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Why the Coalition’s tone-deaf diss track was bound to hit all the wrong notes
The Conversation, Vol.16 April 2025
2025
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
Hip-hop is a cultural powerhouse that has infiltrated every facet of popular culture, across a global market. That said, one place you usually don’t see it is on the election campaign trail.
That’s right, I’m talking about the track “Leaving Labor” – the Liberal-National Coalition’s latest attempt to create beef with the Australian Labor Party, via a hip-hop track from an unnamed artist.
You only need to go as far as the (very entertaining) comments section on the Coalition’s SoundCloud to see what people think of the campaign’s new track, the lyrics of which include such zingers as “I just wanna buy some eggs and cheese, a hundred bucks you kidding me?” and “real prices are at the pinnacle”.
For many, it hasn’t struck the right chord. But that will be no surprise to anyone who knows what hip-hop is really about.
Details
- Title
- Why the Coalition’s tone-deaf diss track was bound to hit all the wrong notes
- Authors
- Andy Ward - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.16 April 2025
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.7ut3jraqr
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991121552702621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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