Were there any popular Afghanistan invasion songs? I recall many songs such as Fortunate Son for the Vietnam war but I can’t really recall popular 2010-2020 anti war music.
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synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months agoHere’s a whole album full, from around the same time - KMFDM - WWIII
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Pretty much any punk song from 2001 onwards was anti-war on terror/Bush.
I’d personally recommend the album Mobilize by Anti-Flag, but that’s just my nostalgia talking, fucking banger album though.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nice song. But that’s from 2002, just like the other user which linked a 2006 song. They all seem to be before 2010.
Where did anti war music go from 2010 to 2020? Did being anti-war become unpopular or were they just less featured in our media? Or did people stop making anti war songs?
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
After the death of Bin Laden, a decade of constant warfare, and the machinations utter crushing of the leftist movement re: occupy, anti-wot protests, the GFC, etc., etc. we were all just burnt out. You still have generic anti-war songs here and there, but it wasn’t as pressing an issue for people.
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 5 months ago
America forgot it was at war in Afghanistan until the disastrous pullout. You gotta have awareness of a thing to rage against it
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
From my recollection, Afghanistan wasn’t singled out in pop culture music; rather the entire “war on terror” was lumped together.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Audioslave did some but they weren’t “mainstream” popular.
This one is more about Bush and the lame response to the Katrina disaster but Tom Morello said it’s a “finger-pointing song” and includes lyrics about trading lives for oil.
absentbird@lemm.ee 5 months ago
American Idiot by Green Day comes to mind.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The whole album Ashes of the Wake also about half of Rise Against’s discography.
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Don’t worry, you can still have plausible deniability - listen to their song Kunst and you’ll see the Depeche Mode meaning has been co-opted and muddied by the band. You know, for fun!