Camp and his bandmates broached climate change at a time when most popular musicians were not doing so. Its inclusion in вЂњShrek,вЂќ for example, brings the song and its ideas to new generations.ДЄnd Mr. But вЂњAll StarвЂќ endures in part because the band authorized its use вЂњto every single thing,вЂќ Mr. вЂњAll StarвЂќ isnвЂ™t the first time the band tackled climate change: вЂњWalkinвЂ™ on the Sun,вЂќ released two years earlier, also touched on the subject. He said he felt that musicians and other artists that have a podium needed to at least mention climate change вЂњto try and get people to be a part of the problem-solving as opposed to part of the problem.вЂќ вЂњIвЂ™m no scientist, IвЂ™m just the guy that writes songs and plays guitar,вЂќ Smash MouthвЂ™s Mr. (The others are about the forced removal of Australian Aboriginal people, the 9/11 attacks and hooking up at the club.) Smash MouthвЂ™s вЂњAll StarвЂќ was mentioned repeatedly and has the distinction of actually being about climate change. Several songs - Midnight OilвЂ™s вЂњBeds Are Burning,вЂќ Sarah McLachlanвЂ™s вЂњWorld on FireвЂќ and NellyвЂ™s вЂњHot in HerreвЂќ - came up that arenвЂ™t about climate change. This year we asked people on Twitter for their favorite songs by popular artists that are related to climate change. Take a look at, and listen to, some of the highlights, beginning in 1999 when a California power-pop band called Smash Mouth warned us that the ice was getting pretty thin. Two-thirds came in the last decade, which was also the hottest decade on record, with 26 of the songs released last year. And like climate change, those references are accelerating. Yet in recent decades, even as climate change caused temperatures to soar and triggered lethal hurricanes, catastrophic fires and cataclysmic floods across the United States and its territories, a keen ear could hear the theme of global warming starting to swell, from country to rap, rock to pop.ДЄ look at lyrics from all artists who have appeared on any of BillboardвЂ™s domestic charts in the past two decades revealed at least 192 references to climate change. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the music of bounce artist 5th Ward Webbie crystallized the feeling, common among many New Orleanians, that their government had abandoned them. Twenty-five years ago, after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, вЂњLightning CrashesвЂќ by the rock band Live seemed to put a voice to the nationвЂ™s pain. It can help hold us together, both as individuals and collectively, when a trauma sends ripples across society. At its best, music can act as a kind of auditory restorative, lifting us up when we're down.

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