Question: Did Politics influence What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World by The Decemberists?

Context articles: The Decemberists
A Beautiful World
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
Beautiful World (Utada Hikaru song)
Florasongs
Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour
Vehicle of Spirit
The Anthem of the Heart
Beautiful World (Arashi album)
Kino's Journey

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.
 The band consists of Colin Meloy (lead vocals, guitar, principal songwriter), Chris Funk (guitar, multi-instrumentalist), Jenny Conlee (piano, keyboards), Nate Query (bass), and John Moen (drums).
A Beautiful World is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Robin Thicke.
 Originally released on October 15, 2002, the album went under the name "Cherry Blue Skies" but was later renamed to the latter.
 On April 15, 2003; the album was reissued and features the extra tracks "A Beautiful World" and "She's Gangsta".
 The woman featured on the cover of the album is Paula Patton, who was Thicke's then-girlfriend and his future ex-wife.
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World is the seventh studio album from The Decemberists, released on January 20, 2015.
 The album's title comes from a line in the song "12/17/12", a reference to the date of Barack Obama's speech in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and lead singer Colin Meloy's conflicting feelings about the shooting and his happy personal life.
"Beautiful World" is a song by Japanese musician Utada Hikaru.
 It served as the theme song for "", the 2007 film reboot of the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
 It was released as a double A-side single on August 29, 2007 along with her song "Kiss & Cry", which had been released digitally three months earlier.
 In 2009, a remix of the song, "Beautiful World (Planitb Acoustica Mix)" served as the theme song of the second film in the series, "".
Florasongs (stylized florasongs) is an EP by the American indie rock band The Decemberists, released on October 9, 2015, on Capitol Records.
 The release is composed of five out-takes from their seventh studio album, "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World".
Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour was the sixth world tour by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, in support of their eighth studio album, "Endless Forms Most Beautiful".
Vehicle of Spirit is a video and audio release from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
 Two shows have been recorded during Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour; one at Tampere Stadium (July 31, 2015) and the other at Wembley Arena (December 19, 2015).
 Also, various songs were recorded around the world.
 It was released on December 16, 2016 in Europe and January 7, 2017 in North America.
The Anthem of the Heart, subtitled Beautiful Word Beautiful World, is a 2015 Japanese animated youth drama film produced by A-1 Pictures, directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada.
 The original title is Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda.
 (心が叫びたがってるんだ。 , lit.
 "The Heart Wants to Shout") , and it is abbreviated as Kokosake (ここさけ ) .
 It was worked on by the staff who had previously worked on the anime series "" and its film adaptation.
 It was released on September 19, 2015.
Beautiful World is the tenth studio album of the Japanese boy band Arashi.
 The album was released on July 6, 2011 in Japan under their record label J Storm in two editions: a limited edition version with a 48-page booklet and a regular CD version with a 32-page booklet.
 The album debuted at number-one on the "Oricon" weekly album chart, selling 631,000 copies, making it their third consecutive album to reach sales of more than half a million copies.
 As of December 2011, the album has sold more than a million copies.
 According to "Oricon", "Beautiful World" is the best-selling album of 2011 in Japan.
Kino's Journey: the Beautiful World (Japanese: キノの旅 -the Beautiful World- , Hepburn: Kino no Tabi -the Beautiful World- ) , shortened to Kino's Journey, is a Japanese light novel series written by Keiichi Sigsawa, with illustrations by Kouhaku Kuroboshi.
 The series originally started serialization in volume five of MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel magazine "Dengeki hp" on March 17, 2000.
 The first volume of the series was published on July 10, 2000 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko publishing imprint.
 As of October 2014, 18 volumes have been published, and over 8 million copies of the novels have been sold in Japan.
 In "Kino's Journey", the protagonist, Kino, accompanied by a talking motorcycle named Hermes, travels through a mystical world of many different countries and forests, each unique in its customs and people.
 A spin-off light novel series titled "Gakuen Kino" began with the first volume published on July 10, 2006 by ASCII Media Works; four volumes have been released as of July 2010.