JULIAN!

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John making the lamest joke ever

I’m not a Hannah fan but how is it any different to hozier who has written songs about similar things. I guess I know what you mean by she’s relating it to her song but I do think when you create a piece of art/ music about something deeply troubled in the world, and your producers and music execs are dropping you and threatening to take the music down, you’d feel a little protective about the music that spreads awareness for these important issues?

I'll tell you the biggest reason why I feel that Hannah's activism falls flat every single time and she proved it again today. This right here.

She does not care about her message. She cares more about her streams than her word. She never posts links to charities or organizations to help those effected by loss and tragedy, she doesn't tag or work alongside any of them.

She consistently repackages her old songs to appeal to people who are feel the effects of real life tragedy. I don't believe Hannah is being genuinely censored because of her political beliefs. I think her music is being taken down because of something she refuses to speak about.

Hannah has a history with her fans and people in the industry of being stubborn and unfriendly to those trying to help her, there's a whole Instagram account about that @ venusinvolume that you can find all that.

Hozier and even GVF are very political but when they speak out about tragedy, they aren't selling you an EP track. They're speaking out as people with posts about injustice and inequality and what you can do to help and donate. Not "this reminds me of a song I wrote 5 years ago which is streaming on Apple music RIP to those who died"

It always cracks me up, this moment in the Midsummer Night’s Dream skit, where John (as Thisbe) discovers Pyramus dead. Lennon gets so rough with McCartney that Paul’s eyes fly open in surprise and he laughs. As do we all. 

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others: