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Old 05-09-2006, 09:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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A lot of times politics will become a band/artists main goal, and the music suffers because of it. Also people who get their political opinions from music,as many impressionable youth do are making a terrible mistake. Political songs are cool, but you need to check what your listening to. For instance any political insight in American Idiot is old, redundent, and simply a reflection of popular opinion from Green Day's key demographic buyers. It doesn't challenge people to think differently, as a good political song should. Also political insight in an album like The Glorious Burden is non existent, because people tend to confuse history, and patriotism with right wing politics.
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