"It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" To paraphrase a more-than-30-year-old song, it could be the end of the world as we know it. The fear that the earth might not be what it is now in 12 years’ time is all too real.
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Online and in real life, people are talking about how to reduce their carbon footprint, and how to put pressure on corporations to do the same. The United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement two years ago (and remember the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the CEO of ExxonMobil). Jair Bolsonaro’s fascist regime has refused funding to save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Greta Thunberg has become the face of a worldwide movement to save the planet before it is too late. More pertinently for what I am writing today, we are in the middle of a climate emergency.
Brexit is looming, with no clear plan as of writing. We are halfway through the Trump administration, and global right-wing politics continues to be on the rise with the election of Boris Johnson.
Very late into her latest album "Titanic Rising", Natalie Mering AKA Weyes Blood sings "don’t cry, it’s a wild time to be alive" and I am not sure if I have found any other lyric this year that encapsulates so perfectly what it is to live in 2019. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. We need your consent to load this YouTube content We use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Pixies warned that "and if the ground’s not cold/Everything is gonna burn/We'll all take turns/I'll get mine too". Joni Mitchell famously sang about how "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
Bands like Dixie Chicks, The Clash, Rage Against the Machine and Sleater-Kinney have railed against misogyny, war and conservative politics in their work. The struggles of the American civil rights movement, white supremacy, and institutional racism reflected in the likes of Marvin Gaye’s "What’s Going On", Public Enemy’s "Fear of a Black Planet", Sly and the Family Stone’s "There’s a Riot Goin’ On" and Beyoncé's "Lemonade". Popular music has, and always will be, informed by the political and social contexts from which it emerges. You can subscribe to the Brainstorm podcast through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. This article is now available above as a Brainstorm podcast. Analysis: from Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood to the 1975 and Matmos, pop stars are showing it's a wild time to be alive to observe the end of the world