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| From | "Jason Damas" <jason.damas@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Music & Politics |
| Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:22:41 -0500 |
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<< Joe Jackson really isn't either...it's amazing how
if someone actually somehow suggests that love
is more important than sex people label them prudes
or conservatives... >>
Hardly. "The Obvious Song" is pretty blatantly criticizing "limousine
liberal" rock musicians like Don Henley and Bono. Plus, Jackson's written a
great many songs over the years (much of "Big World") where he's expressed
disillusionment with both the political right and left; if anything he seems
to fall towards Libertarianism, which--last time I checked--was considered
"conservative" before the neo-cons took over the term.
If anything, Jackson's admittedly opaque feelings about his own sexuality
(which he discusses many times in his autobiography, and which pops up in
his songwriting more frequently on the last few studio discs), combined with
his tendency to keep the social company of drag queens, could almost label
him as liberal. --J
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