“For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield was a song that
heavily resonated with the hippies and war protesters of the 1960s. Originally, the song was written in protest of curfews, but the interpretation quickly changed. Even though the song wasn’t composed to gear
people against the war, it did exactly that. Music was a prime outlet of
expression for people of this time period. Because of the expression through
music, many bands of this era were a looked up to as a respectable source of
information. Buffalo Springfield, in this song, simply wrote and sang what many
people were already feeling at the time. This only worked to increase the
band’s power of ethos over the public. The people’s passion for ending the war
was mirrored in this song that went on to become a sort of “political anthem”
for the US.
-Christina Atchison
I like this analysis, the band's credibility is basically directly proportional to the song's popularity. Do you think the band would have the same ethos if the song wasn't that popular?
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