0 sats \ 10 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 21 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Stacker News - Meta Music Monday! meta
Same it's mad how much we missed when we were young. Like RATM - Bulls on Parade. I had no idea that was about military spending in the US. But I was a ... Not American teen ... In .... Not America... Clearly I did not listen hard enough to what de la Rocha was actually saying.
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I think that may have been a "know your audience moment" COVID was a divisive topic. I think it was almost smart PR by the band to not get involved and potentially piss off half of their fan base.
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Was that the least controversial part?? 🤣 In some places (cough UK) they still haven't repealed the laws that allow curfews to be enforced. Nor the ability to enforce a lockdown for whatever reason they wish. Somehow that's flown under the radar. It's technically legal to arrest someone for being out beyond a curfew that no longer exists. I think they'd have a really hard time enforcing and or prosecuting for it now. But the fact it's still there raises eyebrows for sure.
But yes the musicians who tend to represent the voice of the public (at least far better than politicians) seemed to prefer to stay suspiciously quiet. Like you mentioned... Some might call that selling out.
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Me neither. With it being such a divisive topic I also don't intend on getting into one with other users today. But I will say... Lockdown for me was no different to my normal life. I was one of the few that still had to go to work anyway. So for me. Nothing really changed. Got up, went to work, went home, did the same stuff I'd normally do. I also lived in a fairly isolated area, sooooo yeah me going out for a walk I'll be lucky if I see 2 other people on a normal day let alone a lockdown. Essentially, perhaps to me because I was largely unaffected by it, what I saw was more people up in arms about it.
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Aye, that's why I'm wondering if the lockdowns were the least controversial part. A lot of people were hugely affected. And I guess I saw more people shouting about lockdowns than I did anything else because comparatively it was not much worse than normal stuff for me. But i absolutely can see how people without good access to green spaces for example living in tower block apartments would have really struggled with it. It's probably people like that who I'm thinking of when I say, there was a lot of people making a lot of noise over lockdowns.
Just wanna stop a sec and acknowledge this interaction and props to you for it, at no point along this discussion on a controversial topic have I felt like you've been dismissive or offensive and that is rare in an online exchange. So thank you for that.