From my recollection, Afghanistan wasn’t singled out in pop culture music; rather the entire “war on terror” was lumped together.
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Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 months agoWere 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.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
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.
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.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That makes sense. I was wondering if this could somehow be blamed on Justin Bieber and the Swifties but war fatigue is probably the cause.
Wonder if things will change or people are still in the “tired” phase.
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