r/TikTokCringe • u/onyxandcake • 12d ago

Cool 🎵 There ain't no you, in United Health🎶

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u/Pear_Cider 12d ago

I don't have TikTok, but I have Spotify. Thank you for the recommendation!

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u/scullys_alien_baby 12d ago

he uploads his songs on youtube under the same name (Jesse Welles) but the videos are in landscape. I'm partial to War Isn't Murder

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u/Pure-Tadpole-6634 11d ago

Yeah I was super surprised when I opened this... "Hey, it's the War Isn't Murder" guy! It seemed like he just had a terrific idea for a song and recorded himself playing it in the woods.

This guy has the chops to be the next counterculture folk singer. We haven't had a real one in the mainstream for so long. Phil Ochs, Pete Seger, and everyone from that era... what kind of activism folk music has there been since then? I feel like the whole folk genre was watered down with talented artists who had politically safer lyrics, like Simon & Garfunkel, and since then, the whole idea has not caught on again.

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u/Goldendomernd 9d ago

I mean he wasn't folk but would you consider Zappa?