Bubblyrat, Great songs with feeling come from the downtrodden and oppressed people of the world, when you live in a province made for a built-in majority and suffer centuries of hatred from a parliament of bigots, the songs written and sung are from the heart.
As Akenaton explained, democracy was and still is a standing joke here, murdering the innocent was the norm for all warlike nations, and the new name for that is collateral damage.