While Pink and Katy Perry play lip service to politics, the gay Muslim musician represents pop’s real rebels
From Katy Perry’s Chained to the Rhythm – about, like, how we’re all sheep, yeah? – to Pink’s What About Us?, ie the modern-day Another Day in Paradise, pop’s approach to politics in 2017 has been frustratingly vague. Signed to major labels, there’s often too much at risk for artists to pay little more than lip service to issues that may upset the apple cart. Instead, lyrics are broad enough to read like the slogans held aloft in Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi advert. But underneath pop’s top layer, below the major label machinations, there are pop rebels who have no choice but to speak out.
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