I was thinking about how Bruce Springsteen is the only artist I know of who has written a protest song lately and I was wondering if anyone else had any good recommendations since… 2016 or so.

Edit: so many great recommendations! Thank you all!

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’m liking him a lot.

    Back in the Vietnam days, it took a while for protest songs to get written, recorded, released, sold, and finally listened to by the target audience. That could take months.

    But today, a songwriter can compose a response to an atrocity that day, and instantly release it on numerous platforms, and be part of the actual conversation.

    Now we just need more good protest songwriters.