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Adding Meaning to Music
Bands are coming out with songs of a conservative bent — music to your ears.
M BY PAUL BOND
usic is a personal journey for most, and it’s refreshing to come across songs that don’t
follow the beat of mainstream media. To that end, some new full-throated conservative rockers have popped up who are unafraid to speak their minds through their songs. One website, BigDawgMusicMafia.
com, has dozens of conservative art- ists and their songs and even lets visi- tors download many of them for free. Here are five rockers who are cut-
ting songs with crystal-clear conserva- tive messages in them:
TOOTS SWEET
TootsSweet.com
Toots Sweet started
singing and rapping about current events from an obviously conservative perspec- tive shortly after Pres- ident Barack Obama was sworn into office. His lyrics are so
timely and informed that your average consumer of main- stream media might not understand them. References to ACORN, “overseas apologies,” and “confusing education with indoctri- nation” are replete throughout. His lyrics also slam far-left academics like Saul Alinsky and Frances Fox Piven,
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as well as Al Gore for his global- warming hypocrisy and Nancy Pelosi for voting in favor of bills she hasn’t read. He quotes the U.S. Constitution and Decla- ration of Independence and he includes audio of Obama speeches in his music. “Pop culture is a powerful
tool that most conservatives do not understand nor do they embrace fully,” Sweet tells Newsmax. His mission is to change that, and he’s doing so by playing his songs at places where conservatives gather, including tea party events and CPAC — there was even an impromp- tu performance on Glenn Beck’s former Fox News TV show. Sweet has cut 30
RIGHT WAY Toots Sweet, left, and Chip Murray perform in New York.
songs with titles like “Pirate in the White House,” “We the Peo- ple,” “Washington D’Sleazy,” and “Argu- ing With Idiots.” He sells them for 99 cents each at his web- site, and several are on his first CD, called
Takin’ Back America. His upcoming CD, which includes a tribute song to Andrew Breitbart, is called Liberty Manifesto. “It’s important to get the word across accurately and articulate- ly,” says Sweet, whose music seems to
LISA MEI NORTON
fuse Elvis Costello with a dash of hip- hop. “What I’m trying to do is docu- ment history while at the same time taking the listener on a lyrical jour- ney through current events, painting a crystal clear picture so not to confuse the message.”
CHIP MURRAY
ChipMurray.com
Murray, a singer-songwriter who
sounds like a right-wing Bob Dylan (complete with harmonica and poetic lyrics), has been playing guitar for four decades, but his songwriting took a right turn after “listening to Obama’s transformational rhetoric,” then attending his first tea party rally. His music was featured on the site
Breitbart.com and he performed at an event at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey. “I don’t know any other way to write other than to
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