Bloodywood
I do not know much at all about the politics of India. Still, even a cursory viewing of the video for the song “Gaddaar” by Indian metal band Bloodywood tells me that this is freedom music.
They are sick of politicians. Rightly so.
They oppose fascism and communism. Rightly so.
They support religious freedom. Religious discord is a big problem in India, and I am sure they are fed up with it.
They are sick of modern-state nationalism (“NO FLAGS”). Rightly so again.
They are sick of corruption. They are sick of divide-and-conquer strategies used to distract us while elites game the system. They are sick of vote-buying demagoguery.
They are tired of the mind games and the lies.
They are angry. They have a right to be. We all do.
“Gaddaar” is an angry song in an angry genre. Like I wrote on a previous Friday, a lot of us started listening to harder music during covid—a reflection of our anger at the oppression and obvious psyop unfolding before us. Here in 2023, I still have a taste for the hard stuff, and “Gaddaar” is hard stuff.
Just as oppression is global, so is the freedom movement. More and more so each day, we all find ourselves realizing that our fates are tied together. So it’s good and right that we should be listening to each other’s protest songs.
Trump Latinos
As a bonus, I’d like to throw in a song by a band that someone just hipped me to: Trump Latinos.
I am not a big Trump supporter—indeed, as you know, I am not really into the political game at all anymore.
Nonetheless, it is important to recognize the increase in support Trump enjoyed among blacks and Hispanics, especially in comparison to his ideologically mushy predecessors John McCain and Mitt Romney. This fact got rather lost in all that has come since—covid, J6, allegations of widespread election fraud, and economic destruction—but I believe it is representative of an important phenomenon that goes deeper than just how people vote.
If people are open to shifting their votes, then they are open for an ideological and philosophical shift too. Freedom is for everyone, and no one likes having theirs taken. Sanity is popular with all cohorts as well, and it is becoming increasingly obvious to people in every cohort that whatever sanity was left on the left is being boiled away in a roiling pot of woke lunacy.
Thus, I always find it interesting when typical political patterns are broken, and it is reasonable to say that Trump Latinos do so. I suspect that you will agree with a fair amount of their sentiments, even if, like me, the aesthetic or music are not quite your thing.
Love the Trump Latinos!
Bloodywood is bloody brutal. That song is fire.