“Political.”
Just another needless category. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. The cat-skinning, in this case, is artistic expression. Some artists may choose to express themselves in ways that are more routinely an explicit commentary on social matters and may do it with more frequency than others.
If the music is good, it’s good.
Yes, “Beer for My Horses” by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson (why, Willie, why?!?!) has all the subtlety, nuance and complexity of a club to the head, but the song is not bad because the ideas expressed are bad (but, in all reality, probably) the song is bad because the song is really, really bad.
Just yesterday, I threw on “Okie from Muskogee.” I forgot how stupid and bad the ideas expressed in that song were. I still liked it. Why? Well, I guess I just think it’s a good song.