VRWC
It's fine - even commendable - for artists to take a stand on social issues. My problem is that most of today's artists only take one side of the issue- the Left's. It ruins their crediblity, I think.
I heard a lot of mainstream songs in the 80's demonizing Ronald Reagan and America for the agressive nuclear build-up. But I never heard one popular song in sympathy for the Soviet poltical activists in Siberian gulags.
I have heard of mainstream rockers who push for pro-choice. It's a shame forty one millon unborn children aren't around to hear them.
Which popular artist stands up for them?
One other thing that bothers me: real activists who affected change never changed themselves. Ceaser Chavez, who championed rights for poor migrant workers, never ceased to be a poor migrant worker. Martin Luther King, who championed civil rights for African Americans, never ceased to be an African-American.
Bruce Springsteen, who champions the working class, has enough money so that he doesn't have to work another day in his life.
I'm sorry, but it smacks of poor crediblity, to me.