redstate.com By Bob Hoge
Sure, Taylor Swift is dominating the song charts since her new album dropped recently, but she probably never guessed she’d get some competition from an unlikely source: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The latest propaganda tune released by the communist Republic praising Kim as a god-like leader has inexplicably gone viral on TikTok.
The boisterous song sounds a lot like K-pop, and unsuspecting listeners are loving it, many of them presumably unaware that the lyrics pour acclaim on the totalitarian state and its murderous leader. It is somewhat catchy, though, I must admit, if you like that sort of thing:
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While the song might like a weird mix of Russian war songs and bubblegum pop, there’s actually a sophisticated effort behind the regime’s efforts to produce such anthems:
Friendly Father is just the latest in a line of propaganda pop songs churned out by the Communist state in the past 50 years.
It’s peppy, bright-tempoed and dangerously catchy – not that much different from Western pop hits.
But there is a certain Soviet-era tinge to it; Gen Z users describe it as “Abba-coded”, a reference to the Swedish superband.
“In this case, the song has Abba written all over it, “ says Peter Moody, a North Korea analyst at Korea University.
But there’s a purpose behind the music, and that purpose is to keep the repressed citizens in line and remain stalwart in their devotion to Kim, whom former President Donald Trump once called “little rocket man” and “a sick puppy.” …
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