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A Job Song is the kind of song workers sing to keep themselves motivated while they work. The subversion of this is the Working Class Anthem, a song that motivates the worker into rebelling against the job in favor of putting it in its place. Much like the Earth Song, the Working Class Anthem is the type of song with a political agenda. In this case, it criticizes the economic conditions of the time, usually written and sung for and by the working class at the expense of the rich and powerful. Such topics include: low-wages, terrible working conditions, Bad Bosses that either abuse or are apathetic to the very laborers that give them their fortune, company scrip, environmental degradation caused by big industry, wage slavery, debt, the Military-Industrial Complex, private prisons, no bathroom breaks, and a whole host of other problems caused by an exploitative system. While straight examples are sung by Working-Class Heroes, Villain Songs sung to glorify these societal ills also qualify. Songs that glorify things like income inequality and 20-hour workdays are usually sung by Sleazy Politicians and Upper-Class Twits who you Love to Hate, thus you associate these terrible things with a Very Punchable face. Whether or not the moral of the song is "Capitalism Is Bad" or "Capitalism is deeply-flawed and needs a few amendments" depends on the example. Sub-Trope of Protest Song. A pretty familiar topic in Country Music and heartland music (and maybe, depending on the artist, some punk, folk, and blues music, too). |
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RENT: "What You Own" depicts Mark struggling to keep his head down in his soulless tabloid job, until he finally realizes he needs to quit to work on his own film, honoring his friends who are struggling with AIDS. | |
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Steven Universe: In "Sadie Killer", Steven and the Cool Kids form a band, but struggle to find their sound. Sadie joins them for a horror movie night after an exhausting shift at the Big Donut; motivated by her frustration, she and the band create a song called "The Working Dead" in which Sadie compares her working-class life to being a zombie. At the end of the episode, she joins the band and quits her awful job. | |
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Newsies: In contrast to the Job Song "Carrying the Banner" that starts the film, "Seize the Day" and "The World Will Know" depict the newsboys resolving to strike against Pulitzer and Hearst for fairer treatment. | |
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Wasteland 3 DLC The Battle Of Steeltown features a version of Joe Hill's "There Is Power In A Union" as part of its soundtrack - consistent with the DLC's industrial setting of Steeltown. | |
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The Rolling Stones' "Salt Of The Earth" is about how working-class people and their struggles are overlooked in society. | |
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"The Fine Print" by The Stupendium is a Filk Song dedicated to the video game The Outer Worlds, a song about how much it sucks to live under the hyper-capitalist society the game takes place in. | |
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"There Is Power In A Union" is the name of two separate songs, one written by songwriter and Industrial Workers Of The World member Joe Hill in 1913, and the other by Billy Bragg in 1986. | |
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Les Misérables is full of them: "Work Song" depicts the harsh conditions of the prisoners doing manual labor, many of whom have received punishments that outweigh their crimes. "At the End of the Day" shows the poor of France constantly struggling to keep bread on the table with their meager jobs, with whisperings of uprising. "Do You Hear the People Sing?" invokes the trope. While it is sung by the relatively well-off college students, they are attempting to incite an uprising in the lower classes who are most affected by the unfair laws. It doesn't work. The song has since been used in a number of real-life protests. |
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"Skid Row (Downtown)" from Little Shop of Horrors highlights this, particularly in the Urchins' verses. | |
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Parodied on Saturday Night Live with "Corporate Nightmare Song", where four Emo employees in an office job start out complaining about the "working stiff" lifestyle until one by one they're all won over by it. | |
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Epica's "Resign to Surrender - A New Age Dawns - Pt. IV" poetically calls out income and wealth inequality with stanzas like "Now that all hands are tied / We're panic stricken / Wealth out of sight / Demolition, the damaged pride / The price of ambition", and closes on the lines "Chasing our addictions, we're stunting our growth / Once we get rid of this ballast we'll be able to / Restore the balance and distribute our wealth". | |
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In the Heights: Sonny's verse in "96,000" involves him dreaming of using the lottery money to protest the status quo in the barrio. | |
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"How Bad Can I Be?" from The Lorax (2012) is a song sung by the Once-ler once his Thneed business takes off and manages to make a profit. While the song on its surface espouses the virtues of a profit-centric worldview, it's actually a Villain Song that shows the Once-ler slowly being corrupted by his success (and the bad influence of his family). We see in the song that not only is his business causing massive devastation to the environment, but he starts buying into a Social Darwinist mindset to justify it and starts "donating" to Fake Charities for good PR. | |
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Billy Elliot: Because Billy's father and brother are involved in the 1984-1985 U.K. Coal Miners Strike, many of the songs focus around this, including "The Stars Look Down", "Solidarity", and "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher". | |
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Sweet Charity: "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" starts out with Charity and her friends resolving to find a way out of their dead-end taxi dancer jobs, but subverts the trope when their dream jobs end up being just menial service jobs. | |
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