Does Not Illustrate: Protest Song

The current image is of a Green Day album cover, which doesn't make any sense to someone who isn't familiar with Green Day already.

Edited by Orbiting on Jan 23rd 2022 at 12:20:09 PM

Yeah, this one's not terribly clear.

Like I said in the Explanations thread, I think visually this is closer to My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting than this trope, though I think the current in that page is better.

I don't know much about Green Day other than that they are a rock band, but it's quite clear to me that this album is supposed to have a political message.

I agree with that. It's not illustrative enough of the "Protest Song" part.

Pull

Part of the problem might be that "American Idiot" is in such tiny font. Otherwise, while it's definitely political, there's no explanation of what those politics are or what they're protesting. Parents dropping a kid into a bear trap (or carrying them over a bear trap?) could be symbolic of any political ideology across the board.

The older ones may still remember this

Edited by eroock on Jan 23rd 2022 at 1:24:50 AM

Not sure how easy it is to illustrate the "song" part, but Woody Guthrie's an option:

The smaller sticker version is already on Folk Music, but could be moved:

Edited by GiantCicada on Jan 26th 2022 at 11:20:14 AM

I prefer this. The Woody Guthrie images don't illustrate a specific song as much as they show a political musician.

I like the second Michael Jackson picture, as it looks like a mass uprising; though I'm not sure whether it's clear that he's singing, not shouting.

9 or 10.1.

I like 9.

I suppose 8.2 shows the 'protest' part best, but it's hard to tell it's a song. Meanwhile 9 looks pretty much like Five Faces And A Caption.

I'll point out Gangsta Rap is an entire genre (that those five faces helped codify, incidentally), so on a page titled Protest Song it's not a huge leap of logic to understand that this is in fact a song of some sort, the same way the current is understandable as an album cover. Even if you don't recognize them or are unfamiliar with the genre, it also helps one of them has "MC" in their stage name, helping clarify they're musicians.

And my post was pointing out the cues that I believe take it out of J 5 AAC. If you know what Gangsta Rap is, it's not that big of a leap of logic to think this is a song.

Edited by Synchronicity on Jan 28th 2022 at 4:30:45 AM

Well I do know who NWA are, but my point is that to a reader who doesn't know who NWA are, the image is just a bunch of random faces with a protesty text underneath - hence, JAFAAC.

Edited by Spark9 on Jan 28th 2022 at 2:04:44 AM

Votes bump, two in the green.

This should have been votes bumped yesterday, doing that now.