Can popular music achieve genuine political change?

With Shuker’s suggestions that popular music can be ‘a means of raising both consciousness about and funds for, political causes’ it can be implied that popular music can have a hand in the awareness of politics to help a certain case but not enough of an affect to make a change by itself. ‘Popular music is hardly the preserve of the political left and broadly progressive politics. It can, and has been, used to support a broad range of political positions’, says Shuker. This again emphasizing that popular music can help a political party in its cause but cannot make the political change with just the use of the music. Or in the case of the Sex Pistols, with their song God Save the Queen, suggested anarchy and how they don’t agree with the way she handle’s the country, yet this popular song didn’t change the Queen being on the thrown.