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I mean, listen to modern UK music for about 10 minutes and you’ll hear this. I like “nothing great about Britain”. “Top Boy” isn’t exactly about people thriving

• sph 3y ago
  A recent discovery of mine are "Sleaford Mods", a genre I like to call austerity punk. When two people in their mid 50s complain about the cost of living, you know the system has completely and utterly failed us. I can only look with pity at the naive mass of people that still believe a better world is just an election away.
  • Toenex 3y ago
    Never thought I would see the Sleaford Mods mentioned in a Hacker News thread. As a 50-something UK male I agree the world has gone a bit weird when the rallying cry for revolution is a well articulated by my peers as by the youth.
    • defrost 3y ago
      They work well with Amy Taylor's laid back easy going Aussie energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5f1Bweak38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5f1Bweak38
    • sph 3y ago
      They are an acquired taste, but I learned to appreciate how modern and punk their music feels. Not aimed at authority, like the 80s punk movement, but angry at how mediocre, mundane and unfulfilling our daily lives have become in the past 30 years. It's about time punk started to turn on the rat race. https://youtu.be/WhOmCYmEkvU?si=sRS9ga0-LbhCvb3g https://youtu.be/WhOmCYmEkvU?si=sRS9ga0-LbhCvb3g
• JeremyNT 3y ago
  It does seem like the frustrations are really bubbling through in art. I've been listening to a band called Yard Act whose lyrics are overtly political and also seem to capture the anger younger people are feeling. As an outsider looking in, one gets the sense that things are devolving and faith in British institutions is declining.