Breaking the Rules of Music
When it comes to movies, music and other forms of popular media, a good rule to follow is to keep politics to a minimum. Why? Because nobody likes to go to the movies, shell out ten bucks and be surprised as whatever blockbuster action film or family film or whatever kind of film is your flavor takes a 180 near the climax and starts preaching about how you need to hug trees more, pollute less and lie to you about how war is evil. If you’re in the entertainment business, you limit your audiences if you decide basing your career around your own personal politics. But if you’re going for that, then so be it.
First off, if humor is your flavor, you might want to take a look at the works of the Mike Church Show Band. It’s out to make a point and doesn’t pull any punches. If a politician is too liberal (Even John McCain), they bash them. But their music, as you can see on their Myspace page I’ve linked to, deals with a wide variety of political subjects. There’s even a video tribute on Youtube showcasing one of their better parodies:
Pretty good, huh? Well as it turns out, these guys have been doing music for a while. And their Myspace selection just so happens to be limited after all. Here’s some songs by the Mike Church Band that didn’t quite make the cut there, but still made their way online. Why is that? Because they’re both funny AND blatantly racist at the same time:
How about some musical humor that doesn’t’ qualify as hate speech? Let’s try another artist, Rusty Humphries. This guy still qualifies as politically incorrect, but at the very least he doesn’t used racist terminology like “wetbacks” or “towelheads” as much as he could. Like Mike Church, he’s also a conservative talk show host. But it doesn’t seem like he’s terribly into music. I say this because these parodies date back to 2006:
And if you’re not into humor at all, you just want your politics straight up without parodies… curse you, because you make me feel like I’m going against my better principals. For you, there’s Kathleen Stewart, whose foray into modern jazz begs us all to “Take back out country.” It doesn’t appear that all of her music is politically charged, but I’ll admit she’s got talent.
First off, if humor is your flavor, you might want to take a look at the works of the Mike Church Show Band. It’s out to make a point and doesn’t pull any punches. If a politician is too liberal (Even John McCain), they bash them. But their music, as you can see on their Myspace page I’ve linked to, deals with a wide variety of political subjects. There’s even a video tribute on Youtube showcasing one of their better parodies:
Pretty good, huh? Well as it turns out, these guys have been doing music for a while. And their Myspace selection just so happens to be limited after all. Here’s some songs by the Mike Church Band that didn’t quite make the cut there, but still made their way online. Why is that? Because they’re both funny AND blatantly racist at the same time:
How about some musical humor that doesn’t’ qualify as hate speech? Let’s try another artist, Rusty Humphries. This guy still qualifies as politically incorrect, but at the very least he doesn’t used racist terminology like “wetbacks” or “towelheads” as much as he could. Like Mike Church, he’s also a conservative talk show host. But it doesn’t seem like he’s terribly into music. I say this because these parodies date back to 2006:
And if you’re not into humor at all, you just want your politics straight up without parodies… curse you, because you make me feel like I’m going against my better principals. For you, there’s Kathleen Stewart, whose foray into modern jazz begs us all to “Take back out country.” It doesn’t appear that all of her music is politically charged, but I’ll admit she’s got talent.
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