There’s no denying that Moor Mother’s music reflects the seismic changes happening across the world and the rise of the voices of marginalised people. But in order to reach more people, what is needed from her, is a more self-reflexive work than this. Our protestations and grievances will be met with sympathy, which does nothing to inspire respect. Political rhetoric has been so debased globally. We find ourselves in a spiritually insolvent age in which a diet of sugar-candy populism and rote sloganeering corrodes mind, body and soul. If Moor Mother truly wants to set herself apart from this, she needs tell us what future she wants to see – in clearer terms. Her rage needs to take us somewhere. Call me old fashioned, but good protest song, is one in which the artist caresses the song until it yields more delights than its author had intended. A good protest song tells us as much about the composer as it does about the injustice being spoken about. We need songs that will paint a vision of the future. Until Moor Mother rethinks her stylistic approach, she will be confined to her tiny audience, which will never be enough to wage the revolution that she wants to see.