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Originally Posted by Soulflower
But back in the 70s and 80's some of the biggest hits were political and social conscious songs.
"Say it loud I am black and proud"- James Brown
"You Havent Done Nothin" Stevie Wonder
"One Nation Under a Groove"- Parliament/Funkdelic
"Whats Going On" Marvin Gaye
Why can't they be big hits today?
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
In the 70s radio stations were individually owned and didn't have to answer to huge corporations.
Clear Channel (iHeart radio) was founded in 2008 and has revenues in the billions based on advertising dollars. They currently own over 850 of the major stations in the US and aren't going to tolerate anything that their advertisers might find "uncomfortable" - like a song about the Ferguson shooting.
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Short memory SF?
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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