The recent chaos in the United States has reached a point where people can't understand it, and ideological lines have taken sides. Entertainment for the masses has also become complicated. From this I think of several musicians who have appeared in history and the practice of them expressing their beliefs with music. You can read it after dinner and kill time.
一 Sinead O’Connor
Sinid O'Connor will always be remembered for tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II in public during saturday night live on October 3, 1992. She did so to protest the Catholic Church's longstanding of evidence of sexual abuse by clergy, and she subsequently sang Bob Marley's War.
Two weeks later, she shouted the same lyrics at a tribute to Bob Dylan in Madison Square Garden, but this time her voice was almost drowned out by boos. Chris Christopherson said to her, "Don't get knocked down by those bastards. ”
Henide O'Connor replied, "I'm not knocked down. ”
Hined O'Connor has since spent her entire career rebelling, shaving her trademark bald head in protest against the objectification of women; she once said "I'm three-quarters heterosexual and one-quarter gay" in support of gay rights.
She even refused to perform at a New Jersey venue because they were going to play the national anthem before the show, and this time she offended Frank Sinatra.
Heined O'Connor said: "I don't do anything to cause trouble, but it just so happens that what I do will naturally cause trouble." ”
Two Victor Jara
It is clear that Chilean folk singer Victor Jara's Song of Love and Justice posed a threat to the military leaders who came to power in a coup in 1973 that they had to kill him.
Victor Jalla's career began in the 1960s, when Chile was in political turmoil, with Victor Jalla supporting socialist Salvador Allende running for president, but then Allende's government was overthrown by the right, and Allende himself died inexplicably.
Victor Jala was then locked up with thousands of people in a stadium (the stadium is now named after him), where they were tortured by military police, who broke Victor Jala's hands and then mockingly ordered him to play guitar. At this point, Victor Jalla was desperately singing a political song that translated as "We will win."
As a result of his resistance, military police executed Victor Jara with machine guns and dumped his body on a street outside Santiago. In his honor, bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and Phil Oakes, among others, hosted a charity show in New York under his name.
Three Fela Kuti
Nigerian band lead singer Fera Kuti was so faithful to his political beliefs that he became king and established himself as a nation. As the leader of the black civil rights movement, he called his musical style "Afrobeat", and he refused to continue using his "slave" middle name "Lanthom", instead naming himself "Fela Anikulapo Kuti", the middle word meaning "death in his pocket".
In 1977, Fira Kuti released the album Zombie, in which he loudly criticized the tyranny of the Nigerian military, which led to the attack of thousands of soldiers on the community he had established, the Republic of Karakuta.
Soldiers burned down his residence and threw Fira Kuti's mother downstairs through the window, leaving her seriously injured. Fira Kuti, on the other hand, delivered her mother's coffin to the army general's barracks in Lagos; his subsequent album was called Coffin for Head of State.
四 Marilyn Manson
The young man, originally named Brian Warner, has crafted a person and a career for himself, gaining a somewhat absurd image through extreme weirdness.
His stage name is a combination of the sexy goddess Marilyn Monroe and the cult leader and serial killer Charles Manson, and the name gives people the greatest shocking effect. With horrific makeup and contact lenses making him look like a monster in his own right, Manson has built himself into an "antichrist superstar."
After the 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colorado, the dramatic rock star had to defend himself after allegations that his music inspired the killer (it later turned out that the killer was not a fan of Manson).
But the incident also made Manson famous, even representing a relatively rational voice, and he wanted to "make a little less irresponsible accusations against children who are different, because it will cause more discrimination." ”