StocktontoMalone wrote:I don't want to hear about Jon the humanitarian.....about the hungry and working men. I want to hear about holding on to what you got, and six-strings in hock. About blazes of glory and rockin' a million faces.....
double ::YAWN::

Music is a form of expression and there have always been songs that express how the writer feels about many things...love mostly, but also whatever is going on around them. It's a form of storytelling that others can relate to. Folksinging is all about telling a story....african slaves singing in the field...minstrels strolling cobblestone streets.....songs written due to repression as in working in a coal mine...etc.
Even purely instrumental music is intended by the writer to convey a feeling that some can connect with.
So anyone writing songs now about their view of the world around them...even if it's about the working class or political in nature....it is nothing new.....they are actually carrying on a long tradition in music.
So, although these types of songs may not speak to you, they do to others.
