Results for “media distrust”

Songs

I'm Amazed

My Morning Jacket

A falsetto-driven meditation built entirely from the phrase 'I'm amazed,' the song lists private tenderness alongside public…

media distrust personal devotion vs. public decay spiritual/moral drift

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

R.E.M.

A torrent of disconnected images—natural disasters, media noise, Cold War figures, cultural detritus—gets fired off at…

information overload apocalyptic anxiety played as comedy media saturation

He Got Game

Public Enemy

This is a live-show excerpt built around crowd participation rather than a fully worked-through song, using the…

media saturation and control spiritual doubt and moral collapse authenticity versus empty spectacle

Batdance

Prince

A collage rather than a song, this track stitches film dialogue samples, chant-like hooks, and rapid genre-shifting funk into a…

identity and masquerade seduction and menace media spectacle

Waiting Room

Fugazi

Fugazi's signature opener frames stasis as a political and personal condition, staging a narrator stuck in a metaphorical…

patience versus action media disengagement self-discipline

Fight the Power

Public Enemy

A dense, funk-driven manifesto that treats mainstream American culture's chosen icons as instruments of erasure, demanding Black…

institutional racism Black pride and self-determination media and cultural gatekeeping

Back On The Chain Gang

The Pretenders

A meditation on loss disguised as protest, the song uses the image of a chain gang to describe how impersonal forces — media,…

loss and separation nostalgia powerlessness against institutions