this flower power generation He raised his voice in favor of nature, as reflected in this furious classic by Canadian bards. It arose from a visit to Hawaii when he woke up in the hotel in the morning and drew the curtains, delighting in the beautiful green hills, only looking down and horrified to see an endless parking space. “They took all the trees / put them in a tree museum / and charged people a dollar and a half to see them,” he says sarcastically after scrolling a reflection in the background: “You don’t know what you have until you’ve already lost it.”
‘Pollution’, Johnny Hallyday (1970)
The oldest rocker in Hexágono devoted an album called ‘Vie’ to positioning himself on topics such as pacifism and environmentalism, an example of which was this very obvious theme for the time. rabbits and fish are dying from pollution. “Factories don’t quit smoking” because “the colors are no longer vibrant / the sun itself is off / and the men are completely suffocated”.
‘Mercy, have mercy on me (ecology)’, Marvin Gaye (1971)
On the groundbreaking album ‘What’s Going On’ (1971), the ace of Tamla Motown dived from romantic themes to social and political issues, wrapped in silky, dreamy, soulful instrumentation. To nature this song stands out, asks in it “Where did the blue sky go?” and says “poison is the blowing wind”. Gaye integrates non-poetic words such as “oil”, “mercury” and “radiation” into her language. And he concludes with longing: “Things are not the same anymore”. This was just the beginning.
‘Stop’ by Joan Manuel Serrat (1973)
One of the constant songs on Serrat’s current farewell tour (also in non-Catalan speaking areas in Spain and America) is the one the country boy laments for. “ja no es un riu” river and “ja no hi ha arbres” in the forest, and draws conclusions about what he understands is a breakdown of natural cycles: “If not hi ha pins / not fan pinions / neither cucs nor ocells”. The singer-songwriter had already reflected environmental awareness in ‘Mediterraneo’ (1971) and would return to this in other songs such as ‘Plany al mar’ (1984).
‘Blackened’, Metallica (1988)
Is heavy metal an excuse for violence and destruction? Well, not necessarily: he often sings to humanity’s evils not to celebrate them but to banish them, as in this song that Metallica warns. “death of mother earth” and the “end” and “cancellation” of the human race. The planet is full of these “bubbles”, the product of wars and environmental abuse. The ‘heavy’ spirit loaded with good intentions.
‘The world song’, Michael Jackson (1995)
The King of Pop accuses man of paying attention to fighting rather than looking at where he lives. Ballad in ‘crescendo’ with flaming gospel choirs and an excerpt from Abraham asking heartfelt questions (“what about the sunrise? / what about the rain?”) and speaks of weeping whales and raging seas. The video shows footage of devastated landscapes, boiled animals and Balkan war scenes.
‘Wake Up America’, Miley Cyrus (2008)
The giddy ex-Disney girl gets serious in this rock guitar song where she wonders what global warming is and concludes it’s time to act, albeit keeping the action confined to her country: “Wake up America / We’re all together. in this / This is our house, let’s take care of it”. So the subject scrolls in a second message line. Uniting American citizens beyond their backgrounds and ideologies.
‘Who will stand up?’, Neil Young (2014)
As a former professional hippie, the Canadian bard devoted numerous songs to environmental issues. Global Climate March In 2015, it was in many cities of the world. wondering there “Who will stand up to save the world?” and “who will face the big machine” with references to fossil fuels, ‘cracking’ and the construction of gas pipelines.
‘Apocalypse’, The Established (2017)
The raging song of Calle 13’s singer-rapper provides a flurry of catastrophic hypotheses: “When the weather loses control/and the sun burns his skin/When the sand is left to itself/and the ocean drowns in its own waves…”, the Puerto Rican reader who even thinks the law of gravity is suspended due to human action . includes a song sung in Chinese by artist Yun Huangreinforcing the message We are facing a global problem.
‘Despite repeated warnings’ by Paul McCartney (2018)
Climate change denial and Donald Trump’s announcement that he will pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement motivated ‘exbeatle’ to write about it based on the general suspicion: As long as the melting icebergs are far from being one, the sense of danger is remote.. That’s why he draws on nautical metaphors when talking about a captain who ignores repeated warnings, steers the ship in the wrong direction, and “will abandon us when temperatures rise”.
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