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What is this generations Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, Tupac, or Rage against the machine? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago by Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel global political oppression or global wars usually produce great music but Macklemore might be the peak.

Nothing against him, some of his songs are good, but I expected real rage inducing stuff with everything going on. Or is this just the state of music as a whole?

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[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

I'm a 90s kid and I never got into music like this. I always had single songs I liked, including from RatM, Nirvana etc but I never really cared about more than 1 or 2 songs of any individual artist, or albums. I just didn't like the other songs.

I assume the reason why you have these "recognizable" names was solely because music was sold in albums. People couldn't reaaaally get music conveniently any other way. And only the biggest ones could afford to produce albums in the first place. So even if you liked 1 or 2 songs only, you were "forced" to buy the whole album and since you got it already, why not listen to the rest. And since you didn't have infinite money to buy infinite albums you listened to the same ones again and again.

I never really did that. I bought an album and actually only listened to one song or I bought compilations. I never cared about a particular artist, only about songs. The current music acquisition process is perfect for me, I find plenty of amazing songs everywhere. Do I know the artist of my songs? Not really, and I don't care. When I meet someone, we listen to each other's music together. I vibe with and pick single new songs from them. We don't bond over artists, we bond over music. I think everything is perfect that way.

Edit: just one German example of a popular song that many people here know that criticizes shit here in the country: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-B0lXnierw

[–] y0y0ma@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That guy is a Hardcore Zionist. He released a song with his band last year called October in Europe where they had texts like:

Since 07.10. I no longer want to seek the conversation
Surprise: Even Greta hates Jews
Back then, the perpetrators were gone in no time
Today, the greatest anti-Semites are
All anti-racists, against hate and for peace
...
It was supposed to be "Never again powerlessness"
October is coming to Europe

To add to the discussion, watch out for bands getting banned all the time. The British rapper Lowkey, for example, has some hard-hitting lyrics and beautiful melodies. Very political, too!

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