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A few weeks back when I was asked by my Emmy award winning producer friend to write a song and make a video for Hillary, I told her flat out that this wasn’t an exciting election , and I wasn’t really inspired to create anything for it. It was certainly nothing like 2008 when after 8 years of Bush and Cheney, Barak Obama excited the whole world. We made this funky video then which went viral in a matter of hours. No this election is very different, but I thought about it some more, and I thought about Hillary the candidate and person. Trump was leading is some polls, and I started to do more research into Hillary’s long history of service. I went back to her youth which is really telling for me because it is that early fire that is the foundation for a life’s work, or the point of departure. Hillary Rodham Clinton has most definitely invested her entire life into realizing the dreams she had as a young idealistic woman. Her history of growth as a human being and a public service is absolutely incredible. If you examine her history, it is logical that she winds up as the first woman president.
Anyhow, I got inspired, and I said “yes, let’s make the song and video!” Then the thought immediatly came that because Hillary has been with us for so long, there was a certain un-excitement about her. Now, in 40 years of life or public service, anyone who is human will do something to prove that they are not perfect and cannot please everyone! But there is far too much unfounded negative energy towards HRC from people that really don’t know or won’t tell or respect her FULL story. The resulting misconceptions abound about Hillary and it is a shame because this woman is like Bruce Springsteen, she has been a rock star for a long, long time!
So my concept for the music and the video came out of these thoughts and resulted in a rapid fire telling of some of the landmarks of Hillary’s long history of service over an extremely funky beat. I came up with the song idea as soon as I hung up the phone with Nicole, my producer friend, and sang it into my phone. I recorded it that weekend using a moog bass and a beat I played in Reason (music program). Nicole assembled a team of film people and the official producers and promoters of this video, VOICES4HILLARY, put together a group of supporters that would read the lines on camera. We filmed and edited everything and put the video up on Tuesday. As I write this it has 11k views on Facebook. I think it is a powerful little video and I hope it inspires you, because we not only need to vote for Hillary, we need to be inspired and put some good energy out there for her. We are very lucky to have her and cannot continue to let the massive blurring of reality that is happening with Trump and the right, with emails that are smokescreens, and BS! Let’s keep it real, Lets get excited people. Let’s vote an incredibly qualified woman into office! Checkout the video and share !
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