Mainstream protest songs?

reaperducer · 2025-10-28T21:20:22 1761686422

Mainstream protest songs?

The last century was full of them. From Bob Dylan to Marvin Gaye to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to Sting to U2.

There were probably hundreds that made the Top 40 charts.

marcosdumay · 2025-10-29T01:35:04 1761701704

Hum... Have you not noticed the problem?

That's exactly the kind of stuff everybody is saying that doesn't count. It's not deviant if everybody is doing it.

satellite2 · 2025-10-29T02:28:11 1761704891

Your meta-analysis is one degree too high. You were going to have the long tail anyway. It just shows there was an interest for the deviant.

foul · 2025-10-29T14:58:21 1761749901

That's a folk music wave, a conscious soul album, conflated with more pop social commentary. Not much protest songs. Products made out of popular discontent. Now if you said Woody Guthrie... But in pre-war times was there a non-mainstream?

The only thing that this may say is that in USA the regime fights dissent in mainstream media. Like, if you want to catch signs of a product made out of popular discontent, you can't e.g. find in UK charts the Sleaford Mods or Kneecap?