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For a brief moment in time, the music considered cool had a distinct anti-capitalist edge to it.
What happened?
For a brief moment in time, the music considered cool had a distinct anti-capitalist edge to it
Nathaniel Hughes
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Are you living under a rock OP? These are very recent songs.
PS: this is a daily reminder to support anti-capitalist artists like RTJ, as art is a powerful tool to speak to the masses
Parker Young
Being anti-establishment is almost the definition of "cool". What is cool doesn't change. What changes is that cool things don't get popular (read: heavily marketed) once they're commodified because they threaten the establishment.
There has literally always been music and other art that was anti-establishment. This predates capitalism. The example you give is just a point where popular music as an industry hadn't settled into a well-established status quo where the bourgeoisie had figured out pretty much everything about how to churn out content with mass-market appeal. As any artistic industry develops, genres catering to different crowds will tend to converge into something bland but broadly appealing. This is because it's a lot cheaper to make one thing and sell it to lots of people than to make different things for many subsets of people. It's similar to how corporations tend to merge as capitalism develops.
Jackson Rodriguez
What, by buying their stuff?
Carter Brown
there is actually a big chance I'm living under a rock cos its 2017 and i've been listening to System of A Down all morning
Yeh but late 90's/Early 2000s everything kind of synced up, like metal/hardcore was cool, generally anti establishment/capitalist. Wereas punk or whatever was was always distinctly a subculture.
Like which band is the RATM of now? That are on anywhere near the same level. (although like i said I do live under a rock in that fashion)
But with nu-metal etc it became dominant, everybody started wearing skate shoes etc,
Brayden Sullivan
okay so hip-hop happened.
But why aren't hip-hop yoot more class concious considering all the "woke" hip hop?
Jacob Mitchell
Tbh explicitly political music is often garbage, Adorno was mostly right on this. Also, pic related is coming out.
Mason White
somebody SAYED MUSIC !
HAVE SOME FRENCH CLASSIC
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Cameron Ramirez
So, an artist is anti-capitalist if he makes anti-capitalist statements? You have an incredible understanding of arts.
Blake Foster
Their music is downloadable for free on their own site comrade, yes they sell extra merch but you know as well as I do they are living in the same capitalist conditions as we do.
More people listening to their free music and wearing merch > more popularity > bigger chance of spreading the anti-capitalist message. Don't be too negative now.
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Nathaniel Miller
I said anti-capitalist edge to it, I didn't say they were distinctly Marxist, but the lean is clear
Bentley Wright
so all it takes to become a commie is being anti-racist, low standards there
Carter Rogers
Most hip hop isn't woke at all, especially mainstream hip hop. All they rap about it bitches, drugs and guns. And even sole crybaby love songs..
But I'm starting to notice various known artists coming forward with an anti-capitalist vibe, as another comrade here said they just get less media attention to prevent more popularity
See
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Jace Bell
What the fuck are you about anarchist music is still cool
Jayden Murphy
I'm not a purist or an orthodox Marxist, I'm just saying that popular music bands are hardly revolutionary art.
Alexander Ortiz
is it tho?
I'm more talking about it as it is, a fashion trend. I'm basically asking what made it the trend then and why isn't it the trend now?
Colton Collins
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John Hernandez
is it a real picture? when did gy!be go so radical?
Luis Fisher
Do you understand how unrevolutionary this opinion is in itself?
You're just a contradictarian user
Evan Reed
I didn't say that popular things can not be revolutionary, I'm just saying that in the current society and its mass culture any popular phenomenon can not be revolutionary whatsoever.
Kevin Diaz
Yea I'm just gonna go ahead and laugh at this post. I hope you see the irony yourself user
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Tyler Diaz
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I didn't know that they were true comrades either - pretty pumped for this album now.
Christopher Clark
Hmmmm… What could have happened after this song was released that suddenly made dissent uncool? Remember the action at the WTO conference in 99? Whatever happened must have been something pretty big to turn around all that anti-capitalist, sentiment, but I just can't remember what it might have been.
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Landon Harris
nah, fbi wanted to stop it from becoming non-revolutionary
the agents are secret communists playing 34D chess
Kevin Gray
what are you listening to /lefypol/
Jackson Taylor
It got appropriated.
Samuel Foster
Eli Edwards
agreed, 9/11 was a huge blue pill to Americans, it set back anti-capitalism by at least a decade
Levi Thomas
Are you serious? That was a pretty clear allegory to capital.
Elijah Anderson
The GY!BE collective have always been anti-capitalist leftists.
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Nolan Jones
We were talking about popular art and specifically popular music, if you didn't get it.
Yes, I know, but they went full berserk within the last couple of years.
Landon Jenkins
Lots of socialist music threads recently: je l'aime.
Obligatory, Chumbawamba's (yes that one) English Rebel Songs.
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Kevin James
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
BUT I GET UP AGAIN
YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN
Easton Stewart
OMG Tubthumping is really the story of class struggle against the ruling classes put forth through the most proletarian of framing devices: drinking in a pub and seshing.
Kevin Torres
OH, DANNY BOY
Jonathan Allen
(also Tubthumping came out in 1997, which is in the period I am referring to when anticapitalism was cool)
David Morgan
Y'all fucking plebs.
Dominic Murphy
Finally a patrician
Pic related is my favorite album ever
Luis Hughes
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these guys are the shizz today