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?
Rage against the Machine are very explicitly leftist. Like pretty much every song.
When did their music get so political?
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It is something I’ve seen asked.
Most people don’t pay attention to lyrics at all, and don’t have the literacy skills to try to understand them.
That’s true and quite unfortunate, but to be fair Anti-Flag was still fairly popular from what I understand, and their lyrics are much more politically charged.
I think Rage Against The Machine just doesn’t grab the same way, at least for me personally.
Rage Against The Machine is ok, but they are to me utterly eclipsed by the thousands of leftist artists before and after them that make far more poignant and interesting music both lyrically and musically.
Maybe I just haven’t tried the right material or listened to them enough, I have nothing against them but they just don’t grab me in the way every other leftist music artist has grabbed me, the ending song from The Matrix for instance while a cool mic drop in the film, I find just not very interesting.
I’ve listed some in my original comment, but if you’re curious I can list many many more.
I actually maintain a playlist here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rYZABdJf5H8XmliZ9ZTIW?pi=KIskSDh8T--mY