That's Just Insipid!

Rock the Podium

I'm interested in what you think of this:

The rock song is about as bad a vehicle for political comment as you can get. The idea that it might be possible to say anything worthwhile about class struggle or the situation in the Middle East in three verses and a chorus, whilst getting it all to rhyme and fitting it to a catchy tune, is fundamentally daft. To compound the problem, most rock stars are pretty inept commentators on politics; but it doesn't stop them trying.

The topic is Neil Young's "Alabama" -- this is taken from Sam Inglis's take on Harvest as his entry in the outstanding 33 1/3 series -- but I'm more interested in his general naysaying re: the intersection of rock and politics. Do you agree?