As Mayfield’s third studio album as a solo artist, Super Fly perfectly encapsulates the post-Civil Rights/early Black Power feel of black America struggling to survive the social and political consequences of the nation’s conservative backlash.
The best political music doesn’t necessarily announce itself as political because it is concerned first and foremost with the people for whom the politics matter the most. But when political music is truly awful-here, think of something like John Lennon’s “Imagine”-it is because the artist has made the same mistake as the politician: they have treated the message as more important than the people it is being delivered to. It tends to be didactic, sure, but that’s an understandable and almost forgivable sin it is difficult to condense any meaningful and convincing political message into the space of a few verses and a chorus. The worst political music sounds like political music.
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