I am once again reminding people that it wasn’t unusual to have this sort of politics on the radio in the 2010s. It’s not ahead of its time, your culture just got fascist since then.
The Offspring had a song called Kill The President. It was played on public radio with no problems. Modern music is the outlier here.
[Image IDs: Image #1 Lisa Simpson presenting meme reading: Angsty 2000s rock bands like Linkin Park, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, etc. are legitimately really fucking good and consist of talented people who write genuinely smart and meaningful lyrics and who aren’t ashamed to be open and honest about the very real problems that they’ve gone through and there’s a good reason as to why they’re still going strong to this day. You guys are just cowards.
Image #2: Lisa Simpson presenting meme reading: Guys this post isn’t that fucking deep if u disagree then just don’t say shit. We live in a world where Ed Sheeran is a cultural phenomenon for singing about how much he loves women’s bodies I shouldn’t have to justify liking Linkin Park
Image #3-4: Tweets from Joanna (@/ trashCanWitch) on 16 out 19 reading: me @/ 13: I love linkin park!
me @/ 17: linkin park is so whiny lmao cringe
me @/ 24: early LP was teenage angst w/o the usual nu metal misogyny, and later albums were shockingly ahead of the curse on the anxiety of political turmoil, climate change, and imminent societal collapse
like I know I’m biased bc I stan since elementary school, but seriously I can’t believe that “god bless us every one / we’re a broken people living under loaded gun” is a line from something they put out in 2010 and not, like, last year
youtu.be/51iquRYKPbs
mainstream bands in 2019: no, don’t talk about politics lets just have a good time ahaha (sparkles emoji, peace sign emoij)
linkin park in 2010: *opens a song with a mario savio speech*
