In a recent podcast we lamented the fact that few younger artists seem to be writing about the malaise that the world is in now. There is no anti Trump anthem, no pro Brexit one unless you count Mike Read’s UKIP Calypso. Do younger artists write about the big political ideas anymore or did they really ever? Why is it that Neil Young, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello or Paul Simon have a crack at it – it can’t simply be because hay have safe careers that won’t be hurt by backlash from traditional and social media. Did the furore over The Dixie Chicks incident have that deep an effect and made people just shut up and sing? Or are artists that are writing the modern equivalent of 911 As A Joke, Masters Of War or even Eve Of Destruction just not reaching wider audience

At a time when politics has never been more at the front of everyone’s lives as it has been recently why are musicians so silent? Maybe they are just preaching to the converted

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