What Nikki Haley gets wrong about music and politics

[applegrove]

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/nikki-haley-grammys-analysis/index.html

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But there's a big difference between personal annoyance and suggesting that musicians keep politics out of their music.

This has, literally, never been the case. Musicians, like the rest of us, live in the world. They react to it. Their art grows from it. Whether that's Bob Dylan writing about the civil rights movement or U2 shining a light on the fight against AIDS in Africa to Kesha giving voice to the #metoo movement, there's a very long line of musicians writing about the politics of their lives and times.

That's more true now than ever -- thanks in no small part to Haley's boss.

Trump's candidacy -- and his presidency -- represent a historic crossing of the streams: A pop culture celebrity and television star who suddenly is also the President of the United States.

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[applegrove]

1. Not to mention evangelical religion has gone all republican all the time.

[thegoose]

2. That's right!

Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, to name a few. Political history was transformed by such activist singers. Not to mention some pretty damn good songs, too!

[JI7]

3. She is fucking empty. She is worse than Sarah palin