/music/ - Music

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How can socialists bring beauty back into the arts, especially in music?

Beauty has transcendent qualities which are as important for socialists as they are for Christians and the peoples of old. When you are surrounded by nothing but ugly, you start to see the world as nothing but ugly, and begin to lose faith in your fellow working man. Beauty thus builds a sense of solidarity between workers as much as it builds a connection between the spiritual and the material. "Beauty is truth."

Our music today is disgusting. Most of it is chaotic, distorted and off-kilter. Music sampling, which makes up the backbone of hip hop and electronic music, has turned producers into god-men and has completely destroyed the collectivist element of music creation. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, had public orchestras play for the people out in the open free of charge. China bans hip hop and teachers its youth classical music as any socialist nation should.

Beauty is crucial to socialism and we must use socialism to bring it back.

Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM

Really puts things into perspective.

Most of America clearly wants music that speaks to its wholesome, working-class values. Not rap or pop slop. Punk even less. With that said, why aren’t comrades making country music with explicitly class-struggle themes in order to win over the masses?

Call me woke, but I do believe XXXtensioncord’s popularity is what inadvertently lead to the rise in Gen Z conservatism.

X was frequently lambasted for being a wifebeater, misogynist, homophobe, New Age woo believer, social conservative (he spoke out against anti-racist activists), and pretentious asshole. The mainstream media didn’t want to touch him because he was too controversial. Yet, the more he was “cancelled” and despised for all his ills, the more it added to his allure among zoomers. X’s image was that of a deeply disturbed troubled genius whose pain and anger lead him to violence and nihilism. He was cold and cruel but that’s exactly what made him so appealing as a rapper to begin with.

This, I believe, was the gateway drug that turned a lot of zoomers (in particular, zoomer men) into far-right conservatives and fascists. All those zoomers who were listening to X back in 2017-18 while in middle school or high school voted for Trump in last year’s election. They are the same people who listen to Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, and Jordan Peterson. It’s identical to how all the Gen X nonconformists who idolizes Kurt Cobain went on to become a Big Tech innovators or how millennials who spent their teen years listening to emo rock ended up becoming SJWs (since the essence of emo music is trauma and mental illness/neurodivergence). It’s all because X was cancelled time and time again before he was clout martyred, then smeared over and over again after death. Zoomers who loves him saw that and began internalizing X’s persona as well as resentment towards a morally-obsessive cancel culture.

It makes perfect sense once you think about it.

Post em if you got em

It sucks not being Russian and being a fan of GrOb, like i love their music but their is no English spaces to talk about it, so it gets kinda boring. I hope this thread will allow people to talk about it, since its really underrated. (IM NOT A NAZBOL)

looking for sad ghostly country sounding music sorta like these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4rNkjnkWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGgoXZa5sQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqO7lu94Ix4

Materialist analysis of Michael Jackson?

When I look into his life, it seems glaringly obvious to me that he was both an obsessive artist driven by all the anxieties he suffered as a child, and a nefarious abuser. The allegations of pedophilia seem more and more evident. But there's a reason for this: Michael Jackson was the most famous pop star who ever lived, and all that money and fame made him believe he was a god-man who was entitled to everything and anything. Assuming the CSA accusations are true, it would be a telltale result of abuse of power.

Back in the 90s and Bush years rappers loved conspiracy theories, the Nation of Islam, liberally using "faggot" and "uygha", indulged in virulent misogyny, etc. Even in the early Obama years Killer Mike was rapping:

"Step and fetch funky ass, flunky ass uyghas
Dick in the booty for your Massa' ass uyghas
I don't fear no man
Not Bush not Clinton not Osama"

During the Bush years Immortal Technique had lyrics like this:

"But you know what the fuck I think is just pathetic and gay?
When uyghas speculate what the fuck 'Pac would say
You don't know shit about a dead man's perspective
And talkin' shit'll get your neck bone disconnected
Disrespected
uyghas don't show no love
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