Thursday 9th July 2009
Riz MC - Sour Times (via Pickled Politics)
Remember when popular music dared to pass comment on politics and social issues? I mean, I don’t, I hadn’t been born yet, but I can be vicariously nostalgic about protest songs and music with at least some semblance of social commentary and some depth of lyrical content that goes deeper than ‘Boom Boom Pow’ and ‘Hush Hush Hush Hush’ (to glance at the singles charts). Though there’s an infinite wealth of excellent music out there, some of which has things to say about the society in which we live, the music that enters the zeitgeist has long since been reduced to hollow echoes by the same vapid, dollar-eyed commercialism that has suits bitching and moaning about people using technology to take back the music for themselves again (or just not pay for that weak-ass shit, depending on how you look at it). So when you actually do hear contemporary music that contains some socio-political commentary, it’s like a glimpse of what popular music could be like if it stopped being an industry first and returned to being foremost an art form. Perhaps then consumers might stop consuming and start listening again.
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