Protest music has taken many shapes over the years, and one German organization is using streaming music to help censored journalists share their stories with the world. Reporters Without Borders Germany, a branch of the international non-profit that advocates for press freedom, has released the Uncensored Playlist, a collection of songs produced by independent journalists working in places with strict governmental suppression of press freedom. In these songs, the journalists share unedited pop song renditions of previously censored stories that have then been uploaded onto Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer.

The playlist includes 10 songs in English by four journalists and one organization — Chang Ping, Bùi Thanh Hiếu, Galima Bukharbaeva, Basma Abdel Aziz, and reporters from online Thai newspaper Prachatai — as well as eight additional Uzbek, Vietnamese, Egyptian, and Chinese versions. Reporters Without Borders Germany says it has used a digital loophole to make the songs available even in the countries where the uncensored written articles — which covered topics from police brutality in Uzbekistan to government corruption in Vietnam — originally were not. Even without the wealth of background information and context Reporters Without Borders Germany provides, the playlist is still fun to listen to. And when it comes to exposing people to your message, having a catchy tune certainly helps.