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I'll start. System of a Down.

Recently it seems like some people are JUST NOW realizing that Bring me the horizon is not Christian friendly and I wonder how many other artists can we put into the bag of "Wait, they were political this whole time?"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This thread has been reported to us. I've temporarily made the decision to keep it (other mods; feel free to override). While the question could have been phrased a hell of a lot better ("what are your favourite bands that people don't get the real meaning of?"), its a valid question and doesn't quite fall into the "offensive" rule.

Community: please stay civil. The fact that a song can be political does not mean it is worth debating if it's politics are correct. If discussion significantly devolves into personal attacks, bans will be issued regardless of partisanship.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Off topic: I love how clear you are in your articulation. I wish to develop this skill some day . If you don't mind me asking, how would one develop such a skill?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I must confess that you're the first person to tell that to me β€” English class was always a disaster! The only thing I can point to is practice: I have a blog here that I write at regularly. The other component might be luck? They say that a broken clock is right twice a day and I'm inclined to agree.

In any case, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Aww yall are cute :) eloquence is a skill one must practice regularly. I agree you are quite good at typing out shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Tay Zonday. Totally singing about non-political wholesome chocolate rains.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The only thing funnier than people thinking Pink Floyd is apolitical is people thinking The Wall was right-wing.

Also met a strange amount of republicans who like Rise Against. When I was first getting into them I saw someone say they turned out to be fash, so I asked for more info and it turned out it was because they said they didn't want racists, misogynists, or homophobes at their concerts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Daron Malakian and the Scars on Broadway

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

non political

SOAD

if anything this is a good troll 🀣 but ill bite:

soad is one of the bands you ask for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You g.. got a pen? Write this down:

Jazz for appreciating pro instrumentalists

EDM for work out

Classical for relaxing, getting job done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What if I want something relevant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Taylor swift got you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Green Day for sure. Although I did recently see a conservative post online, β€œwhen did Green Day start singing about politics,” so maybe they’ve gotten political…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Hahaha this has to be bait

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mate are you seriously saying System of a Down is a non political music act

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not wanting to die shouldn't be a matter of politics.

Edit: I'm dead serious too. Singing about culture, tradition, and real heroes for humanity fall more inline with folklore style singing. Which is a tier above politics. Don't ever diminish an artitsts work with the disgusting political label. And the "politics" of a certain genocidal nation are certainly debatable too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? They're just songs about nice things, like bringing your own beer to a party, jumping on a pogo stick and shimmying until the break of dawn, yeah. Oh, and cocaine. Lots of cocaine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like grabbing my brush and doing a little makeup in the morning to start the day

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this satire? SoaD is one of the most political bands I know?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'd put Willie Nelson in there, in large part because a lot of country listeners are right-wing and completely oblivious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want a music artist that is guaranteed to not come out in support of some political view, you should probably pick a dead one.

Alternately, you could sign up to udio.com or suno.com and generate some of your own. Since it's an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Since it's an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.

That is a very popular, but also very dangerous misconception. AI has all the same biases and opinions as the dataset it was trained on (and thus also those of the engineer who picked said dataset). Even if you just YOLO it by training it on "everything" and hoping it'll average out, whatever biases society itself as a whole has, the AI will happily perpetuate.

For example, folks wanted to reduce judge bias in criminal sentencing, so they created an AI... and then trained it on historical sentences. Guess what happened?


In reality, if you want to create an unbiased AI, you've got to go out of your way to carefully curate the dataset to deliberately remove bias, and almost nobody is doing that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Serious discussion: Rise Against.

Taking the title literally: Alestorm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Damnit Christopher, why you gotta be all misogynist?

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