[Music]
hey welcome to watchmojo.com this week
we’re going to be talking about protest
songs now when we sat down to compile
this list we here at watchmojo said to
ourselves okay we’re going to put
together a great list of top 10 protest
songs and we realized that quite frankly
a lot of these songs revolve around the
Vietnam era a lot of these songs are
really kind of 60’s and 70’s songs and
and certainly that’s that’s um that’s a
whole genre in itself and its really
fantastic but we realized that that
first of all that sort of list have been
done before and in our ongoing quest to
expand our horizons here at watchmojo
and your horizons by extension we
decided that we do a little something
deeper and we would look at the top 10
themes and motivators in history that
have really caused people to write to
sit down and write some of the most
fantastic protest songs of all time so
this segment is really where we go
through and we ask ourselves okay what
was going on at that period in history
and what influence people to write who
was a figure that we can really
associate sometimes it’s figures then we
can associate with that period or that
movement and then we give you a little
bit of music to round it all okay so
here’s a great theme that really
influenced people to write the Great
Depression and why it’s yeah I mean a
big reason that inspired people to write
is it for for the first time really on
record people were destitute people were
homeless people were hungry and it was
happening right in the United States of
America and that was really troubling to
a lot of people and that made people
kind of stand up and go whoa what’s
going on here who’s in charge how do we
are allow ourselves to get into a
position where we are now destitute like
this and what is the government going to
do to change this current situation how
the most influential artists I think
we’re going to talk about to do with the
great depression is Woody Guthrie now
Woody Guthrie is someone who I really
like as an artist because not only was
he able to talk about his era but Woody
Guthrie is someone who fantastic protest
songs writer later on look back to as
sort of their guru for example a guy
like Bob Dylan never stops talking about
Woody Guthrie and and when it influence
and impact he had on him and
loan should she give you a she give you
an idea of the type of guy when he
Guthrie is as an artist and as a writer
I think my favorite Woody Guthrie song
is this land to your lab with jewels
basically he was originally titled on
Bless America and it was actually
written in response to the sun god bless
america you know and it’s something that
will see very often today sort of like a
satirical spin on a song or like an
answer song sort of to you know an
answer to something that has been put at
my government or you know like in
response to something that’s going on in
society but definitely one of the first
guys who kind of went out and said no no
you know like you say God bless america
well this is what I say god bless
america is you know and then eventually
as a result of like the shoes to do with
like royalty ism you know and the names
he had to he change the name of the song
it’s certainly one of the first rebuttal
songs ever which is why i think it’s
worth mentioning
hey welcome to watchmojo.com this week
we’re going to be talking about protest
songs now when we sat down to compile
this list we here at watchmojo said to
ourselves okay we’re going to put
together a great list of top 10 protest
songs and we realized that quite frankly
a lot of these songs revolve around the
Vietnam era a lot of these songs are
really kind of 60’s and 70’s songs and
and certainly that’s that’s um that’s a
whole genre in itself and its really
fantastic but we realized that that
first of all that sort of list have been
done before and in our ongoing quest to
expand our horizons here at watchmojo
and your horizons by extension we
decided that we do a little something
deeper and we would look at the top 10
themes and motivators in history that
have really caused people to write to
sit down and write some of the most
fantastic protest songs of all time so
this segment is really where we go
through and we ask ourselves okay what
was going on at that period in history
and what influence people to write who
was a figure that we can really
associate sometimes it’s figures then we
can associate with that period or that
movement and then we give you a little
bit of music to round it all okay so
here’s a great theme that really
influenced people to write the Great
Depression and why it’s yeah I mean a
big reason that inspired people to write
is it for for the first time really on
record people were destitute people were
homeless people were hungry and it was
happening right in the United States of
America and that was really troubling to
a lot of people and that made people
kind of stand up and go whoa what’s
going on here who’s in charge how do we
are allow ourselves to get into a
position where we are now destitute like
this and what is the government going to
do to change this current situation how
the most influential artists I think
we’re going to talk about to do with the
great depression is Woody Guthrie now
Woody Guthrie is someone who I really
like as an artist because not only was
he able to talk about his era but Woody
Guthrie is someone who fantastic protest
songs writer later on look back to as
sort of their guru for example a guy
like Bob Dylan never stops talking about
Woody Guthrie and and when it influence
and impact he had on him and
loan should she give you a she give you
an idea of the type of guy when he
Guthrie is as an artist and as a writer
I think my favorite Woody Guthrie song
is this land to your lab with jewels
basically he was originally titled on
Bless America and it was actually
written in response to the sun god bless
america you know and it’s something that
will see very often today sort of like a
satirical spin on a song or like an
answer song sort of to you know an
answer to something that has been put at
my government or you know like in
response to something that’s going on in
society but definitely one of the first
guys who kind of went out and said no no
you know like you say God bless america
well this is what I say god bless
america is you know and then eventually
as a result of like the shoes to do with
like royalty ism you know and the names
he had to he change the name of the song
it’s certainly one of the first rebuttal
songs ever which is why i think it’s
worth mentioning
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