The Politics of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has always stood up for what he perceives as right. While some may disagree with his stances on a political level, nobody can accuse him of being a hypocrite or selling his soul to corporate vultures, which is all too rare. The state of the modern music industry is a source of contempt for Waters, who views it as a microcosm of the wider world. “Music no longer has any value. It is only around in our lives because it’s used to sell soap powder and Volkswagens. It’s the advertisers who are actually driving the ship,” he told NPR in 2017. “Music is just a means to the end for them, so that they don’t have the passion for Billie Holiday or Sam Cooke or any of the other people that I might choose and who I really care about listening to. “Those people under these new rules would never get paid because the idea of all of this: It’s all there for everybody to stream all the time. It’s based upon the notion that it is valueless and that the people who make the music should not get pai