Roger Taylor of Queen joins other singers and song writers

[tavernier]

with his newest take on certain politicians. The song is called Chumps. It’s brilliant. I can’t get it to link but it’s on YouTube if you’re interested.

[highplainsdem]

1. Video and article:

Classic Rock magazine, Feb. 2:

https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/roger-taylor-chumps

The mournful Chumps finds Taylor singing despairingly about "a man of no morality, of no more quality" over gentle washes of synthesiser, and demonstrating some excellent rhyming skills, partnering "treachery" with "lechery" and "pomposity" and "atrocities."

Taylor, who been happily neglecting to keep politics out of his music for several decades, has a history with this sort of thing.

In 2019, he released the state-of-the-nation address Gangsters Are Running This World, while his 1994 album Happiness included both Dear Mr. Murdoch – an attack on media mogul Rupert Murdoch – and the single Nazis 1994, a song railing against the rising tide of neo-Nazism. Dear Mr. Murdoch was subsequently updated in 2011 following the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Taylor also covered John Lennon's protest song Working Class Hero on his 1998 album Electric Fire.

Full lyrics in the article.

[tavernier]

3. Thank you for showing the link, my friend

I happen to have eight fingers and 14 thumbs.

[peggysue2]

2. Those lyrics?

Definitely Trump. I really like the number of protest songs being released.

The Art of Resistance!