| Manic Street Preachers – Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It sounds quite cynical, but it isn't. It is a sarcastic song about western hypocrisie. It is song about how capitalist media celebrates the virtues of western consumerist life, while at the same time it is build on lies. It sings about vices, that are celebrated by capitalism just becouse consumerism is the root of the contemporary system; even though those vices are actually real vices. In fact it isn't against freedom, it is against a perverted kind of consumerist freedom. "Freedom of speech won't feed my children", is also a call to arms against leaders who use democracy to legitimate certain illegitimate power relations. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Renegades of Funk (Afrika Bambaataa cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Actually. It was the first song that made me familiar with RATM. | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Renegades of Funk (Afrika Bambaataa cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Just another great cover of a great song. "Destroy our nations" |
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| Public Enemy – Bring the Noise Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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All I want to say is that Belgium isn't better. Every country has shit. Every country has it's own racial issues, more because of economic and/or social problems. In the US you have the KKK; in Belgium you have Vlaams Belang, an extremist party (heirs of neo-nazi groups) wiht 20% of the votes. In Antwerp they even earn 33% of all votes and at the same times you had racial murders, racial riots, etc. We've even had some kind of local Malcolm X (Abou-Jahjah). We have zionist lobby's who blame everything on the muslims. We've had concerts from the neo-nazi's from Blood&Honour. We have tensions between Dutch-speaking and French-speaking people. We have had problems from ghetto's from Paris. And still, if I walk in Antwerp, Brussels or another Belgian town I don't feel bad about it. I still feel safe; I'm not afraid of being mugged or raped. Maybe the USA is just a little paranoid? |
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| Public Enemy – Bring the Noise Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What does this song mean to me? I have absolutely no idea if it has a meaning in my situation. I'm a white, social democrat (in american terms: liberal) European boy. I don't understand what the fuzz is all about and maybe that says alot about America (or Europe). I couldn't care less about race or sex. A country that is really democratic doesn't discriminate between black or white, purple, yellow, red, green or pink. If America ever had a dream worth living to, it was Martin Luther Kings dream: a dream of equality, not of segregation. Sincerely, a concerned Belgian, fed up with the same racist shit in his own polarised country. |
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