It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.