OK, I just got my iPod back from Apple (they replaced my dead one with a new one) and am putting music back on it, starting with my
Michael Franti CDs. (My absolute favorite hip-hop artist--got to see him in concert a couple weeks ago--OUTSTANDING!)
This got me thinking. Music has been a big part of many social movements. Just think of the role that folk music played in the 1960s, or the union organizing songs from earlier in the twentieth century, or the women's music festival circuit and the role of what one of my lesbian friends called DAGs (dykes and guitars) in feminist movements. What we need today is good political music.
It's pretty obvious from previous postings of mine that I'm active within LGBT politics--at this time, the fight for marriage. So, below I've put a link and lyrics for what I think that movement should be using as a theme song. My suggestion...others do the same for movements they're a part of. Corny, maybe. But also fun and a good way to discover new music.
A Theme Song for the Same-Sex Marriage Movement
Do Ya Love by
Michael Franti
From the disc, Stay Human
So many times, people turn they backs to you
'cause they don't wanna see, what's inside of you
'cause lookin' inside of you
they might realize there's something inside of them
they might not wanna find
But it ain't about who ya love (who ya love)
see it's all about do ya love (do ya love)
chorus
Well well well well
sunshine, and loveliness
ain't nobody feeling no ugliness tonight
ain't it fine like sippin sweet Georgia wine
see I'm just chillin with these friends of mine
I ain't tryin' a bother you
so why ya gotta bother me
what goes on in your bedroom ain't no mess to me
you say your God don't like my God
'cause you don't like my friends
but your friends tried to kill a man
and I don't understand
'cause it ain't about who ya love (who ya love)
see it's all about do ya love (do ya love)
(chorus)
Ooh one two three
say yeah say yeah feels so good to me
Ooh! and ya one two three, say yeah, say yeah
feels so good!!!!
I say do it at home or on the street
with a drag queen don't matter to me
it ain't about sex or havin' degrees
your pedigree don't matter to me
about who ya love (who ya love)
see it's all about do ya love (do ya love)
(chorus)
OK, I'm done being goofy. Seriously, though, check out Franti's music.
And sing, sing, sing!