coma Wrote:
Red House Vincent Wrote:
one of the thousand? I wanna know who you're listening to, 'cause to me, the only artists who seem to have any sort of (overt) anti-Bush rhetoric are Pearl Jam and Neil Young. Maybe you can give me the scoop on some better ones?
I'm equating anti-war with anti-Bush.
http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/b ... ng_artistshttp://hub.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl ... 7/1104/HUBhttp://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news ... 623323.htmMy thinking is if you're not a country artist and you're making music the odds are you're anti-Bush. It's like picking out liberals in Hollywood... there are too many to even start.
It's not a hard generality to back up.
Springsteen, Dylan, Green Day, U2, Black Eyed Peas, Flaming Lips, Paul Simon, Outkast, Queen Latifa, John Cale, Massive Attack, Ice Cube, Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Wu Tang Clan, Randy Newman...
These aren't even indie hipsters... these are prolific artists.
I had forgot about Green Day and the Beastie Boys doing anti-war songs or being so openly anti-bush, but I think it still goes back to being called out on those songs like Godsmack were here. No offense to John Cale, but the average Joe watching Fox News is never going to hear or see anything about him being anti-bush. Springsteen is a blue collar guy in the eyes of alot of people in middle america, so he can be anti-Bush like he was anti-Reagan and still be viewed positively by people in the military.
U2 is involved with so many causes that they can't be pigeon holed as being solely a liberal anti-war/anti-bush band. They can't be ardently anti-bush if Bono has met with Dubya and his former treasury secretary Paul O'neill.
Like Godsmack in this incident, the press that might discuss most of the bands listed above being anti-bush is not being read or heard by a great deal of average joes. I'm sure most people assume they are liberals for being artist/celebrities, but I'm guessing they also assume from the songs that they hear on the radio or see on tv that they are apolitical.
