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Kickstarter has launched a series called “Election Issues,” which invites artists to contribute politically inspired works. Ted Leo has shared his contribution—a song called “In the Mean Times.” Listen below.
“In the Mean Times” is accompanied by an essay featuring his thoughts while writing the song and his criticisms of Donald Trump’s candidacy. He wrote of the song:
It’s a song about my own economic anxiety, my anger at the way it’s been used by the Right, my own white privilege in being able to sit back and think and write a fucking song about this, knowing full well that it’s hitting other people much harder than it’s hitting me; my desire to gather close to the people that I love and to tell those who feel personally under attack by these politics of divisiveness that I love them especially right now, that everyone who’s been pushing back is an inspiration to me, and that I hope we all come through this together and ready to keep fighting after November 9, because this work will continue. These fights will be with us for a long, long time.
Read his full essay and the song’s lyrics here, and learn more about Kickstarter’s “Election Issues” here. Leo also shared the individual tracks and encouraged people to rework and remix the song.
Watch Ted Leo and Fucked Up cover Black Flag, via Pitchfork.tv:
