In the 90’s a lot of popular song were pretty political, remember Killing in the name of and even the skate pop-punk has pretty popular political song’s (Offspring, Blink Green-day). Actually political movies were also quite big in the 90’s/00’s (French Masterpiece La haine, or the whole work of Michael Moore).
I would expect to see that the people who were teens/young adult at the time would tackle all these issues 20-30 years latter when they’ll finally take the power and the reality is that everything got worse, than even talking about-it make you sound like a radical, and that the gen-X/Millennials totally failed to change something.
What happened ? and how did we fail ?
There’s a huge gap between those that understood RATM’s message and those who owned their albums. Many people liked their music but would never oppose capitalism especially when it worked for them.
As evidenced by bootlicking MAGAites dancing to killing in the name of during the BackTheBlue shitshow
Also our generation IMO has a lot more sociopaths and fewer collectivist minded folk.