I disagree with that. I think those songs, including some of Alice's, helped to codify and nurture a rebellious attitude that supported positive change. And you have to remind yourself of the history of songwriting--it's always been an agenda-based medium. For instance, the flowering of the troubador age in Richard the Lionheart-era Europe stemmed in large part from an early kind of urbanised sprawl which allowed the freedom for louche, decadent, sensual, con man types to wander the foul, shit spackled streets of Paris or London, singing love songs to anyone who would listen, or who might pay them to go away. One of them was a dissolute nobleman named Blondel, a nihilistic cynic with a hyperactive libido. When Richard the Lionheart ran into P.R. trouble with his cousin who usurped his throne while he was in prison or something, Blondel (a childhood mate of the deposed but righteous king) sold Richard on this idea of throwing a mega-party for all the story-telling troubadors out there--ten days of out and out debauchery--food, drink... etc... The only requirement for attendance at the royal soiree was that the troubs all had to learn a bunch of new songs that Blondel wrote. Songs specifically celebrating the heroism, nobility, generosity, selflessness, honor, and integrity of one Richard the Lionheart. In fact that very name was an invention of Blondel. So the party happened, the songs got written and taught, venereal disease was spread still faster, and the troubadors scattered into the hinterlands spreading the glory of the newly minted "King Richard, the Lionheart" A legend was born, soldiers flocked to the cause, and Richard was soon King Richard once again. Which as it turned out, was a good thing. So go figure.