• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    11 minutes ago

    Record companies are just big corporate conflomerates, who dont want to make waves, and they control the artists’ output.

    Any Resistance Music is going to come from truly independent artists, and we should do everything we can to promote them.

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    57 minutes ago

    I’ve heard of one big protest song by a pretty mainstream artist which didn’t autofill on youtube when I just searched for it and was apparently buried. I wonder how many other songs were buried.

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      1 day ago

      This. Especially these morons rapping about “the Man keeping them down” when they’re literally working FOR “the man” and they’re covered in gold bling. Congratulations. You just made a bunch of rich, white record executives even richer, while doing NOTHING for the people you claim to care about.

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    This isn’t the 90’s or 00’s. Rebellion against the system is no longer the “cool” theme for artists to make money on.

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      18 hours ago

      It’s funny how Macklemore’s redemption for humiliating Kendrick Lamar is humiliating Kendrick Lamar again.

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        Kendrick was a massive disappointed. Fakest rapper alive trying to diss Drake instead of speaking out againdt a genocide.

        Gaza has ripped the mask off everyone.

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    2 days ago

    Big popular artist are probably pretty controlled in what the money lets them do. More independent artist are making the songs.

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    This depends on how you discover music. Usually radio or top lists don’t cover major political issues since it makes half their audience angry. Also it can take a bit to get a song written, recorded, mixed, mastered and released in most cases.

    Im into metal and there are some artists that release amazing protest songs

    Fox lake

    • savior

    Fit for an autopsy

    • flat lining
    • no man is without fear

    Thy art is murder

    • holy war
    • make America hate again

    Acrania

    • dissolution in a discordant system
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    2 days ago

    Big artists benefit too much from the system. People seem to give passes to the rich they like, but they’re all our enemies. No amount of good they could possibly do would offset the support and participation they provide to this machine of destruction.

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    2 days ago

    I’m assuming you’re talking about the US leadership? Eminem has been putting out music critical of every (2) Republican president since getting big.