musical acts against the Republican standard-bearer
In partial defense of Paul Ryan…
In regards to the great controversy over his fondness for the music of Rage Against the Machine…
Best as I can tell, Paul Ryan did not use their music for a political event (which, unlike some acts, would be incredibly discordant — a Democrat is not going to use the music), so it does not belong on the listings of great Republican uses of music that clashes with the politics of musical acts… even as it seems destined to be stuck in these things…
and he threw out the clarifying “politics aside”, meaning he’s, you know, going to listen to the beat and super-impose imagined Ayn Rand love into it…
as is his right…
Meantime, the celebrities stock into the Trump Convention, (Duck Dynasty and all that), and for pop music we’re left with the as now stock Kid Rock comes into focus (and it was a Democrat at a previous convention who complained about Kid Rock’s theatrics — Zell Miller)… I suppose they could bring in Alice Cooper if they want Republican rock stars to appeal to the next generation up…
Though, naturally, you use the sports anthems and…
I see this poster. Members of Rage Against the Machine and members of Public Enemy and members of various other politically involved bands of yore on a “Make America Rage” tour. I flash back to 2004, when “Rock Against Bush” was all the thing — the “Get out the Vote” / slash / Musical Gatekeepers to get everyone a’voting for John Kerry as against George Bush or Hillary Clinton as against Donald Trump, even as some politics of some of them veer toward —
— well, Rage Against the Machine was big on Mumia Abu Jamal …