On Roger Waters' first album in 25 years, he asks: 'Do we really want to live in a state of perpetual war?'
His new album, Is this the Life we Really Want?, takes on capitalism and consumerism.
It's been 25 years since Roger Waters, one of the co-founding members of Pink Floyd, released an album. Waters is changing that this week when he releases Is This the Life we Really Want?
Waters' last record, Amused to Death, was released in 1992 and critiqued modern entertainment culture and cable news in the era of the First Gulf War. His new album takes a similarly sharp look at current themes of capitalism and consumerism in the United States's Trump era.
In an interview with q host Tom Power, Waters discusses how music and art have always been a manifestation of the responsibility we have to each other as human beings.
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