“No Lives Matter” by Tom MacDonald
The name of this track is of course a revision of “Black Lives Matter”, a phrase which itself is referenced numerous times in the song. Black Lives Matter is an ideology but more importantly a social movement, one which really came to the American forefront during 2020. And basically, Tom McDonald is criticizing this initiative for being racist. In other words, when White people sympathize with Blacks who have taken up this cause, they have a tendency to be rejected.
However, the rapper doesn’t attribute this reality to racism per se as much as he does a mob mentality which has swept over the land. That is to say that concerning the issues of today, if individuals don’t react to them in a prescribed way, they are instantly ostracized. And along that same vein, people being stereotypically categorized has become the norm.
To illustrate this point, McDonald also mentions how people are considered “trash” if they don’t “hate the President”. And the “President” in question is apparently President Trump.
And ultimately, McDonald recognizes this low tolerance level as being the result of the masses being controlled by “the elites”. Indeed these same powerful individuals don’t really care for the people. And this is why for instance they saturate popular music with destructive messages. And ultimately, that is the idea that Tom is alluding to with the title of this song. While laymen quarrel over petty issues, at the end of the day, their leaders could care less about their lives.
Release Date of “No Lives Matter”
This is a song which Tom McDonald self-released on 6 November 2020. A few days after this track came out, McDonald celebrated, via his Facebook account, it reaching number one on iTunes.
Did McDonald write this song?
In addition to serving as its lyricist, McDonald also wrote and produced “No Lives Matter”.
It’s Tom MacDonald, not the burger franchise…
“No Lives Matter” is a powerful and brilliantly written song, leveling a scathing indictment on how mainstream music and the media warp perceptions and stereotypes to pit American against American. The toxicity of American politics has broken up lifelong friendships and once loving families. “No Lives Matter” ferrets out the nonsense and asks Americans to wake up!
You’re a f—ing imbecile if you think this stupid song is “brilliant” lmao.
Every single thing he said in this song has been voming true p
Tom MacDonald is an amazing artist. Why do you call him racist?
Nobody can be so stupid to think Tom who grew up the only white kid in his area, who loved each and every one of his black neighbours is racist.
Any accusations of racism made against Tom have derived from snowflakes who understand nothing about life, who are full of paranoia, hate and personal mental disorders. They see a title of a song get triggered and don’t bother to even try finding out what the actual content is. Similar to people who read newspaper headlines without the content. 🙂
That is offensive to people with mental disorders. People with mental disorders hate all people equally, don’t make us look like we are picky towards who we hate.
That is just stupid to think that the commenter is referring to you offensively
look.. tom macdonald is an amazing artist. his songs are perfect for our school project, its about songs that show political conflict. i dont know what problems everyone has with his music, if you dont like it then move on and try and bash someone else and stop wasting your time arguing back. it has nothing to deal with you his music is directed to the world not just one person, thank you:)