Speedy Ortiz – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

50 Best Protest Songs of 2023

January 5, 2024

Sunny War, from the artist’s Bandcamp Back when I started the website in 2017 I included a list of the 50 Best Protest Songs (back when I was still presenting lists in numerical order. Since that time I opted not to make a list since I was creating a Spotify protest song playlist featuring music that appeared on the site. […]

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Daily Dose of Protest: You Hate The Title – Speedy Ortiz

September 13, 2018

“You Hate The Title” is off of Speedy Ortiz’s 2018 album Twerp Verse. The album’s Bandcamp page describes the tune as “a slinky traipse through the banality of this current moment in patriarchy – in which survivors are given the mic, but nitpicked over the timbre of their testimonies.” This is highlighted with the lyric “You hate the title, but […]

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