A change is gonna come by Sam Cooke
http://youtu.be/48K5Y0421Ig
Boom! by System of a Down
http://youtu.be/bE2r7r7VVic
These two protest songs produced in two different eras go against the militarism of the government, but in very different ways. Where Cooke takes a more passive approach, saying that a change will come soon, the band System of a Down takes a more aggressive approach, stating lines such as “Every time you drop the bomb, you kill the God your child has born.” The differences of the two songs also indicate the change in the society, where citizens are more actively speaking their voice in the media, criticizing the government. Although freedom of speech existed from the beginning of America’s independence by the Constitution, it seems that the general modern public is utilizing that constitution to a fuller extent nowadays.