You just stated in the past few posts that music hasn't been a solid look at the socio-political climate of the country. The popular music for the most part has always been pretty vapid and lacking of politics. Every once in a while a song will crack through like Mosh, 99 red luftballoons. the 60's was the period of time when music and politics most synced up. Since then there's kinda been a big disconnect between the world happenings and the popular music in the US. The 80's were a hard time, you couldn't tell that if you listened to the most popular music. 2007-2011 was a hard time. You couldn't tell that from the popular music at the time
I think you misunderstand what I was saying to a degree.
Historically music has been the indicator of social and political unrest dating back further than my life goes. The correlation in more modern times (last 40 years or so) has aligned itself more with the current political party sitting in the WH or in control of congress.
The entertainment industry is notably filled with people who align themselves with liberal politics.
During the 80's you had punk rock which spoke solidly as a whole against the Reagan policies of the time and quite vocally (Dead Kennedys, Reagan Youth etc.). The number of conservative bands were far fewer (Black Flag, Agnostic Front etc). You also had hip hop which was coming up strong and spoke openly about the same types of views from a black perspective, even soul and funk music did this leading up to it (look at James Brown as one who was very openly speaking on social issues regularly).
You didn't see this nearly as often when Carter was in office, you didn't see this when Clinton was in office because their political views and social views were in line with what the artists agreed with. Regardless of all the faults seen during those presidencies (and there were many) it was nearly unheard of to speak against your alignment even if you know it is the same crap the other party did or does...it is extremely disingenuous in nature to do this.
Reagan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr all took the brunt of the discussions and nobody held back in interviews, songs, movies or any area of entertainment like they do at now.
You want news you can't flip on CNN, MSNBC, Fox or any other single source because they all filter according to their agenda so that even if you pick from multiple sources to try and get a complete picture it is muddied and never the truth. The same goes for entertainers, they present what they believe whether it is genuine or not and they will not change their message or stance to call out their man in office...that is my point.