The last time I wrote on this theme I was probably still just about young enough for it to be about me. Huh. Time is funny.
It’s hardly a new phenomenon that the government doesn’t care about anyone outside of its voting block of rich 45+ year olds, showing particular disdain for the population who either can’t or choose not to vote (the under 25’s mostly). But I don’t think any of us were expecting to find out that the Tories were fully prepared to let concrete structures which children spend most of their existence in potentially collapse on top of them because they didn’t want to fork out money to provide crucial renovations and buildings so that school kids could learn without being at constant risk of untimely horrible death. Honestly, it’s impressive for a country with as strict gun rules as us to still manage to find a way to risk so many children and teenagers lives on the daily.
Like, I’m not surprised – but it wasn’t something I particularly expected. This is beyond Austerity; this is nothing short of theft. Public money being invested into corrupt organisations which enrich those in power at the cost of essential healthcare, education and public services.
This is, of course, only the latest example of how the government and, let’s be clear, the 2019 voting public have wildly let down the current generation of youth. They were thrown under the bus during the height of Covid – forced back into schools as soon as the government could get away with it, making them become super spreader viral areas. Undermining all of their work to use an estimated formula to assign grades rather than teacher assessments in lieu of examinations. Engineering a voter ID system that deliberately favours pensioners and neglects younger people. Heightening student tuition fees and debts. Having a lower minimum wage for anyone under the age of twenty-fucking-three as if those people somehow have a lower cost of living than the rest of us.
It’s a tale as old as time, they are a frequently used scapegoat for the government’s problems as those under 18 can’t vote, and those over 18 tend not to vote (and even rarer do they vote Tory). So they’re a perfect target that can avoid placation without any hit to their perceived mandate to strip the country of all its resources, undermine any earnest attempts to combat the ever worsening climate crisis, which will leave the current and future generations living through unthinkable catastrophic conditions, all for the sake of having some numbers go up in their fancy bank accounts.
So, what better time for a playlist of politically angry and angsty teenagers doing what they do best and creating some of the defining musical statements of their generation.
There is a mixture of younger artists, and a few classics that encapsulate a sense of teenage rebellion in previous generations that is distinct but relevant to today. At least in my ever-aging millennial point of view.
If you want to listen to this playlist of disenfranchised jaded kids sticking it to the system, you can listen on:
- Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/yAwjR5TpurAhnBVv9
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JX0HmPAHZLrCDPk2FQGra?si=ed17e8a5d3a64618
- Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/e8adf7c4-bc75-4883-a75f-4b5d1bd2e91c
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGv_OFvoeqQtYl8dUdHsOq41HatAlkhnD&si=F1bsDL5r4EsYetrA
And for more information on why these songs encapsulate the revolutionary anger and resolve of today’s younger generation from the point of view of an enby pushing 30 – read on…
1: Brutal – Olivia Rodrigo
SOUR – 2021 – Pop Punk
“And I’m so sick of 17
Where’s my fucking teenage dream?
If someone tells me one more time
“Enjoy your youth, ” I’m gonna cry”
Kicking off this playlist with one of the defining musical stars of this decade so far – ex-Disney kid Olivia Rodrigo stormed onto the scene in early 2021 with a slew of singles each greater than the last, combining the pop songwriting of Taylor Swift at her best, with the Emo and Pop-Punk attitudes of the early 2000s and a rage reminiscent of the height of 90s Riot Grrrl.
Not exactly a complex political commentator, Rodrigo has instead with this track captured the crushing frustration and constant pressure of growing up as a child star. She channels her inner Alanis Morissette to deliver a… well, brutal barrage of angst and frustration at everything that’s expected of her whilst simultaneously being belittled and treated like a clueless child.
Easily my favourite track on this album, and really, it’s hard to think of a group of people more abused, manipulated and taken advantage of than child Disney stars. It’s refreshing to hear people like Olivia Rodrigo and even more recent Demi Lovato singing so openly and personally. As much as they are rich stars, these are important voices to hear (and actually hear, not just listen to through corporate producer and writers’ lenses).
2: the kids aren’t alright – Pinkshift
Love Me Forever – 2022 – Alternative Rock
https://pinkshift.bandcamp.com/album/love-me-forever
“My future isn’t clearer
And I’m forgetting why I’m here
And always what I ever came for”
In case you’re wondering, The Offspring aren’t on the playlist this year. They were on the last one I did in 2020, but the more I listen to it, the more I don’t think it’s really applicable to the theme. It showcases more about how differently lives can turn out than your expectations and dreams.
But The Kids Aren’t Alright by Pinkshift (not a cover) is a completely different and in my opinion more pertinent track.
First of all, it’s heavy as fuck, really turning riot grrrl up to 11 in terms of heaviness. It has the same introspection as The Offspring’s track, but also really captures the anger towards a society and world that has let them down and continues to do so. It’s an explosion of frustrated fury to all the historical life events and political turmoil they’re having to somehow survive, and yeah, that really fucks you up, and this is the perfect soundtrack to that feeling.
3: hope for the underrated youth – YUNGBLUD
the underrated youth – 2019 – Emo Rap
“I tie them up to the commas back in juvenile rhymes
And my eyes are about to blow
But that’s all part of this freak show
My personality got fucked up by the Adderall
Got called an alien for bein’ myself
I ain’t got the patience to be someone else”
The Underrated Youth was a landmark release of the 2010s, really pushing Yungblud as the national cultural icon he is and being an important figurehead for Emo/Pop Punk revival and integration into hip-hop in the UK.
This is a melancholic but uplifting anthem to his generation – what makes them unique, the struggles they face, and proudly being themselves, and most importantly confident in a bleak future because they’re in it, and they’re fucking incredible and make the world a better place despite older generations resenting them and seemingly actively trying to destroy it.
Yungblud really is the voice of a generation, and this is one of the most earnestly powerful tracks he’s ever put out (and if you’ve heard his back-catalogue, that’s high fucking praise).
4: Teenage Runaways – Hot Milk
The King & Queen Of Gasoline – 2022 – Pop Punk
“So can you really blame me now?
I just wanna burn it down
Wash out my dirty fucking mouth
‘Cause I know I’ll never make you proud”
Yay, a Manchester Band! I didn’t actually know them until this playlist, but they’re actually pretty big and pretty good too.
This song is fun – it’s got a Wheatus-esque rhythm and attitude to it, capturing a slightly more sarcastically arrogant side of adolescence than the other tracks so far. It combines hard rock distortion, pop punk sensibilities and a fun rebellious vibe contained in an earworm of a package.
Good stuff, need to check them out more.
5: Youth of the Nation – P.O.D.
Satellite – 2001 – Nu Metal
“There’s gotta be more to life than this
There’s gotta be more to everything I thought exists”
Okay I’ve pretended to be cool and hip for long enough (at least enough to not use the words cool and hip in that way). Let’s go back to my millennial credentials and put on the Nu Metal.
I actually never hugely got into P.O.D. – but this is a song that was hard to miss, and the more I revisit it and more I look into the band, they’re actually alright as far as I can tell. They’ve got the embarrassing shortcomings of a lot of the Nu Metal scene, for sure. But as an anthemic tribute to the terror American youths in particular have to cope with every day, to the kids who were failed by the system, to the kids struggling against everything they can to have a good life, this may be second to none.
As it’s P.O.D., there may be religious undertones to this that I’ve missed, but if they are they’re so subtle and inoffensive that you can comfortably ignore them. And honestly, they seem fairly chill from what I can tell. (Although my due diligence around bands and artists have failed before, so do tell me if there’s something terrible I’ve missed lol.)
But yeah, as a song, it’s very 2001, and I can’t speak to whether teenagers today would connect to it the same way millennials did. But heck, I know my audience is mostly my age, gotta have some millennial cringe bait in somewhere, and not just Limp Bizkit for a change.
6: Born as Ghosts – Rage Against The Machine
The Battle Of Los Angeles – 1999 – Funk Metal
“One book and forty ghosts stuffed in a room
Ah, the school as a tomb
Where home is a wasteland, taste the razor wire
And thought is locked in the womb”
Marginally cooler but just as Millennial-bait, Rage Against the Machine are a band who finds themselves onto our playlists fairly often. Few bands do political metal quite as well as RATM – and Born as Ghosts is an interesting kind of deep cut from 1999’s Battle of Los Angeles.
Unhelpfully, the only annotation on Genius just says “no clue tbh”. So much for cross referencing my analysis.
But the way I read this, “We are the children born as ghosts” could either mean: children born into such poverty and generational oppression that they are treated as invisible and not even really real (like ghosts).
Or, the darker reading is they are the generation born to die to the indifference of an uncaring state.
Either way the vibes are intense, and it’s a powerful rallying cry if ever I heard one. Well, all Rage’s songs are, that’s kind of their thing, but this is an underrated overlooked one, so check it out.
7: If The Kids Are United – Sham 69
The Adventures of the Hersham Boys – 1979 – Punk
“Freedom is given, speak how you feel
I have no freedom, how do you feel?
They can lie to my face but not to my heart
If we stand together it will just be the start”
Going waaay back now (although still not the oldest track on this playlist, sigh I tried).
This was recommended by a mate, and I think this track mostly speaks for itself. It’s a classic punk call for youth solidarity (which isn’t the same as compromise by the way). It’s an old track, but its relevance persists.
There is power in a Union, both in a literal and general sense. None of these fights need to be done alone – there is a VAST majority of people being fucked over by those in power. If A Bug’s Life has taught me anything, it’s that as soon as you realize that and are able to unite, you can overthrow those oppressive fuckers with an intricate mechanical bird made of sticks and keep all your food and crops for yourself rather than giving them to some dickhead grasshopper.
You may need to do some of the metaphor unpacking for yourself there, I can’t do EVERYTHING for you, god.
8: Teenagers – My Chemical Romance
The Black Parade – 2006 – Emo
“They said, “All teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone’ll bleed”
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they’ll leave you alone, but not me”
This one very nearly didn’t make the cut because “They could care less” instead of “They couldn’t care less” really irks me as a saying – but fuck it, it’s such a perfect bop for this theme.
I gave The Black Parade a re-listen recently, and I found that this song actually stuck out in a bad way. What is by all accounts a perfect 21st century Rock Opera by a band who deserve to go down in the hall of fame on the same level as Queen, really takes a swerve with this obvious standalone single track.
I’m not mad that it’s on the album, it works really well out of context, but in context… I’ve heard people try to justify it, as a part of the conceptualisations/narrative, but idk, I don’t buy it.
Regardless, I’m not reviewing the album (although if I was it’d be an 11/10 regardless). Teenagers as an ode to being misunderstood by the older generations and seen and treated as a threat, and in fact weaponised and brainwashed to murder for the same state that hates their very existence (a theme which will come up again in this playlist). This is perfect. You can tell this is written both from the perspective of someone who recognizes his teenage fanbase, as well as someone who was terrified of other teenagers even when he was a teenager.
Not to project onto my audience, but that seems like a vibe a lot of you could relate to. It’s also during the era where MCR were very much at the top of their game musically, taking the language of Emo and elevating it with world class compositions that will inspire musical practitioners in many genres for generations.
Just yeah… I don’t wanna be a grammar stickler. In fact I hardly proofread these blogs so I’d be a hypocrite to do so. But my attitude is always “If the meaning is clear from the context, then it doesn’t matter what words/punctuation are used.” But “Could care less” =/= “couldn’t care less”, and means an entirely different thing, so all messaging is thrown out of the window. 0/10 worst song I’ve ever heard.
9: Too Young To Die – Agent Orange
Living In Darkness – 1981 – Punk
“Well, I learned from my mistakes
This time, I will escape
I’m too young to die”
This one is a bit of a stretch, and not explicitly political, more I think recognizing dangerous behaviours and lifestyles as a youth and putting them behind when it all got too real.
I’ve kept it here because it’s short and sweet and I love the band. The chorus “We’re all too young to die” is I think a powerful statement in and out of context when we’re looking at how willing both this government and previous ones are to just watch children die as long as it doesn’t directly impact their own power.
10: Rotten Dichotomy – The Best of the Worst
Better Medicine – 2021 – Skacore
https://thebestoftheworst.bandcamp.com/album/better-medicine
“It’s time to let the bigots be taken down by the misfits
We will not agree to secede, this is our fucking time
As your generation crumbles, ours will begin to rise”
Thrown this one in for the last couple of lines alone if I’m honest. “This is our fucking time, as your generation crumbles, ours will begin to rise” leading into a brutal fucking ska-core breakdown. It wouldn’t matter what the rest of this song is about, that ALONE makes it an essential youth rebellion juggernaut.
Incidentally the rest of the song is also very good – although more about binary gender enforcement and how fucking bullshit that is, which isn’t inherently a young people thing, although is more and more prevalent with younger generations, so it still fits.
11: Youth Rebellion – Tribal Seeds
Youth Rebel Lion – 2005 – Reggae
“Let the youth live in peace
So chant
Youth Rebellion”
This was another new discovery for me, and I think the title more than speaks for itself. I’m not too well versed in Reggae, but this has lovely smooth beat and chill yet thumping instrumental tone creating a constant sense of moving forward and upwards, and impassioned singing about the rebellion of Youth along with the oppression of capitalism and slavery.
Definitely not a subject matter I’m qualified to talk about, but a voice and track that I’d like to elevate. This is great.
12: Revolting Children – Matilda The Musical Original Cast
Matilda The Musical – 2011 – Musical
“We are revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We’ll be revolting children
‘til our revolting’s done”
I haven’t seen the Netflix film adaptation yet, and I’m going to be a snob and limit myself to the stage musical soundtrack as it’s the version I’m more familiar with.
What better property to encapsulate youthful rebellion than Matilda? And, I have my criticisms of some of Tim Minchin’s work, but he really was a perfect person to score and soundtrack this into a musical, as is evident by the enduring impact of this work. A perfect story with a perfect composer for the role, there were many tracks I could’ve chosen for this theme.
I settled on this delightful late show song and it’s really fun double meaning of the word revolting, as an army of children band together to overthrow an abusive tyrant who tortures the staff and students at the school. There’s such a huge sense of motivation and triumph in this track, it really pumps you up and makes you feel like a 5-year-old taking part in a revolt to oust your least favourite teacher from their position of power.
Minchin nailed the vibe here, and the original cast deliver that vision with immaculate perfection.
13: We’re The Cool Kids – Ryan Cassata
Shine – 2016 – Indie Folk
https://ryancassata.bandcamp.com/album/shine
“Cause we’re the cool kids
We’re starting this movement
We’re the cool kids
You better get used to it
We’re changing things and we’re leading this movement
We’re gonna prove it
That we’re the cool kids”
An old favourite here, Ryan Cassata’s upbeat anthem of trans solidarity and hope captures a youthful drive for change, support, and dream of a better society for them.
Ryan Cassata has a knack for making incredibly upbeat and hopeful songs with an underpinning rage and righteous anger under the surface that lends a certain authenticity to the message without rendering the song inaccessible to the more moderate audiences as well.
As such, Ryan speaks to a huge range of people with his songs and this is no exception. Not even just the kids, but very much focusing on their point of view and the amazing societal changes they’re already leading on, bucking the expectations and rules of bygone generations, and paving the way for a queer inclusive future utopia that we all desperately want to see come to life.
Ryan is a damn cool kid, and he’ll make you feel like one too. Even If you’re a 47-year-old. If this music speaks to you, you are also a damn cool kid.
14: From Underdog Kids, to Every Rad Fem – Hunting Hearts
Pride Not Prejudice – 2019 – Alternative
“I’ve been punched to the floor
And I’ve been kicked in the face
Now I’m opening doors
For the kids who never found their place”
I promise this isn’t just a playlist of songs with the word “kids” in the title that are actually about trans stuff than specifically the suppression of youth voices.
But you would have to be pretty short sighted to not realize how intrinsically linked those concepts are. Trans people have existed for generations of course, but it really is Gen Z and younger millennials who have been expanding the lexicon and mainstream awareness. A lot of the worst transphobes are very much directing their disdain at trans kids. (Or even worse, pretending to be protecting trans kids by invalidating their gender and keeping them boxed into their assigned one decrying any trans kid as a victim of some kind of imagined grooming, but y’know, insisting they dress and present hyper in line with the shape of their genitals? That’s fine.)
Like We’re The Cool Kids, From Underdog Kids to Every Rad Fem captures a youthful rebellious attitude of confident hope and solidarity, combating feelings of being alone in a hostile world, loudly belting along the chorus that refreshes your very soul in the wake of this oppression. Great song.
15: Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues – 1958 – Rock ‘n’ Roll
“I’m gonna take my problem
To the United Nations
Well, I called my congressman
And he said, quote:
“I’d like to help you, son
But you’re too young to vote””
By far the oldest song on this playlist, maybe it’s counterproductive to include a single that if it were a person would be a Baby Boomer on this tribute to Gen Z and Gen Alpha rage, but Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues is a short and sweet early Rock track that’s very upbeat and dancey yet brutally critical of capitalism and worker exploitation in a way that makes it depressingly relevant today.
Eddie died at the tragically young age of 21, releasing this song barely out of his teenage years, so while it is music from a bygone era, it is full to the brim of teenage rebellion in its own 1950s aesthetic. The line about the congressman refusing to help because the kid is too young to vote is particularly relevant to this topic.
Timeless in every way but recording quality, a true classic.
16: Children of the Grave – Black Sabbath
Master of Reality – 1971 – Heavy Metal
“They’re tired of being pushed around
And told just what to do
They’ll fight the world until they’ve won
And love comes flowing through”
Can’t go wrong with a bit of Sabbath. Not the most political band out there, but they have their moments, particularly when touching on themes of war. Children of the Grave takes that theme of War protests specifically, celebrating and egging on the newer generations of activists making their voices heard and spreading love instead of the mutually assured destruction of nuclear warfare.
Sure, it’s a bit hippie, but it’s definitely nice when generations do start to age and be encouraging and excited about what the next one will do, and how they can work together. It’s certainly something I’m thinking about and trying my damned hardest to do. Already I’m seeing some of my generation really belittling and undermining Gen Z using stereotypes and tropes that were being used to undermine us barely half a decade ago. We can do better.
17: Youth Gone Wild – Skid Row
Skid Row – 1989 – Glam Metal
“They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial
We walk an endless mile, we are the youth gone wild”
I genuinely never thought I’d have a playlist with any Glam Metal on it. It’s such a skeevy genre popularised by sex pests and typically characterised by incredibly dated songwriting and bland musical compositions.
And I don’t know enough about Skid Row to know if they are also those kinds of people (a cursory glance doesn’t flag anything too awful, but I’ve missed stuff before). So take this endorsement with a pinch of salt when I say that purely based off of this song, they’re actually pretty damn good.
Maybe it helps that they’re a bit of a later band in the genre, so they have a little bit of 90s edge and heaviness that is missing from a lot of the other titans of Glam and manage to make it work.
Maybe it’s because their lyrics feel actually earnest even when they’re not just singing about how much they want to sleep with underage girls (looking at you Motley Crue).
But whatever it is, yeah this track is cheesy, but in a fun way, and is absolutely oozing with confident celebration of youth values and lifestyle, standing up to older generations looking down on them for being who they are.
It is very probable when they were singing this song they were largely talking about partying and skipping Sunday school to the shock of their parents rather than anything politically driven, but the sentiment can apply to both if you’re enough of a nerd like me.
18: I Have a Right – Sonata Arctica
Stones Grow Her Name – 2012 – Power Metal
“I have a right to be heard
To be seen, to be loved, to be free
To be everything I need
To be me, to be safe, to believe
In something”
This chorus is such a damn earworm idec. Power Metal is another genre that barely gets a look-in on these playlists due to often being very far removed from real modern political allegory – but every now and then you get a crossover.
If you thought Youth Gone Wild was too cheesy for you, then definitely stay away from this as this is pure extra mature cheddar. But if you want a fun Power Metal anthem to the rights and lives of kids and how they should be protected, nurtured and listened to and not just spoken down to that goes on for maybe a minute too long and repeats its chorus far too many times, then this is the track for you.
19: Children of Decadence – Children of Bodom
Follow The Reaper – 2000 – Melodic Death Metal
“We are children of
Rebellion, we’ll fight, we’ll bleed
Don’t try to come to preach over us”
I fucking adore this band, this is the band that made me think I loved death metal, before I realized most death metal didn’t sound like this and actually I could take or leave it.
But this specific brand of melodic, almost power-metal inspired Death Metal is my jam. Heavy as fuck, soaring melodic shredding guitars, twinkling synths, fucking perfect.
Oh yeah, the theme, it talks about children of rebellion, that’s relevant. Truthfully, you’re not going to get a deep dive on this out of me as I’m not 100% sure of the deeper meaning. But it works as a surface level driving motivating anthem to younger generations standing up for their rights and what they believe in in the face of adversity, and I never get to talk about Children of Bodom, so let me have this.
20: Generation Lost – Motionless In White
Reincarnate – 2014 – Industrial Metal
“Coast to coast I hear the masses calling
Turn up now this is your final (warning)”
Reincarnate is one of those albums that totally recontextualises a band for you. I’d heard their first couple of albums and thought, yeah, this is fine, it’s very 2009 basic metalcore with some gothic aesthetics, riffs that sound cooler in theory than practice, production that isn’t bad enough to be interesting but not good enough to be pleasant. All the things I was into at the time, don’t get me wrong, but when they went full on Industrial/Electronicore for this album, that was the moment I was like “Yep, this is what the band is now, they’ve found their fit, this is incredible.”
The whole album takes the things that were interesting about Marilyn Manson’s music without everything that sucked about Marilyn Manson – and combined it with the metalcore foundation they were known for. The vocals are better, the songwriting is much more involved and engaging, the production is unrecognizably good, the compositions are immaculate. This album isn’t hyped enough, it’s incredible.
Generation Lost is one of my favourite tracks, and while lyrically not very specific, it touches themes on a neglected generation, which… yeah, is that truer of any generation over Gen Z right now?
This song goes toe to toe with Bring Me The Horizon at their peak, and even has a little bit of early Evanescence in song structure, making it a must listen for any aging millennial emos who somehow managed to miss this record.
21: Nowhere Generation – Rise Against
Nowhere Generation – 2021 – Punk
“We are the nowhere generation
We are the kids that no one wants
We are a credible threat to the rules you set
A cause to be alarmed
We are not the names that we’ve been given
We speak a language you don’t know
We are the nowhere generation”
It’s impressive that a band of Gen-Xers in their 40s were able to write and record a song called “Nowhere Generation” and sing about being the kids that no one wants, and it somehow not be the most embarrassing thing in the world. But by golly they pulled it off. (I don’t have the authority to say this after saying ‘by golly’ but shut up.)
A nice little soft Punk anthem to rally all disenfranchised youth behind, a song that I think isn’t for themselves even though it is sung in first person. It’s a timeless chorus to sing along to, from a band who (as far as I know) have always been huge social justice advocates and are continuing to inspire and connect through their music to this day.
22: We Will Not Forget – Fighting Fiction
We Will Not Forget – 2010 – Punk
https://fightingfiction.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-not-forget-2010
“We will not forgive
We will not forget
A system we need to change
A leader we didn’t elect”
Bringing back this old favourite for the penultimate track. We Will Not Forget is a powerful bookend to the Blair/Brown years of politics, directly calling out politicians trying to use the youth to win power with lies and deceit and actual war crimes.
I’m sure they’re not thrilled at the governments we’ve had since then, but whatever the context of its creation, it’s clearly a song for the young to get back at those in power and re-assert that they actually do have some control and they are serious about stripping your power away. It’s also a reminder as we almost inevitably move into a Labour government under Keir Starmer within the next 12 months, that won’t be a solution to all our problems, and the governments will continue to use and abuse the teenage generation of the day in whatever way benefits them.
This band truly encapsulated the disenfranchisement of their generation during the Blair years with this track, and it’s a shame they didn’t last longer as a band, as they were such an important musical voice.
23: Youth – Faintest Idea
The Voice of Treason – 2012 – Ska Punk
https://faintestidea.bandcamp.com/album/the-voice-of-treason
“ONE YOUTH DOWN!
Another arrest, another victim to this prison industry complex
ONE YOUTH DOWN!
A shot to the head, another victim to this war profiteering complex
ONE YOUTH DOWN!
Where does it end? We all become victims to this violence trend
ONE YOUTH DOWN!
Who is to blame? Environment? Community? or Government Shame?”
Closing off the playlist is of course this absolute banger by Faintest Idea. “Youth” is more specifically about how the young and impoverished are being let down by the state and how that in turn leads them to be used as military pawns to die for the country that refused to sustain their life.
It’s a darkly blunt hardcore ska track that so succinctly sums up the problem with the way the government routinely treats the youth and lets them down. It’s no wonder that Millennials are bucking the trend of shifting rightward with age, and it’s looking like Gen Z will be doing the same.
And that’s the list! I’m mildly disappointed in myself about not having a greater showing of more modern tracks and youth voices to fit the theme, but I hope you’ve enjoyed nonetheless, and if you have any more recommendations do let us know in the comments on whichever social media platform you found this on!
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