Being a protestant, maybe I live a general lifestyle of protest. Maybe I’m so protestant I don’t see the protest. Heh. I don’t know about that. Are “Come, Thou Fount” or “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” protest songs? Maybe they are.

The incredibly well-versed Arsenio Orteza writes music reviews for World News Group. In “Not so pop(ular) music,” he describes two new protest albums, Van Morrison’s Latest Record Project Volume 1 and Zuby’s Word of Zuby.

Is Van Morrison too big to fail or does he publisher think he’s now in the old man ranting on the porch category? Orteza writes, “The many songs with ‘the media’ in their crosshairs cohere into one big pushback against the contemporary groupthink that Morrison says plagues his industry after lockdowns halted live performances.”

Zuby is young and independent. His current album was crowd sourced. He represents a generation of Christian rappers who see the world from well-grounded, biblical lens and say things that are truly counter-cultural. Listen to the song above to hear how Big Tech doesn’t understand him so much that he can’t have a normal conversation.