![]() ![]() In the 68 years of the Official Singles Chart, 102 songs with 'Rain' in their title have charted inside the Top 40. This week sees UK rappers Aitch, AJ Tracey and Tay Keith score a Top 5 debut with their collaboration Rain, while Niall Horan has gone all-out on his weather-themed second album, called Heartbreak Weather. Given its mood-reflecting qualities (pathetic fallacy is the technical term), it's also a popular subject in songs. As well as reportedly checking the forecast eight times a week on average, it's also a fail-safe social prop for making small talk. "I don't quite know what to make of it, that these two people who had these anti-monarchy songs, both became, really unusually for pop music, right-wingers.Obsession with the weather is a uniquely British phenomenon. Morrissey has shown allegiance with the far-right political party For Britain. Lydon has been a vocal supporter of former U.S. The cover of his recent solo album, Low in High School, shows a boy holding up a sign that says "Axe The Monarchy." But pop music scholar McEwan noted both Morrissey and John Lydon, the Sex Pistols' singer (known back then as Johnny Rotten) identify with far-right-wing politics these days. Meanwhile, former Smiths frontman, Morrissey, still apparently espouses anti-royalist sentiments. Now that Elizabeth has died, they're considering updating the lyrics to talk about King Charles. ![]() Vylan said the band plans to perform the song on their upcoming U.S. "But our families, our community, our ancestors suffered at the hands of this monarchy." "She never came to my house personally and took food out of my fridge," the rapper and songwriter said. Katja Ogrin/Katja Ogrin/EMPICS Entertainment/PA Images/Reuters Connectīob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan (the other band member, who plays the drums, goes by the name Bob Vylan) said the late monarch still owes a debt to Britain's Black and brown families. ![]() "By using the title, 'God Save the Queen,' obviously you're invoking the national anthem and making it about more than just her."īobby Vylan of Bob Vylan performs on day 3 of the Leeds Festival on August 29, 2021. "It really is an indictment of the system," said Paul McEwan, a professor of media and communications at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches a class on pop music history. The song, which the punk band released in tandem with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, equates the monarchy with a right-wing dictatorship. The sentiments changed after The Sex Pistols released " God Save the Queen" in 1977. The Beatles' " Penny Lane" is a case in point, with the whimsical lyric, "Penny Lane, there is a fireman with an hourglass/And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen." Until the 1970s, the Queen of England pretty much only made innocuous cameo appearances in British pop songs. Elton John, for instance, paid tribute to the queen at a concert earlier this week.īut the relationship between British pop and the late monarch has long been much more fraught. The death of Queen Elizabeth II has elicited empathy from some British pop artists. Mirrorpix/John Mead/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Johnny Rotten, drummer Paul Cook, bass guitarist John Simon Ritchie a.k.a. From left: Lead singer and songwriter John Joseph Lydon a.k.a. Members of the English punk band the Sex Pistols. ![]()
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