To piggy back off your comments though, sometimes political messages aren't directly about politics.
Mellancamp's "Rain on the scarecrow" is about the loss of farmland in america's bread basket. Thats a song that paints a pitcutre of how things are, but only tlaks about the farmers, not the way politicians are ignoreing their needs and outsourcing jobs like famring. You're made awre of it, and thats rather political in itself.
Also, Fogerty's "Have you ever seen rain" which doens't come out to say anything directly, but has its foot in political motivation.
The tough thing is to ablance message and music. I like "American Idiot" because the music is pretty good, and has a great vocal melody.
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