I feel this song is the song of the times now that a draft dodger is running another war against a china backed country talking about reinstating the draft. Written in a fit of rage about the unjustness of the Vietnam War and that a senator's son had gotten out of the draft because he was a senator's son.

I'm really starting to see how much of protest music is really sung with false ironic positivity. Bruttosocialprodukt Geier Sturzflug, 99 Luftballoons Nena, or even more from the same band, Bad Moon Rising was about Nixon winning. All song with the false positivity that you would hear from your relatives or the media back then.

#musicispolitical #fortunateson #fuckthedraft

https://youtu.be/3RmQTYLD398
Fortunate Son

YouTube

Music is the voice of the unheard, the rhythm of resistance.

When the powerful forget their humanity, music remembers ours.

Now is not the time to play it quiet, now is the time to turn it up - louder than injustice, louder than greed - so no one can pretend they didn’t hear.

https://tonylongworth.bandcamp.com/album/not-my-america

#musicispolitical #soundofresistance #voicesunheard #turnituploud #protestthroughart #fightwithsound #musicforthepeople #louderthaninjustice #powerofmusic #artasactivism #politicalsoundtrack

Not My America, by Tony Longworth

8 track album

Tony Longworth

Music is the voice of the unheard, the rhythm of resistance.

When the powerful forget their humanity, music remembers ours.

Now is not the time to play it quiet, now is the time to turn it up - louder than injustice, louder than greed - so no one can pretend they didn’t hear.

https://elasticstage.com/tonylongworth/releases/not-my-america-album

#musicispolitical #soundofresistance #voicesunheard #turnituploud #protestthroughart #fightwithsound #musicforthepeople #louderthaninjustice #powerofmusic #artasactivism #politicalsoundtrack