Been thinking a bit about this, popular music (the ones that hit top 100 charts or whatever) never has lyrics that point out real problems or point to culprits and how they’re fucking our shit, which is very easy to find in punk rock and some variations, as well as rap.
Of course, part of the problem are the record labels themselves, which often hold artists “hostage” in order to profit off them. Bigger ones will obviously prefer to avoid having such lyrics become popular.
Still, there seems to be absolute zero songs in certain genres that even come within 10 meters of talking/singing/teaching/bringing awareness about situations that affect a LOT of listeners, even from far away, and would be extremely helpful in spreading some knowledge.
Granted, doing so is easier said than done, a catchy tune that calls out big oil’s many attempts to burn the world, or big pharma’s frequent price gouging, aren’t things “any idiot” can come up with. But that nobody outside “angry” genres seems to be doing it is what saddens me.
Can’t seem to find a way to make the link work as something to see from within one’s own instance.
For me it should be this: musicwithamessage@kbin.social, the link is
c/musicwithamessage@kbin.social, but I guess due to how kbin orders its communities as magazines,/m/instead, it doesn’t quite work? m/ instead of c/ gives a 404There is a way to sub to Kbin magazines from Lemmy, unfortunately I don’t know what it is.
On the kbin side I can search all “magazines” for keywords and Lemmy communities will come up there, and I can sub that way. I’d assume there’s a similar reverse method on the Lemmy side.
If someone more knowledgeable wants to let me know how to format the link in a way that will work for Lemmy folks I’ll remember it for the future.