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¡HEY!
¡TÚ!
¡Alimenta la máquina!
Trae a todos y haz que se arrodillén
¡no hay tiempo que perder!
Recuérdales a los esclavos que no saldrán hoy con vida
Dije:
¡HEY!
¡TÚ!
¡Envenena el pozo!
Mira cómo arde todo
Llévalos directamente al infierno
Tiene todo el mundo en sus manos
Fue bueno conocerte...
¡Todos hemos sido condenados!
¡Vamos!
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Si tuviera que elejir una canción para describir la relación que tiene el alcalde con la alcaldía sería con "Feed The Machine"
Edit: In case anyone wants to listen to them.
hiiii tell me the 3rd, 9th, 47th & 92nd song on your wrapped <3
Really disappointed rn to find out that "Feed the Machine by Poor Man's Poison was actually supposed to be about teh socialist dems making you stay home from Covid, and not the cool pro-worker anthem that I thought it was, or that many of it's fans thought it was, or that the songwriters might've thought it was.
Old post, but genuinely still upset about this. The song came on when I randomized my playlist and I felt so sad.
Doing more research into the subject of the band's politics, I found this
And somehow this makes it even worse. The fact that these very charged and emotional songs, like FtM, don't actually have anything to say makes it way worse. You make a song called Change, about how we need to change, but then lead along both sides to get needlessly restless about this supposed other.
Fearmongering the evil man behind the scenes saying "Here's to the greater good for all." when we can't even figure out who that evil man is supposed to represent, is just bullshit.
This song is already very popular with a lot of leftists, with most people having imagined it as the perfect song for their stories about greedy rich capitalists exploiting the workers, but then this song is also made to keep the far-right fanbase happy too.
And Rightoids interpreting songs wrong isn't new, but knowing that the song was made politically vague on purpose to appease the right as well as the left makes things like this frustrating:
Screenshot of a transcript from a really terrible Glenn Beck video. I don't encourage you to read the rest, as he finds terrible ways of linking the lyrics back to his agenda, but this just shows the damage this song is doing.
(Screenshot from Reddit Comment Thread) Imagine thinking that staying in the middle actually gets you anywhere lol. "We promote progress!... How we do that, we don't know!"
Oh, except for when they do let their actual politics leak out occasionally, like this.
(I guess the pro-choice band member from earlier didn't get much of a say for the last line, or he could've been lying about his pro-choice beliefs, or he's a pansy who doesn't truly believe in his ideals enough to object to a line like that being put in.)
Or this:
Tldr for the video, since I'm not linking it, Dave Portnoy is complaining about Governments making small businesses close down for Covid, with PMP quote tweeting it and confirming that yeah, FtM is supposed to be an anti-lockdown song, which still just frustrates me to no end.
I feel like I'm encouraging that behavior by streaming and listening to their songs, showing the algorithm that people want more of this band who doesn't have shit to say in their songs, cause they know they'd lose a big chunk of their audience for their center-right/far-right views.
And I still don't really know what to do. Even if I try to interpret the song the way I want, trying to reclaim it, remembering the original context just frustrates me. Rightoids literally think that at any moment we could be one socialist president away from living in a factory state that exploits the poor, rather than the more feasible and right-around-the-corner future of living in a Corporate dystopia that liberally feeds the poor to the "machine."
How do you reason with somebody like that? How do you reason with somebody for whom the boogeyman that their mind has made up has gotten so big and scary for them? How do you tell them that their boogeyman isn't there when they truly believe with all of their hearts until the day they die that the boogeyman is still there, waiting to "destroy the nuclear family" "destroy all that is good and holy" "destroy tradition" "destroy our hard work"
This reminder of what goes on in their mindset just sours the song so much for me.
Really disappointed rn to find out that "Feed the Machine by Poor Man's Poison was actually supposed to be about teh socialist dems making you stay home from Covid, and not the cool pro-worker anthem that I thought it was, or that many of it's fans thought it was, or that the songwriters might've thought it was.