Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier

Re:Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier by llamataboot on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:45PM (#19905244)

I mean, counter-cultures are complex in terms of what they question and what they absorb as immutable, etc. But arguably the 60s in the US and across the Western world were way more confrontational and itching-for-revolution than most counter-cultures are today.

I mean, let's not get distracted by the acoustic guitar, a lot of protest folk music was explicitly calling for the abolition of capitalism, the end of US military dominance, etc.

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Re:Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier by mc32 on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:02PM (#19905367)

The 60s and 70s were more than Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. It was Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and Motown, etc. There were protests and protest songs but it’s wasn't the majority. And Japan pretty much skipped the whole thing.

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