Carpe Mortem

I think we all agree that OP does in fact make a good point, and musical interests can certainly coincidence with political tendencies. Why exactly, though, is what needs to be drilled into. I think subgenres matter here. For example - fans of black metal I've known tend to be left leaning more so than fans of NWOBHM. Why is that?

My own primary disinterest in politics or exact definitions therein aside I'll admit I don't know much and never cared much about the political subgenres. Maybe it would be needed for this conversation. But that's what you're all here for.

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Guybrush

I don't care much for politics myself because there's so many idiots and tediousness involved.

We have a lot of different parties here, so when there are elections, I just go through the usual survey where I am asked how I feel about political issues. That survey tells me which party has the largest coverage of my political interests, so I don't have to go through the bother of finding out myself. Then I just vote for that party.

Party affiliations / loyalty undermines democracy anyways, so this works well for me. I end up somewhere on the left in this spectrum which, by american standards, probably means I'm more or less a communist.

I occasionally and intentionally listen to both punk and metal, but not as much as I listen to jazz.

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Carpe Mortem

Lol this is basically what I do re: the surveys. I tend towards freedom, but more aggressively in finances. That labels me a conservative usually.

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TheBig3

From the 70s/80s? Probably because they're older?


I don't think that's true. Take this stanza from Dragonforce

The chants inscribed on the ancient walls
[the tickertape of the Wall Street crawlers]
The screams of the past echo in the halls
[The 2008 financial meltdown]
Now the wizards arise from their watchtower in the sky
[The G7]

Metal is very political, I just think it's more subtle. When power metal talks about slaying the dragon, I think that's a metaphor for the consumer price index being too high.

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Frownland

In the u.s. a lot of these surveys are distributed by the parties themselves where the results are rigged to show them as the beat representative no matter the answers. Do you account for that or do yall have some cool survey distribution system out there where it's not an issue?

It's probably based on the Ho Chi Minh quote ("when the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"), they're clearly advocating for capital punishment.

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Guybrush

We have NRK which is a bit like Norway's version of the BBC. It's a whatchacallit.. Television and media house? With the mandate to provide entertainment, news, information to everyone. So for example they make programs for sami people and other ethnic minorities, deaf people and so on - things that a purely commercially driven media might not be able to or incentivized to do because it wouldn't generate enough income.

There are no commercials on their platforms. Instead, NRK's income comes from a fee imposed on TV owners. By and large, people support it.

For reasons kinda mentioned, NRK also has no political affiliation and so creates these surveys / questionnaires when it's election time.

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