morrissey sang, "sing your life".
if you love art, sing about art, if you are apssionate about politics, sing about politics. if you are a reactionary psycho pseudo-fascist who loves orchids and cheese, sing about that.
what I see is that over the past 25 years, the youth of the USA (I cannot speak for other nations) are driven further and further away from politics, in an concerted effort to create a disenfranchised section of the populace, who, because they do not care about poltics will not get involved in local activism, or in national activism, or even be concerned about when to vote and such things.
we in the USA are bred for apathy in the last 3 decades, because the people that run the show, the powerful elite, got scared out of their wits between 1965-and 1975.
by virtue of that, bands spend more time singing about pathetic stupid shit like how a girl hurt your stupid feelings or how they have a very expensive wristwatch or how they are just angry, but they DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE ANGRY ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just my thoughts on it.
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