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Danny Elfman?

I mean he wrote songs making fun of the left AND the right (and pedophiles too!) in his 80s band Oingo Boingo.

Then he quit for a long time to just make movie music and, later, classical music; tried to write and direct his own movies but Disney canned them; and recently during the lockdown wrote a new album and decided to do the rock star thing again. Sang some of his old and new songs at Coachella and last month at the Hollywood Bowl (going there was my birthday present!) Old songs and new songs have the same message at heart. Hasn't said anything to my knowing about the vaccine, though he did say that the far left (as well as the far right) wants to take away our rights in a recent interview. He reads stuff written by intellectuals he politically disagrees with as well. New album is sympathetic to people who are frustrated with being locked down, and there's even a song about people being so dumbed down that they can be brainwashed into taking a bath in cyanide which I find an apt metaphor for what's going on although it was written a year before the shots started getting pushed on people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjdKaUvUSd8

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