What Is Liberal Music Twitter Saying About The Most Surprising Election Result In Decades?

May 8, 2015, 5:51am

First The Who headlining Glastonbury, now the Tories headlining the country. If ever you needed proof the tastes of the British public are hard to understand, this was the week you got it. Over at Vice.com they’re still covering the fallout, including the resignation of three party leaders in the next couple of hours in what is essentially The House of Commons’ answer to ‘The Red Wedding’.

But how is folksy left-leaning 6Music Twitter dealing with the news of five more years of Tory rule? We’ve spent the last couple of weeks discussing the lack of party-political engagement from musicians and the general apathetic attitude when it comes to politics and music intersecting, although last night we saw a tiny bit of it – mostly in the form of “fuck it all, I’m moving to Alicante” style defeatism.

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We don’t want work you fucking piglet bastard. We want freedom. You fucking cunt.
— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) May 8, 2015

You bastard you fucking bastard
— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) May 8, 2015

A fuckin majority.
— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) May 8, 2015

the City must be very pleased … (spits)
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) May 8, 2015

The system is flawed & a teenager could work out that these guys in suits having petty arguments tit for tat aren’t solving shit @mikeynolo
— Jme (@JmeBBK) May 8, 2015

Just spending & cutting in different places, @mikeynolo so people vote for who they agree with most, who’ll benefit them. Ultimately selfish
— Jme (@JmeBBK) May 8, 2015

It’s like I want to make the chips cheaper but the milkshake more expensive and charge 20p for the toilet usage. @mikeynolo
— Jme (@JmeBBK) May 8, 2015

Skepta believes in free milkshakes for all, @mikeynolo but £5 chips, and toilet usage free for under 10’s and a eat in tax
— Jme (@JmeBBK) May 8, 2015

I’ll miss the NHS
— La Roux (@larouxofficial) May 8, 2015

The Tories are like one of those shit bands that nobody actually admits to liking, but they always seem to be in the charts : /
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) May 8, 2015

— Drenge (@drenge) May 8, 2015

So sad that people care more about getting rich and buying a house than about the people who will suffer under the cruelty of Tory cuts
— kate tempest (@katetempest) May 8, 2015

The amount of lowest common denominator music people shovel down their gullets these days, the voting patterns aren’t surprising.
— DJ Logan Sama (@djlogansama) May 8, 2015

The politics of fear is the politics of control and we’ve given the reigns to the bogey men.
— Charlotte Church (@charlottechurch) May 8, 2015

We live under a poisonous mythology – that life is about the individual. We have to change that mythology before anything else
— kate tempest (@katetempest) May 8, 2015

Where I was born & where I live remain Tory. Both have: food banks underfunded NHS huge inequality & are clearly full of the heartless.
— Rou Reynolds (@RouReynolds) May 8, 2015

Was composing an emotionally charged/bitter tweet and then realised I was gonna need five years’ worth. Democracy = every day.
— Fred Macpherson (@fredmacpherson) May 8, 2015

Artists: every time you go “I don’t talk about politics” or dodge a q in an interview you’re complicit in what’s happened this morning in UK
— Forest Swords (@ForestSwords) May 8, 2015

Sorry UK.

So it seems everyone is in agreement, then. We all want a liberal left-wing government that advocates anti-austerity, a higher calibre of chart music, and free milkshakes. Right? Right.

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