“ I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. ”
I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
~ Thom Yorke
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
