It is increasingly indicative of the state of the world in recent years that more and more songs are being written that have a political message or a social observation at their heart. As someone who grew up in the shadow of punk and the dark, uncaring, money-fuelled days of Thatcher-Reagan, I remember feeling as if music had a voice, it rallied against ideologies and it shouted from the rooftops. In the last couple of decades, it has felt not so much that music doesn’t have anything to say but that the artists driving popular music have taken a vow of silence, which has left us in a landscape littered with “boy meets girl” dross and happy-clappy vacuousness.
I can only imagine that the music world has reached some tipping point, as “Medusa,” the new single from SkyDxddy, is the second song tackling issues of women’s health rights and body autonomy that I have been sent this week.
More specifically, via a video that tells of “Medusa” of Greek mythology being punished for her violation at the hands of the god Poseidon, it reminds us that often it is the victim that is held to blame for the actions of the perpetrator of an assault, particularly if that victim is female.
It is a tale told over dark and poised pop meets gothic rock, the ebbing and flowing between understated passages and sonic crescendos, and the lush dynamics and drama of the instrumentation.
Music has always been part of the political and social conversation, since the most ancient of times. Many seem to have forgotten that, but, thankfully, not SkyDxddy.
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