WHAT ABOUT THE MORE RIGHT-WING MUSICIANS?
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WHAT ABOUT THE MORE RIGHT-WING MUSICIANS?
In all my research, I noticed that musicians are far more likely to come out and say they’re Labour supporters, as opposed to Conservative supporters. Finding an openly non-Labour musician was near-impossible. However, I did come across Daniel 'The Spaniel' Bostock who had spoofed Jake Bugg’s hit song, ‘Lightning Bolt’ to be about Brexit. It was a simple song about how Brexit voters are often misunderstood, and generally called racist. Below is his 'Park Life' parody, about how some people think disagreeing with Labour policies, Brexit, and closing our borders is racist.
Daniel attributes most of his popularity to the fact that he uses songs that are already popular to get his point of view across in a non-aggressive and funny way. This is especially important because of the agression on the internet making it hard to get your point across without being attacked, because as he puts it, "it's overwhelmingly left wing". Although, he disagrees with people who say musicians should stay out of politics, as it goes against 'everything he believes in', even if these musicians are contributing to
the left-wing narrative.
His songs have changed the views of some people, but he doesn't think that's necessarily hard to do with young people now, he said, "when you're young you're always looking out for people to look up to, so when you hear a song you like and it's got a message, you might just follow it because you don't know any
better really".