11. Robert Patton - Big in Japan

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🎶 Musician Talks Politics and Doesn’t Stay in His Lane

There’s an old cliché in the music industry: “Stick to your lane. Don’t mix art with politics. Just entertain.”
But what happens when the lane itself is blocked — by corruption, censorship, and the theft of ideas too big to ignore?

The Storm Will Remember Us is not just an album. It is a testimony, a document of resistance. Each track is both a song and a witness statement — from the attempt to bury new physics equations, to the absurdity of sitting on unmeasurable intellectual wealth while being denied a basic loan, to the lived experience of whistleblowing in a system that punishes truth-tellers.

I’ve been told more than once that musicians should “stay out of politics.” That art should be harmless, apolitical, decorative. But the truth is simple: music has always been political. From Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit” to Bob Dylan plugging in his guitar, to Gil Scott-Heron reminding us that the revolution will not be televised — songs have always been frontline weapons in the battle over reality.

This album joins that tradition. It weaves protest, blues, dada collage, folk testimony, and storm-driven myth into a single narrative: one person’s fight against censorship, corporate theft, and the absurdity of an economic system incapable of recognizing emergent wealth.

You’ll hear anthems, ballads, lullabies, and storm songs. You’ll hear anger and exhaustion, satire and sincerity, fury and fragility. It is not meant to be polite. It is not meant to stay in one lane.

Because when institutions silence science, when corporations erase whistleblowers, when banks measure worth in decimals while ignoring the fire of discovery, there is no lane left. There is only the open road — and the storm that remembers.

So here it is. My songs, my testimony, my politics, my math, my truth.
Play it loud. Share it freely. And if someone tells you to stay in your lane — ask them whose lane it is, and who’s afraid of what happens when the music changes direction.

— Matthew Chenoweth Wright
The Storm Will Remember Us

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