00:00:00hey welcome to watchmojo.com this week
00:00:04we’re going to be talking about protest
00:00:05songs now when we sat down to compile
00:00:08this list we here at watchmojo said to
00:00:10ourselves okay we’re going to put
00:00:12together a great list of top 10 protest
00:00:14songs and we realized that quite frankly
00:00:16a lot of these songs revolve around the
00:00:18Vietnam era a lot of these songs are
00:00:20really kind of 60’s and 70’s songs and
00:00:23and certainly that’s that’s um that’s a
00:00:26whole genre in itself and its really
00:00:27fantastic but we realized that that
00:00:29first of all that sort of list have been
00:00:31done before and in our ongoing quest to
00:00:34expand our horizons here at watchmojo
00:00:36and your horizons by extension we
00:00:38decided that we do a little something
00:00:39deeper and we would look at the top 10
00:00:41themes and motivators in history that
00:00:44have really caused people to write to
00:00:46sit down and write some of the most
00:00:47fantastic protest songs of all time so
00:00:50this segment is really where we go
00:00:52through and we ask ourselves okay what
00:00:55was going on at that period in history
00:00:56and what influence people to write who
00:01:00was a figure that we can really
00:01:01associate sometimes it’s figures then we
00:01:03can associate with that period or that
00:01:05movement and then we give you a little
00:01:07bit of music to round it all okay so
00:01:10here’s a great theme that really
00:01:12influenced people to write the Great
00:01:14Depression and why it’s yeah I mean a
00:01:17big reason that inspired people to write
00:01:19is it for for the first time really on
00:01:21record people were destitute people were
00:01:24homeless people were hungry and it was
00:01:26happening right in the United States of
00:01:28America and that was really troubling to
00:01:30a lot of people and that made people
00:01:31kind of stand up and go whoa what’s
00:01:34going on here who’s in charge how do we
00:01:36are allow ourselves to get into a
00:01:37position where we are now destitute like
00:01:39this and what is the government going to
00:01:41do to change this current situation how
00:01:43the most influential artists I think
00:01:45we’re going to talk about to do with the
00:01:47great depression is Woody Guthrie now
00:01:49Woody Guthrie is someone who I really
00:01:51like as an artist because not only was
00:01:53he able to talk about his era but Woody
00:01:56Guthrie is someone who fantastic protest
00:02:00songs writer later on look back to as
00:02:02sort of their guru for example a guy
00:02:05like Bob Dylan never stops talking about
00:02:07Woody Guthrie and and when it influence
00:02:09and impact he had on him and
00:02:11loan should she give you a she give you
00:02:13an idea of the type of guy when he
00:02:14Guthrie is as an artist and as a writer
00:02:15I think my favorite Woody Guthrie song
00:02:19is this land to your lab with jewels
00:02:22basically he was originally titled on
00:02:26Bless America and it was actually
00:02:27written in response to the sun god bless
00:02:30america you know and it’s something that
00:02:32will see very often today sort of like a
00:02:35satirical spin on a song or like an
00:02:38answer song sort of to you know an
00:02:40answer to something that has been put at
00:02:42my government or you know like in
00:02:45response to something that’s going on in
00:02:46society but definitely one of the first
00:02:48guys who kind of went out and said no no
00:02:51you know like you say God bless america
00:02:53well this is what I say god bless
00:02:55america is you know and then eventually
00:02:56as a result of like the shoes to do with
00:02:58like royalty ism you know and the names
00:03:00he had to he change the name of the song
00:03:03it’s certainly one of the first rebuttal
00:03:05songs ever which is why i think it’s
00:03:06worth mentioning
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