I listen to probably a majority of communist songs though I really like Lyubeh (related to the soviet union but not communist), IU, Gfriend, TWICE, (don’t fucking judge me) miscellaneous klezmer bands, recently teresa teng, as well as various video game osts. (persona 4. yokai watch, etc.)
Almost nothing I listen to is communist lmao. The closest I come is punk, which is usually anarchist.
My top 5 artists (in no particular order) are Green Day, Silverstein, the Beatles, Taylor Swift and All Time Low.
Please enlighten me of what “lefty music” is?
Communist, Anarchist, socialist music.
See: The Coup, Rage Against the Machine, Immortal Technique, etc.
Pretty much anything that doesn’t have obscenely terrible lyrics (unless it’s in a language I don’t understand), or blatant pro-capitalist shite; I prefer fast-paced music so I typically increase the tempo. As you mentioned, many video games have really good soundtracks.
I’ve never really felt the need to politically label my music
Then your music wouldn’t be what they’re referring to. Plenty of artists do though, such as The Coup, Rage Against the Machine, Woody Guthrie, Immortal Technique, etc.
Why would you choose to repeatedly listen to music that is purposefully against your political beliefs?
This post reeks overall like troll post but I appreciate your optimism
This is a year old post in a communist instance.
The poster is asking what non-political music people here listen to, because it’s a given that everyone here listens to some amount of explicitly communist music.
This post was not fucking made for liberals.
Thanks for the context, only know what I know and I miss what I miss.
I didn’t either until I played heart of iron and heard bread and roses for the first time
Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef, Swans, Black Flag, Bach, Frank Ocean (idk what he believes) are some notable ones
Black flag is generally leftist, with a lot anarchist themes. I mean, their name is black flag lol
I would say 80% of music I listen to is American rap/hip-hop, a major chunk of which is some of the most pro-capitalist music I have ever heard. I love rap/hip-hop to death, if it’s good it’s good and honestly even the very pro-capitalist stuff is a really beautiful vignette into how fucked up life on this Earth can really get and is almost unintentionally anti-capitalist if you are willing to interpret art outside of the artist’s wishes.
That said there is also plenty that is what I would call “socialist without the vocabulary,” and plenty that has a variety of aspects (most people aren’t that political anyways and are contradictory and half-baked to a critical communist).
So in a way we are opposites, as I listen to next-to no socialist music, although I’m always glad to hear based themes in my favorite artists: I really think XXXTENTACION could have become a socialist and was already halfway there. Kendrick Lamar too if he could get away from all the hotep thought and stop talking to Obama. J. Cole if he could stop being a damn liberal. Kanye West of all people had a guest on his recent album that briefly shittalked capitalism and I mean hey, this was an album that Ye was very picky about repeatedly changing it last second and rererereleasing it later and later so I don’t think it was an accident, even if it’s just motivated by Donald Trump betraying him I’ll take it. Not a recognizable name to many here I’m sure but I still reserve hope for Lil Darkie and his entire wave he’s bringing into the alternative scene even if in his head he’s terminally addicted to IDGAF anarchy (as in “burn shit down” anarchy) as a worldview; I plan on reaching out to him several times at certain milestones of my career, I would love to change his mind as he holds a lot of clout with a lot of very apathetic and edgy teenagers (as a lot of alternative artists do). There’s a lot of other artists I also have my eyes on, politics-wise.
Idk, I think the rap/hip-hop world was duped hard into buying into Woke Capitalism, but a lot of them are reaching back to their anti-capitalist Black Panthers-esque roots and are starting to shake it off, slowly but surely, inshallah.
Other than that, I love electronic stuff, alternative rock, some metal, some classical, some blues, a shitload of OSTs (cheers) and a couple other miscellaneous or hard-to-define genres.
why the hell does this have so many down votes the dude just asked a question f a yall lib haters yall are trump enablers. dude asked a question about music and yall hurt his feelings. that’s rude as heck man
TIL some people think there is lefty music.
Oh I definitely recommend Rage Against The Machine. They’ll be right up your alley.
