Alice Cooper is touring Germany this summer.
Photo: dpa/Uli Deck
In his old age, Alice Cooper, who is currently on tour in Europe at the age of 76, says what it is like: Rock’n’Roll and politics don’t mix. “I believe that rock ‘n’ rollers shouldn’t use their fame to tell others who they should vote for,” he recently told the German Press Agency. Rock’n’Roll, an older word for pop music, is often overrated. Many politicians would get something from a good show from which you go home feeling at peace with yourself. At least they would like to be recommended by pop musicians, like a good record.
But it doesn’t work properly, because one is politics and the other is pop, there is no connection other than media exploitation. The left-wing intellectuals who want to do something with so-called protest music haven’t understood this either. But “pop scenes do not compete with the left, but with other pop scenes,” the Marxist Günther Jacob wrote in 1997. A revolution only ever happens in pop and not in real life.
In the 1970s, Alice Cooper, a pastor’s son from Phoenix, Arizona, rose to fame with his shock rock, in which the show was everything and the music was very little. He had live guillotines, fake blood and a boa constrictor, but with “School’s Out” there was also a nice stomping anthem for all the children who weren’t afraid of him as a child terror but wanted to sing along. When he was a child himself, he always went into his room “when my parents started talking about politics,” he says: “I listened to music loudly and didn’t want to hear any of it.”
The only politician who can combine politics and pop is Donald Trump. Cooper called him a “disguised rock star” in the “SZ” in 2019. But for him that is every US president; he generally considers this office to be the “hardest, most horrible job in the world.” He knows Trump from the golf course: “A very special little animal.” Do you want that? Please don’t!
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