Let Me Be (The Turtles song) Sloan's song "Eve of Destruction", which became a number 1 hit in the U.S. for Barry McGuire, recognizing that, with its uncompromising message, "You just couldn't make a statement like that and ever work again." He said that they accepted "Let Me Be" because it represented "just the perfect level of rebellion … haircuts and non-conformity".<ref name="Unterberger/JingleJangleMorning"></ref> Author Peter Doggett describes "Let Me Be" as a "perfect encapsulation of teenage angst". In his book "1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music", Andrew Grant Jackson identifies it as part of a "subgenre" of protest songs that emerged during 1965, in which
Protest song spe is explicitly in favour of an Estonian identity. Finland has a long tradition of socialist and communist protest songs beginning in years before Finnish Civil War, most of which were imported and translated from Soviet Russia. Notably, right-wing protest songs are completely absent in contrast to Estonian tradition and widely considered socially unacceptable. In the 21st century the socialist protest song tradition is continued by rap artists and to lesser degree in more traditional Taistoist form by KOM-theatre choir. "The Internationale" (""L'Internationale"" in French) is a socialist, anarchist, communist, and social-democratic anthem. "The Internationale" became the anthem of international