Not saying that you need to have struggled to make art, but when your existence, you life, has been easier than 99% of humanity, you aren’t going to be able to properly connect on a human level to that rest of humanity.
This is also why I think music artists who break through via connecting with people and current conditions end up being shit later on. Their success transforms their lives and they lose the connection they had struggle that allowed them to make that art in the first place. They were writing about their own experiences, and they continue to write about their own experiences later but it hits different because their conditions changed.
The politically well educated artists understand this and aim to keep their connection but many are very unaware of it.
Marx is cooking