I feel global political oppression or global wars usually produce great music but Macklemore might be the peak.
Nothing against him, some of his songs are good, but I expected real rage inducing stuff with everything going on. Or is this just the state of music as a whole?
So we are only talking about a hand full of artist that make money. Even then it has only been the last 25? years that bands have made money.
Bands in the, pick a decade outside of the last 90s-2010s, didn’t make a lot and still spoke out. It feels like everything is now algorithm sterile. And we haven’t touched the massive sellouts. Views>money>music