Brittany Luce

I think about the chicks.

They're not folk, you know, per se, they're really pop country, but they were really, really vocal about their stance on the invasion of Iraq and their

opposition to the president at that time, George W. Bush, who was also from Texas, like the Chicks.

They famously said that he made them feel ashamed to be from Texas.

And a lot of stations stopped playing their music.

Exactly.

Shut up and sing.

But it got refashioned for protests, specifically in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

It's something that I think people still have an appetite for and still find that they need in times of protest.

Why do you think this style of music is getting popular on social media though?

whether it's the song or someone who's really good at putting together like a short, snappy political message.

I wonder if those are like a way of kind of like cutting through the noise of like the endless political spin that we obviously see on social media and pretty much every other channel of media that we have access to as people.

Okay.

So this music is getting, you know, popularized on lots of platforms, you know, but these platforms, whether they're social media platforms or music stream platforms, I mean, you know, last year, Spotify ran ice recruitment ads.

Yeah.

You can hear their statement about this at the end of the episode.

And TikTok became like a political pawn for the Trump administration.

They kept the platform from being banned and are helping facilitate a deal on its sale.

A lot of these companies do things that many artists are protesting as well.

Has any tension come up for these artists that you interviewed about where people are finding their music and engaging with it?