Political pop that could actually change the world

[imomus]

Eminem Mosh. He says 'Fuck Bush'. He says 'No more blood for oil'. He says 'Kerry on, give me hope'. He says 'Vote on November 2nd'. And the imagery in the video says a lot more. A message like this, from a star as big as Eminem, could actually change the outcome of the US election. Who says pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame? Who says that nothing anyone says makes a blind bit of difference? As brilliantly political as anything Bob Dylan did at the height of the 60s protest boom. Positively Brechtian.

Comments

Re: pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame...

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought this was the big comeback single.

Re: pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame...

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, that was the one where he makes fun of Michael Jackson, wasn't it?

Re: pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame...

[theophile.livejournal.com]

it was sad and sobering for me to hear Eminem ask "what else can I possibly do to make noise" and then answer himself by dissing Michael Jackson and making a fart joke-- kind of drove home the fact that it hadn't been a rhetorical question. :(

Re: pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame...

[hotbeatz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't have MTV, but I've only heard Just Lose It on the radio & in the air. Friends in Canada, and Europe seem to be getting more Mosh, which is perhaps unsurprising.

Re: pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame...

[caoilte.livejournal.com]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/10/26/eminem_picks_wrong_candidate_for_release/

admittedly that's all i've read on it.

Re: pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame...

[theophile.livejournal.com]

that article seems hopelessly naive about the current state of the music industry. artists do circulate material through the wonders of the internet these days, and given that there's very little chance of "Mosh" getting played on MTV (though I've already requested it on TRL; find a link here (http://www.musicforamerica.org/node/view/63521) along with a better-quality video file) I think this may have been his best chance of properly circulating the music. I mean, hell, it got a writeup in imomus's journal, didn't it?

[caoilte.livejournal.com]

that article seems hopelessly naive about the current state of the music industry.

I wasn't aware the article did pass judgement on the current state of the music industry, I was just suggesting to imomus that lipstick and makeup don't mean balls.