07-02-2017, 15:54
flinty Wrote:Well I think you need artists to whinge, complain, shout and scream about issues and maybe rock the boat. Better to have it then not. Must music dumbs down culture and creates a vacuous population full of apathy. Entertainment is Massively influential and helps shapes peoples thoughts, opinions, identities etc. Hollywood helps to perpetuate materialism, sexism and the objectification of women....................................and so on. So you need something in the art world to push against that superficial and debasing tyranny, otherwise we are pretty much fucked.
Yes that's true, whingeing is sometimes necessary and justified. But it's pretty easy to do, and not really setting yourself much of a challenge, to say "society is fucked". What specific things are wrong? That's what I'd rather they sing about. Even better, if they can sing about how they should be put right.
