Bob Dylan's 1965 song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" features conventions common to folk music videos of the time like black and white filters and text overlays. The lyrics refer to 1960s American counterculture and drug culture with lines about making LSD in basements and paranoia about government surveillance. The title of the song reflects the underground social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and it references the Civil Rights Movement by mentioning attacks in Alabama using fire hoses and police dogs against protesters. Through his lyrics and voice, Dylan became a spokesman for his generation.