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Does music have an agenda?
That title doesn't really make much sense, don't know why I chose it.
Anyway the question I'm trying to ask is alongline the lines of, if your favourite's bands lyrics were pro Nazi or something, could you still enjoy the music? Alternatively, are you drawn to music that has political views you agree with?
Interesting question
While the politics of a band don't really draw me to them as such, if I found out that a band I liked turned out to be fascist or something I would definately disasociate myself from them, at least publicly. Usually, though, even if I don't agree with everything a band says or stands for I still enjoy the music. So I'm a hypocrite.
all art has an ideological agenda
inescapable fact. whether it has anything to do with the political views of the person who has made it isnt always the same, but every piece of art you encounter is telling you how to live your life in some way.
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I agree.
I like to think, for example, that Fred Durst is merely a parody of a twat.
Although sometimes it's very hard to stray from the author's intention. And my interpretation means shit if lots of other people choose to accept a dangerous (e.g. homophobic/sexist/racist) meaning, and that spreads.
If the attitude behind the lyrics seems ugly/dangerous to me, the music has to be pretty damn good to compensate.
hopelandic "lyrics"
are all loaded with hidden white power messages
Well they could be
In all of the Sigur Ros videos they just have white people in them. Actually maybe Iceland is just a very white country.
this
lyrics should be seen as peripheral in deciding whether you like a piece of music.
they may become important in deciding whether to buy into the idea of a band emotionally.
or even financially
a fascist can write a good tune, bug i aint funding his ethnic cleansing campaigns OH NO
WE DON'T NEED
THAT FASCIST GROOVE THING
you cant disco
in jackboots.
SILLY REAGAN
Always struck me as weird
that David Cameron is apparently a Smiths fan.
some people are just thick though
and it's quite likely he's yet another over-educated toff with a brain for one thing that's absent from another aspect of life.
It always bothered me
that Public Enemy were responsible for some very dodgy lyrics - anti-Semitic for example - but the pure quality of the music just overcomes that. I suppose its often just a question of whether the music, as in that case, is good enough that you can't possibly say no.
I find
that I'm quick to spot an agenda within things and so it's part of my natural filter to weed out what I find abhorrent.
That said, I can usually sympethise with an artist who is attempting to fight the authority that causes their anguish whether I agree with their artistic methods or not.
I have an agenda in the music I make
I am particularly opposed to 'artists' whose agenda is outright commercialism
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I have no problem with 'artists' whose agenda is outright commercialism, as long as they don't refer to themselves as artists, and don't pretend they have any particular creative leanings.
Otherwise they're like gay rights campaigners who fight for the right of gay people to be beaten to death with baseball bats.