Courtesy of Rolling Stone:
Bruce Springsteen bashes President Trump as a "con man" on "That's What Makes Us Great," his new protest song with longtime collaborator Joe Grushecky. "Don't tell me a lie/ And sell it as a fact/ I've been down that road before/ And I ain't going back," Springsteen sings on the track, Pitchfork reports.
The song premiered Wednesday morning on SiriusXM and Grushecky's website. At one point in the sharply worded tune, Springsteen proclaims, "Don't you brag to me/ That you never read a book/ I never put my faith/ In a con man and his crooks."
In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Grushecky said he'd already written the song before initiating the collaboration. "I sent it to him and he liked it," he noted. "I said, 'What do you think about singing on it?' He gave it the Bruce treatment." The singer, who formerly fronted Pittsburgh rock band the Iron City Houserockers, added that Trump "lost [him] the moment he started making fun of special needs people," referring to an infamous speech where the Republican appeared to mimic a disabled reporter. "How could a person like that be president of the United States?"
As we know Springsteen was a huge Hillary supporter, and has become known as the musical voice of the middle class, so it should come as no surprise that he is fervent critic of Donald Trump's.
And the song is pretty good too.
Showing posts with label protest song. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest song. Show all posts
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Yesterday we lost a legend. Everybody has a favorite Pete Seeger song, this is mine.
Courtesy of the YouTube page:
On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955.
In one of Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the Don". Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering. It's universal message, "let there be peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.
When I was a teenager, the teachers in my high school went on strike.
The students were told that if we left class to stand with them we would be suspended.
Of course being me, I did go out, and they did suspend me. However the strike was over in a matter of days, and my suspension was over at about the same time.
While I was standing outside in the cold, I suddenly burst into song. This song.
Soon all along the picket line voices were raised in harmony.
One of my best days ever, and well worth the few days of suspension I received.
On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955.
In one of Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the Don". Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering. It's universal message, "let there be peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.
When I was a teenager, the teachers in my high school went on strike.
The students were told that if we left class to stand with them we would be suspended.
Of course being me, I did go out, and they did suspend me. However the strike was over in a matter of days, and my suspension was over at about the same time.
While I was standing outside in the cold, I suddenly burst into song. This song.
Soon all along the picket line voices were raised in harmony.
One of my best days ever, and well worth the few days of suspension I received.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Renegade Grannies sing about "Legitimate Rape." Oh yeah, THIS should start your morning off right!
You know I think my two now dearly departed grandmothers would have fit in just fine with that group. They were quite feisty as well.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Songwriter Sheryl Crow sends message to Sarah Palin in new album.
Courtesy of Geoffrey Dunn at Huffington Post:
"Say What You Want To" -- a driving fusion of funk and country rock -- opens with a direct and unambiguous denunciation of Palin and her role as a paid, political pundit on Fox News:
I saw you ranting on TV today
I heard you tell me to reload
You got a lot of nerve to talk that way
Someone unplug the microphone
I'm tired of all the fighting
Cynicism and back biting
Can't even hear myself think
You pour the Kool-Aid and then we drink...
You can hear a preview of the song by clicking here.
Well that pretty much sums it up now doesn't it? And this was BEFORE Palin sent the incredibly ignorant and divisive tweets that she went out yesterday. Just imagine how much blow back she will get from here on out.
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