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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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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When did their music get so political?

/s

It is something I've seen asked.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most people don't pay attention to lyrics at all, and don't have the literacy skills to try to understand them.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

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.