Musical question for political talk

I’ll never listen to a Rage Against the Machine song in the same way again.

Tom Morrello is the machine.

Zach Bryan also needs to stfu.

Not so much musical groups, but some actors make me want to puke.

DeNiro is such an a-hole. He lost a nephew to a fentanyl overdose but still opposes Trumps crack down on the drug flow.

Metal

No. I was a huge Bruce Springsteen fan in high school and early college. I refuse to listen to any of his music. Oh, and screw Roger Waters.

It’s definitely a conundrum. Big assumption but most actors/musicians were most likely not jocks in high school. I would think they were considered outsiders thus why they are sympathetic to democrats. I enjoy Musi mostly, don’t look for meaning in the lyrics. Comical to see politicians use songs like born in the USA when it’s anything but patriotic

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Are you able to separate your taste in music from the artist’s politics?

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If you can't I sure hope you like a certain 10%, maybe 15%, of country music.

Because that's all you're going to be listening to.

Maybe polka.

Velvet Underground Drummer Moe Tucker Explains Her Support of the Tea Party

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Earlier this month, former Velvet Underground drummer and all-around punk/indie icon Moe Tucker confused a whole lot of people when she showed up in a Georgia newscast about a Tea Party rally, advocating for the extreme wing of the Republican Party: "I'm furious about the way we're being led toward socialism," she said. The St.Louis Riverfront Times, looking for clarification, got Tucker to agree to an email interview, in which she goes way further in laying out why, exactly, she's so angry.

She starts out by expressing disappointment with the way our country's social safety-net programs work: "My family was damn poor when I was growing up on Long Island. There were no food stamps, no Medicaid, no welfare. If you were poor, you were poor. You didn't have a TV, you didn't have five pairs of shoes, you didn't have Levis, you didn't have a phone; you ate Spam, hot dogs, and spaghetti. We all survived! I am not against food stamps, welfare or Medicaid, if only they would oversee these programs properly!"

She goes on to rail against government intervention in what she sees as personal matters, including healthy eating and installing eco-friendly lightbulbs. And she comes out quite strongly against pork-barrel spending: "It drives me nuts to see that X millions are being allocated to build a turtle tunnel, a donkey museum, a salamander crossing, etc, etc, etc."

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Two of my favorite all-time musicians are Eddie Vedder and Corey Taylor, and they're both politically retarded. I'll listen to their albums because I like the music and I already own the albums, but I stop going to shows and monetarily supporting them when they get political.

But it's funny. Bands like Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine and Stone Sour took their early political stances against administrations like Bush Sr. and Jr., and you can look back to the "rebels" of the 60s and 70s that were rebellion against Republican ideology as well. Well the Overton Window shifted ridiculously far to the left and the people that these artists advocated to be in charge actually slowly and steadily took charge and are running everything now. And these artists are still rebelling against ghosts that died decades ago.

I mean, I said I liked their music but I never accused them of the capacity for abstract thought and reasoning.

That’s the way I feel. I’m 54. I grew up listening to creedence the stones and all the 60s and 70s bands. Most of the best songs are anti Vietnam Springsteen is a hypocrite but I like his music. I like Elton John and queen but I’m not a homo. Not that there’s anything wrong with that lol