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.)
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.