During the campaign, one of my favorite things to do was watch political music videos on youtube. Fun ones, dumb ones, serious ones. Anything I could find.
One genre of music that is mostly unknown by the general American public is industrial, and it's one of the most politically thought provoking types of music out there, in my opinion.
Industrial music gets kind of a bad rap mostly because of the clothing styles and some lifestyles that are associated with it. These are the concerts you go to and see people with gas masks on and chains and leather and glow in the dark everything, leaping around to a combination of bass beats and synthesizers that could only happen in industrial music.
But there is something that happens in industrial music that is easy to miss for those dismissive of its culture. This is music where the lyrics matter, and they tend to matter a lot. There is a very politically active core in the industrial genre, and it swings heavily democratic. I'm not saying this very small genre wins elections or anything, but when you're in an industrial club, you generally know what sorts of people you're going to encounter.
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