Dunno who deserves credit for this, but a friend sent me a link to an anti-ice video on someone’s insta (Ice-T performing live with updated lyrics for his song “Cop Killer”). This was also posted there, so I’ll link to that page. No idea if that’s who made the image or if they borrowed it from somewhere else.
He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means
The same way you hear Springsteen howling “Born in the USA” or Young screaming “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” and think these are celebrations, not indictments.
You don’t listen to the words.
“It wasn’t like this when I was young, but now everyone is woke. People are claiming that a song like ‘Take the Power Back’ has some sort of political message. What message?! Is it recorded backward or something? Because I don’t hear it,” said fan Trent Linden, who claims the band needs to go back to their apolitical message they espoused when he was a teenager. “Or in ‘Killing in the Name,’ when they said ‘Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me,’ that was just about telling your mom you don’t want to clean your room. That’s why we all related to that song back then. Now everything has to be political. What’s next? Collaborating with someone like Michael Moore?”
The resistance is going to be in for a long, brutal, deadly slog this time around, but at least we’ll still have the best tunes. They’ll never take away my mp3s.
How do you grow up being popular for singing a song called “Cop Killer” and end up spending your life playing a cop in the longest running copagana?
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To be fair those cops are all highly unethical and often violent, so it tracks.
So… realistic?
Not really - real ones don’t actually care about justice anywhere near as much as the TV ones do.
Hell, even old school country had a punk rock ethos. Listen to 16 tons fo what I mean.
yep, and the south used to be far more pro-union back during the coal miner wars, of which there’s some pretty cool country songs.
woody Guthrie - tear the fascists down
Jesse Welles also has a great song good vs ice
