antti 🌊💆‍♂️ on Nostr: "Why do populists so often use the work of artists who despise them? Because they ...

"Why do populists so often use the work of artists who despise them? Because they don’t have any good songs of their own" https://mastodon.scot/@patrickhadfield/112144622549350509

quoting note1qwu…zks9

"Tubthumping belongs to the guests at the wedding who sing it in celebration. It belongs to the Italian anti-fascists who sing it in defiance on a demonstration. It belongs to cancer patients going through chemotherapy, seeing every successful bout of treatment as a personal victory. I know that all these people have taken the song as theirs, because they write to tell us. This is how songs become “folk songs”: songs that belong to our shared histories..."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/my-band-hit-tubthumping-is-the-latest-working-class-anthem-to-be-co-opted-by-populist-politicians?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other