Comment on The lack of "real world complaints" and "anger" in popular music genres helps keep the masses docile
Norgur@kbin.social 1 year ago
Dude, you are overthinking this. Like, you spent longer thinking about the alleged pacification of masses by agenda driven producers than said producers spent thinking about the songs in question.
There is no agenda and/or purpose behind this. You just made the mistake to assume your views on one of the most subjective topics possible (music) are fitting for music in general. That's not the case.
You might like a little rebellion, commentary, what have you in your music. You might like to express the issues that move you via music. Many others don't.
The charts are, what people are actually listening to, so don't mistake the charts for something that's only pushed by labels or something. It takes listeners and labels to push something into the charts.
That doesn't say that there are never songs of the critical variety in the charts or anything. It's just rarer.
the charts are what people are actually listening to
But this statement by itself is incredibly disingenuous. Artists and record labels literally have to pay Spotify to get their songs to be played in the algorithm. Yes, it is technically what people are listening to but it’s actually almost always which record company decided to break open their wallet the most for that particular song.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year ago
Fair points
Guess that’s why it’s a shower thought :P
Still, it’s something that I (over)think about every now and then, probably for dumb or wrong reasons.
galloog1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“And all she wants to do is dance.” Nobody ever remembers the rest of the lyrics.
There’s a great podcast called Wind of Change on if the government is involved in music and specifically that song. I’ve never seen it and most government programs are highly documented and focused on Hollywood by giving them access to resources. The US Army is not going to let you borrow tanks if you are going to put them in a bad light. That’s just dumb. This is actually one of my dream programs to become involved with on a personal level.