I feel global political oppression or global wars usually produce great music but Macklemore might be the peak.
Nothing against him, some of his songs are good, but I expected real rage inducing stuff with everything going on. Or is this just the state of music as a whole?
Muse, maybe? Or even just those bands from the past again. Nirvana and Soundgarden and shit are constantly used in gen z tiktok memes.
But this generation is also more outside the box with where their content is coming from. There are musicians on Tiktok that are not present literally anywhwre else and have yet to release commercial albums I know are at least particularly popular on the platform from everyone I know who actually uses tiktok.
casual Muse fan and listened to a few RATM songs, I guess? Muse still do political songs but even their old songs isn’t as charged as RATM old songs. That’s the era where when they were smaller they’d be more daring is my reasoning for that comparison.
When Muse returned to perform in Malaysia on the WOTP tour, heard rumors that they took out We Are Fucking Fucked upon request. But even when I fainted for the last 4 songs listening back to the setlist that song doesn’t seem to fit IMO
edit: I’d l0ve to explore TikTok musicians but the problem is they’re on TikTok. still holding on not making an account there