I\'m Summer, a mouthy, sarcastic bitch. I\'m passionate about natural birth, long term breastfeeding, and living naturally. I curse too much, love tattoos, and will some day be crushed to death by my book collection. I homeschool, dream of gardening, and swing to the left. 
When Music and Politics Collide
I like my music politcal. That’s why I’m mostly drawn to old protest songs from the 60s and 70s and poli-punk of today. I like songs that mean something, that say something that I can get behind. Generally metal isn’t on my radar. Sure I can appreciate a little Kitty or Slipknot from time to time, but that’s not really style.
That is until I was introduced to OTEP over at Anachroclysmic. Check out those vocals. In a male dominated musical genre hearing a woman belt out stuff most of the guys can’t come close to knocks my socks off. And of course the lyrics won me over.
More capitalist crimes.
More enemies than allies.No WMD’s – who gives a f**k if they die?
Just kill ‘em all, watch ‘em fall,
Skin the world with their lies.It’s the rich man’s war,
But its the poor that fight.Stand up.
Speak out.
Strike back!Stand up.
Speak out.
Strike back!They don’t know, what they started…
CONFRONTATION!
However, Victoria Marinelli does more than just share some kick ass music. She also knows when to bring out the big guns. That’s probably why Erin (Queen of Spain) handed over her keys to Huffington Post and let Victoria call out a few people. Even if you’re not a metal head go read her post on why racism and sexism are competing. Both are destructive forces, surely the Obama supporters and Clinton supporters can come together to agree on that.
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if you like political music than Im sure you have heard of Rage Against The Machine. I like soem of their stuff, but my hubby is in love with them
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I love me some Rage.
I just spent all kinds of time reading link after link, following the one in your post. A white guy, any white guy, could run as a Republican for president and just sit back and let the sexism OR racism camps beat each other up and self destruct. I just listened to something on the radio last week where guests were literally listing off sexist or racist things their candidates (Clinton or Obama) had endured in a very perverse kind of competition. Ugh. As if we don’t have enough rage to share!
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You? Are awesome.
Now I’m having visions of converting more mommybloggers into metalheads, hee. (Though for the record, I’m as much into Ella Fitzgerald and Ani Difranco as I am into OTEP.)
There are lots more women doing metal these days… at some point I’m going to do a feature article on the phenomenon. But OTEP’s always going to be a top favorite.
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I think there’s a lot of great political music being made, it’s just that… it doesn’t get on the radio or the TV too often.
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