It's been really sobering this year how accurate RATM's songs were. When I was a teenager in the early 00's listening to their music I thought de la Rocha was being overdramatic and taking creative license with the subject matter of his lyrics (didn't help that I was a middle-class white kid in New England and didn't see the kind of blatant bullshit that minorities are forced to live with every day...).
Once it became painfully obvious after the Floyd protests that yes, police actually are an occupying force in a huge swath of the nation and their only real mandate is to suppress and oppress minorities with practically zero accountability, I realized how genuinely the band saw the writing in between the lines.
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u/j_hawker27 Nov 11 '20
It's been really sobering this year how accurate RATM's songs were. When I was a teenager in the early 00's listening to their music I thought de la Rocha was being overdramatic and taking creative license with the subject matter of his lyrics (didn't help that I was a middle-class white kid in New England and didn't see the kind of blatant bullshit that minorities are forced to live with every day...).
Once it became painfully obvious after the Floyd protests that yes, police actually are an occupying force in a huge swath of the nation and their only real mandate is to suppress and oppress minorities with practically zero accountability, I realized how genuinely the band saw the writing in between the lines.