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But the incident still affects her. “I talk about the sense of rape energy that has continued to swirl around me, things happening to me that are out of my control,” she says. “And then in the microcosm of Hollywood, being put in the situation where you’re not supposed to have any boundaries. You’re supposed to be grateful if your fans want to be around you or touch you or grope you or yank you around, and all of that is supposed to just be par for the course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union says her goal has never hearing the words “me too” again, but sexual assault is far too common. Her experience motivated her to take on a role in the film \u003cem>Birth of a Nation\u003c/em>, about the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. She plays Esther, a slave who’s raped by a drunken dinner party guest at a plantation. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:10 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gord Downie, singer of The Tragically Hip, died of complications from brain cancer Tuesday night at the age of 53. His death was announced in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thehipdotcom/status/920628509369950208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement\u003c/a> from his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gordie said he had lived many lives,” his family writes. “As a musician, he lived ‘the life’ for over 30 years, lucky to do most of it with his high school buddies. At home, he worked just as tirelessly at being a good father, son, brother, husband and friend. No one worked harder on every part of life than Gord. No one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tragically Hip — Downie, bassist Gord Sinclair, guitarist Rob Baker and drummer Johnny Fay — was formed in a high school in the Canadian province of Ontario in 1984. Guitarist Paul Langlois joined in 1986 while the group was performing in small venues across Ontario. The Tragically Hip would go on to be one of Canada’s best-known bands, becoming indelible within the country’s pop landscape during its ascent in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the news of Downie’s passing, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \u003ca href=\"http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/10/18/statement-prime-minister-canada-death-gord-downie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes\u003c/a> that the singer “painted landscapes with his words, elevating Canadian geography, historical figures, and myths. When he spoke, he gave us goosebumps and made us proud to be Canadian. Our identity and culture are richer because of his music, which was always raw and honest — like Gord himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the band never broke into the upper 50 of the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> 200 stateside, it placed seven No. 1 albums on \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>‘s Canadian Albums chart. Of its 13 studio albums, three have been certified diamond (more than 1 million copies sold) and eight certified platinum (more than 100,000 copies sold) in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While The Hip’s music was inescapable in its home country, Downie seemed to have a knack for recruiting fans from the most unlikely sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damian Abraham, singer of the Canadian hardcore band F***** Up, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqkqnb/how-i-learned-its-ok-to-be-punk-and-still-love-the-tragically-hip\">wrote for \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqkqnb/how-i-learned-its-ok-to-be-punk-and-still-love-the-tragically-hip\">Vice\u003c/a> \u003c/em>that The Tragically Hip’s “songs are stitched into the collective subconscious of this country in a way that can only come from being played constantly on radio, television, and during breaks of play at sports events,” and that after deeper listening, “I was blown away by Gord’s ability to tell stories and convey emotion within the constraints of the song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downie announced his illness \u003ca href=\"http://www.thehip.com/news/an-important-message-from-the-band/\">in May 2016\u003c/a>, after being diagnosed in December 2015. “It is my difficult duty today to tell you that Gord Downie’s brain tumour is incurable,” neuro-oncologist James Perry \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gord-downie-cancer-doctor-1.3597361\">told a news conference\u003c/a> at the time of its announcement. In response to the news, Prime Minister Trudeau \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/735119677542785025?lang=en\">tweeted\u003c/a>: “Downie is a true original who has been writing Canada’s soundtrack for more than 30 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterward, Downie also announced he would be joining The Tragically Hip for what would be its final tour, culminating in a performance in the band’s birthplace of Kingston, Ontario. The concert was streamed across Canada and watched by 11.7 million people, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-acquires-tragically-hip-doc-long-time-running-tiff-2017-1038124\">according\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>. The tour, and that final show, were documented for the documentary film \u003cem>Long Time Running\u003c/em>, which is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on Nov. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downie \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/14490/gord-downie-peter-mansbridge-things-we-learned\">told the CBC\u003c/a> that the tour “was just heaven on Earth. And all these sorts of provisions were made for me. Just every fantasy I’ve ever had for a show was coming true.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Gord+Downie%2C+Singer+Of+The+Tragically+Hip%2C+Dies+At+53&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When it comes to music history, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/04/27/475721555/questlove-on-prince-doo-wop-and-the-food-equivalent-of-the-mona-lisa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questlove\u003c/a> is an Afro-pick rocking compendium of knowledge. So when the co-founder of The Roots got wind that Keith Olbermann’s come-lately compliment of Eminem’s Trump smackdown was couched within a tweet that seemed to dismiss the entire genre of rap, he vowed to take the progressive pundit to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olbermann, whose new book \u003cem>Trump Is F****** Crazy (this is not a joke)\u003c/em> came out this week, was likely just tipping his hat to a fellow anti-Trumpite when he tweeted: “After 27 years of doubts about rap I am now an Eminem fan. Best political writing of the year, period.” But the host of \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em>‘s \u003cem>The Resistance\u003c/em> unwittingly revealed his willful ignorance of the genre in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/questlove/status/919104904161103872\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/questlove/status/919105936949641216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have your mind SET to shut out hip hop,” Questlove wrote Saturday in a series of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/questlove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23 (unthreaded) tweets\u003c/a> that questioned how the political commentator — with whom the five-time Grammy Award-winner often agrees — could be so culturally un-hip. “Saying you ignored rap for 27 years is basically saying you’re indifferent to the very black lives you champion on your platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he proceeded to do the most Questlovian thing ever. \u003cstrong>He made Olbermann a mixtape.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1214851524/playlist/22NWZn7SYa64Z4bl6j92il\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titled \u003cem>The Keith O Challeng\u003c/em>e, the resulting \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/user/1214851524/playlist/22NWZn7SYa64Z4bl6j92il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">201-song playlist\u003c/a> is now streaming on Spotify. (And before you ask whether this is just some promo deal on the low, you should know that Questlove is also a “strategic ambassador and advisor” at the competing platform Pandora, which airs his weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3707576888858264319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Questlove Supreme\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast. In other words, he did this one for — you guessed it — the culture.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the twist: Questlove’s playlist contains \u003cem>not one single rap song\u003c/em>. We’ll get back to that in a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out he wasn’t Olbermann’s only vocal critic over the weekend, or the first. After appearing on \u003cem>All Things Considered \u003c/em>last Friday to parse the fallout surrounding \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/10/11/557071559/eminems-presidential-diss-wasnt-the-only-political-statement-at-bet-hip-hop-awar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eminem’s BET Hip Hop Awards freestyle\u003c/a>, I continued my commentary, originally intended for my on-air conversation with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly McEvers\u003c/a>, on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Rodneyology/status/918987125005213697\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[H]ow much rap have you listened [to] — or ignored — over the past 27 years?” I tweeted at Olbermann in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rodneyology/status/918987125005213697\">thread\u003c/a> that somehow went viral. “[F]rom Chuck D to Joey Bad*ss, hip-hop has been the most politically outspoken genre of the last three decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question posed to Olbermann was an attempt to grapple with all the misconceptions flourishing in the wake of Eminem’s dis. With the hype reaching a mainstream pitch, Eminem’s attack of the president’s policies and personal character was being framed as some kind of first — as if hip-hop, and the bulk of African-American MCs who make up the genre, have been biting their tongues for the past year, and even the past 27, as Olbermann’s tweet implied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It revealed a deeper truth, in a sense. “By and large, white America \u003cem>still \u003c/em>doesn’t hear black people,” I tweeted. And that in no way contradicts Nielsen’s mid-year report for 2017, which ranked hip-hop/R&B as the most consumed music genre. Rather, it suggests that despite being entertained by our rhythm and modern-day blues, Middle America often fails to comprehend the black experience, even when painstakingly articulated. Hip-hop’s righteous rage and political outspokenness still falls on deaf ears outside the culture. Eminem just echoed what his black and brown peers have been saying, spitting, screaming and streaming in record numbers for the past year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we don’t get no credit for dissing Trump a year ago,” West Coast rapper \u003ca href=\"http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/10/yg-credit-dissing-president-trump/\">YG tweeted\u003c/a> in the midst of last week’s media frenzy. His song “F*** Donald Trump,” featuring Nipsey Hussle, was released back in March 2016. It’s one of numerous presidential critiques, ranging from profane to profound, released by artists including A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Kendrick Lamar, will.i.am, T.I. Amine, and a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main thing that made Eminem’s rehearsed freestyle different is his intended listener. He knows as well as anyone how much overlap there is on a Venn diagram of his fanbase and Trump’s constituency. And that’s no attempt to discredit Em because of his whiteness; he’s an undeniable giant of the genre. But when his contemporaries of color take part in similar political discourse without receiving the same elevated platform or heightened fanfare, it highlights the insidious role race has played in the appropriation of black music since the industry’s beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By applauding Eminem’s critique without full consideration of that context, Olbermann contributed to that historical downplaying. He shouldn’t be expected to have an exhaustive knowledge of the genre; taste in music is totally subjective. But implying hip-hop lacks political heft is beyond laughable; it’s legacy denial, whether intended or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to Questlove’s monster playlist: More than 10 hours long and not one solitary rap song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it does contain, however, is a deep dive on the genre’s genetic forebear: the funk. Questlove mines hip-hop’s sonic DNA with heavily-sampled ’60s/’70s classics from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/19/349621429/the-song-that-never-ends-why-earth-wind-fires-september-sustains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth, Wind & Fire\u003c/a>, The Ohio Players, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15180612/sly-the-family-stone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sly and the Family Stone\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15595533/the-meters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Meters\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15127458/booker-t-the-mg-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booker T. and The MGs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15166353/betty-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betty Davis\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/539035525/diana-ross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Ross\u003c/a> and, of course, a heap of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15316566/james-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a crate-diggers dream, full of familiar-sounding obscurities such as Dyke & The Blazers “Let A Woman Be A Woman – Let A Man Be A Man,” notably sampled by artists ranging from Stetsasonic (“Sally”) to Public Enemy (“Welcome To The Terrordome”) to Tyler, the Creator (“Rusty”). There’s Blackbyrds’ “Mysterious Vibes” (Paris’ “The Days Of Old,” Big K.R.I.T.’s “Highs And Lows,” et al.) and Faze-O’s “Riding High” (EPMD’s “Please Listen To My Demo” and more). The opening saxophone riff from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/16318474/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay-Z\u003c/a>‘s “Show Me What You Got”? It’s in there, all languid and mellow, on Lafayette Afro Rock Band’s “Darkest Light.” And if you’re looking for some of those uncleared gems buried in De La Soul’s classic discography, still in digital limbo, you’ll recognize the piano licks from Erma Franklin’s 1969 cover of “Light My Fire” as the end transition of \u003cem>De La Soul Is Dead\u003c/em>‘s “A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point being, this is deeper than rap. There’s an entire cultural continuum that undergirds even the most commercial rubble of any genre. To doubt hip-hop is to dismiss its rich heritage and to shrug off the contemporary trials and triumphs of its progeny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though I seriously doubt Questlove ever saw the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rodneyology/status/918993673840406529\">#KeithOlbermannMixtape\u003c/a> hashtag I tweeted out the night before, hip-hop heads — whether afros or baldies like me — tend to think alike. The artist-scholar and occasional DJ probably already had the syllabus I’d merely alluded to cued up and ready to go. The best part is his 201-song playlist is just the jump-off. He’s already promised to return next month with another installment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More power to Questlove. It takes a special kind of emotional labor to play cultural ambassador to an indifferent audience. But to Olbermann’s credit — and my surprise — he replied to my tweets the following day. “Hate to hit your narrative but I’ve been a fan of political protest music, rap and otherwise, for 50 years. My ‘doubts’ were about my personal tastes,” he explained, before name-dropping a couple references meant to highlight his hip-hop bona fides. “I had Coolio and LL Cool J cassettes before I owned a CD player.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that admission, he may have earned more pity than cool points. But point taken, nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/919079555310243840\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eminem’s bodying Trump was the first time I got the thrill,” Olbermann continued. “No disrespect intended, more a public questioning of my own tastes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And every man should indeed be entitled to his own taste. But if Keith O ever feels the urge to challenge himself with a deep dive into hip-hop’s historical and sociopolitical significance, Questlove’s curated the perfect playlist for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll be bumping it on repeat in the meantime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he proceeded to do the most Questlovian thing ever. \u003cstrong>He made Olbermann a mixtape.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1214851524/playlist/22NWZn7SYa64Z4bl6j92il\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titled \u003cem>The Keith O Challeng\u003c/em>e, the resulting \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/user/1214851524/playlist/22NWZn7SYa64Z4bl6j92il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">201-song playlist\u003c/a> is now streaming on Spotify. (And before you ask whether this is just some promo deal on the low, you should know that Questlove is also a “strategic ambassador and advisor” at the competing platform Pandora, which airs his weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3707576888858264319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Questlove Supreme\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast. In other words, he did this one for — you guessed it — the culture.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the twist: Questlove’s playlist contains \u003cem>not one single rap song\u003c/em>. We’ll get back to that in a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out he wasn’t Olbermann’s only vocal critic over the weekend, or the first. After appearing on \u003cem>All Things Considered \u003c/em>last Friday to parse the fallout surrounding \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/10/11/557071559/eminems-presidential-diss-wasnt-the-only-political-statement-at-bet-hip-hop-awar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eminem’s BET Hip Hop Awards freestyle\u003c/a>, I continued my commentary, originally intended for my on-air conversation with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly McEvers\u003c/a>, on social media.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“[H]ow much rap have you listened [to] — or ignored — over the past 27 years?” I tweeted at Olbermann in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rodneyology/status/918987125005213697\">thread\u003c/a> that somehow went viral. “[F]rom Chuck D to Joey Bad*ss, hip-hop has been the most politically outspoken genre of the last three decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question posed to Olbermann was an attempt to grapple with all the misconceptions flourishing in the wake of Eminem’s dis. With the hype reaching a mainstream pitch, Eminem’s attack of the president’s policies and personal character was being framed as some kind of first — as if hip-hop, and the bulk of African-American MCs who make up the genre, have been biting their tongues for the past year, and even the past 27, as Olbermann’s tweet implied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It revealed a deeper truth, in a sense. “By and large, white America \u003cem>still \u003c/em>doesn’t hear black people,” I tweeted. And that in no way contradicts Nielsen’s mid-year report for 2017, which ranked hip-hop/R&B as the most consumed music genre. Rather, it suggests that despite being entertained by our rhythm and modern-day blues, Middle America often fails to comprehend the black experience, even when painstakingly articulated. Hip-hop’s righteous rage and political outspokenness still falls on deaf ears outside the culture. Eminem just echoed what his black and brown peers have been saying, spitting, screaming and streaming in record numbers for the past year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we don’t get no credit for dissing Trump a year ago,” West Coast rapper \u003ca href=\"http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/10/yg-credit-dissing-president-trump/\">YG tweeted\u003c/a> in the midst of last week’s media frenzy. His song “F*** Donald Trump,” featuring Nipsey Hussle, was released back in March 2016. It’s one of numerous presidential critiques, ranging from profane to profound, released by artists including A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Kendrick Lamar, will.i.am, T.I. Amine, and a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main thing that made Eminem’s rehearsed freestyle different is his intended listener. He knows as well as anyone how much overlap there is on a Venn diagram of his fanbase and Trump’s constituency. And that’s no attempt to discredit Em because of his whiteness; he’s an undeniable giant of the genre. But when his contemporaries of color take part in similar political discourse without receiving the same elevated platform or heightened fanfare, it highlights the insidious role race has played in the appropriation of black music since the industry’s beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By applauding Eminem’s critique without full consideration of that context, Olbermann contributed to that historical downplaying. He shouldn’t be expected to have an exhaustive knowledge of the genre; taste in music is totally subjective. But implying hip-hop lacks political heft is beyond laughable; it’s legacy denial, whether intended or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to Questlove’s monster playlist: More than 10 hours long and not one solitary rap song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it does contain, however, is a deep dive on the genre’s genetic forebear: the funk. Questlove mines hip-hop’s sonic DNA with heavily-sampled ’60s/’70s classics from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/19/349621429/the-song-that-never-ends-why-earth-wind-fires-september-sustains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth, Wind & Fire\u003c/a>, The Ohio Players, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15180612/sly-the-family-stone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sly and the Family Stone\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15595533/the-meters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Meters\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15127458/booker-t-the-mg-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booker T. and The MGs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15166353/betty-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betty Davis\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/539035525/diana-ross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Ross\u003c/a> and, of course, a heap of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15316566/james-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a crate-diggers dream, full of familiar-sounding obscurities such as Dyke & The Blazers “Let A Woman Be A Woman – Let A Man Be A Man,” notably sampled by artists ranging from Stetsasonic (“Sally”) to Public Enemy (“Welcome To The Terrordome”) to Tyler, the Creator (“Rusty”). There’s Blackbyrds’ “Mysterious Vibes” (Paris’ “The Days Of Old,” Big K.R.I.T.’s “Highs And Lows,” et al.) and Faze-O’s “Riding High” (EPMD’s “Please Listen To My Demo” and more). The opening saxophone riff from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/16318474/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay-Z\u003c/a>‘s “Show Me What You Got”? It’s in there, all languid and mellow, on Lafayette Afro Rock Band’s “Darkest Light.” And if you’re looking for some of those uncleared gems buried in De La Soul’s classic discography, still in digital limbo, you’ll recognize the piano licks from Erma Franklin’s 1969 cover of “Light My Fire” as the end transition of \u003cem>De La Soul Is Dead\u003c/em>‘s “A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point being, this is deeper than rap. There’s an entire cultural continuum that undergirds even the most commercial rubble of any genre. To doubt hip-hop is to dismiss its rich heritage and to shrug off the contemporary trials and triumphs of its progeny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though I seriously doubt Questlove ever saw the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rodneyology/status/918993673840406529\">#KeithOlbermannMixtape\u003c/a> hashtag I tweeted out the night before, hip-hop heads — whether afros or baldies like me — tend to think alike. The artist-scholar and occasional DJ probably already had the syllabus I’d merely alluded to cued up and ready to go. The best part is his 201-song playlist is just the jump-off. He’s already promised to return next month with another installment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More power to Questlove. It takes a special kind of emotional labor to play cultural ambassador to an indifferent audience. But to Olbermann’s credit — and my surprise — he replied to my tweets the following day. “Hate to hit your narrative but I’ve been a fan of political protest music, rap and otherwise, for 50 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content advisory:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem> The videos and language below contain strong language and may be offensive to some.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two days women have overwhelmed social media with a truth often hidden in plain sight: \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One out of every six\u003c/a> women has been subject to an attempted or completed rape during her lifetime. Countless more endure other forms of assault, abuse or harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the recent revelations that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein performed such acts on dozens of women over the past four decades, the phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/the-woman-who-started-me-too-on-why-we-didnt-need-another-quiet-day-2920079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">me too,\u003c/a>” posted as a hashtag or Facebook status, did the usual digital-activism work of intensely personalizing a social and political issue that many could otherwise dismiss as “not my problem.” As some men posted, and some women of color argued, it takes a certain amount of privilege to feel safe enough to make even a two-word disclosure like this one. Questions about race and gender arose that necessarily complicate rapid-fire political discourses. Yet “me too” has approached a certain critical mass; the hashtag had been used 200,000 times as of Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a meme, “me too” does a great job of crystallizing the rage and vulnerability women feel in the face of rape culture. This conversation, however, is hardly new. Artists, activists, writers and musicians have told the stories of violated women across time — particularly since the 1990s, when popular music and feminism powerfully intersected in the pop mainstream and the musical underground. Here’s a list of twenty songs in which women said “me too” — without shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tori Amos, “Me And A Gun” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4KjmFMtiywPXyr6CbLOhY3\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stark, semi-autobiographical monologue, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15182176/tori-amos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amos\u003c/a> wrote to be performed a capella, takes the listener within the mind of a woman being raped – and is based on details of the singer-songwriter’s own assault after a show when she was 21. The emotional centerpiece of her solo debut album \u003cem>Little Earthquakes\u003c/em>, it remains one of pop’s most intimate and forthright accounts of how women experience sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TLC, “His Story” (1992)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3naqVKAWQJyghdX9VzYEJA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘His Story’ was happening before we were born,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15807876/tlc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TLC\u003c/a> member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas said in a recent interview, addressing this song’s theme of society’s tendency to accept the male viewpoint on sexual assault, even in the most dubious circumstances. A protest song in the guise of a funk jam, TLC’s invective has been somewhat forgotten, perhaps because it was inspired by and mentioned the highly controversial \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tawana Brawley\u003c/a> case of 1987; its big-picture take still resonates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Au Pairs, “Armagh” (1981)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5OqNaCBBU7qK5TeUzREhx1\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexual assault is always political, and sometimes it’s actually a tool of the state. The post-punk band Au Pairs – part of a vibrant feminist scene that arose in Northern England at the turn of the ’80s – made that reality explicit in this song, about female Irish Republican prisoners who were repeatedly strip-searched and reportedly violated as part of the daily routine in the Northern Irish prison of the song’s title. The women of Armagh conducted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theirisharchives.com/articles/view/97/The-Women-Hunger-Strikers-Of-Armagh-Prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“dirty protest”\u003c/a> to call attention to their plight; this song captures its disgust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liz Phair, “F*** and Run” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4MSdFtD1JPc2W3J13uJPeS\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15402643/liz-phair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phair\u003c/a>‘s album-length rejoinder to carelessly sexist indie rockers, \u003cem>Exile in Guyville\u003c/em>, is one of the finest accounts of all the crap that women put up with within music scenes. This deceptively wry ballad about one-night-stand Johnnies contains a shocking line — “even when I was twelve,” Phair sang, recalling all the times men enjoyed her body and then left her behind — that connects everyday, callous treatment to the larger culture of abuse that women must navigate, starting when they are girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bikini Kill, “Liar” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1aycS7_P-M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early ’90s Riot Grrrl movement brought the realities of rape culture into stark focus within an indie rock community that often presented itself as above “all that.” Kathleen Hanna, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/106311747/bikini-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a>‘s vocalist and visionary, was the Cassandra who demanded that the men around her acknowledge that they, too, were part of the mass deceit that allows male perpetrators to “deny, deny, deny, deny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fiona Apple, “Sullen Girl” (1996)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6cVxGzo7214XabSXFGasNl\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of sexual assault often, perhaps nearly always, last a lifetime. At 17, in this blunt, introspective, beautiful piano ballad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15183593/fiona-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiona Apple\u003c/a> revealed the aftermath of her rape at age 12. “My oblivion,” she called it, resurrecting herself through sheer grit and musicality, and guiding others to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Raincoats, “Off Duty Trip” (1979)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6hsh2tGBNL5WlaQLrD61P7\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rape culture is supported by a criminal justice system that can seem inclined towards preserving male power. (The recent case of Brock Turner, the Stanford student whose sentence was reduced by a judge concerned about its \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/02/the-judge-in-the-infamous-brock-turner-case-finally-explains-his-decision-a-year-later/?utm_term=.afbf2b168bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact on his future\u003c/a>, is illustrative.) Post-punk greats \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/539037321/the-raincoats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Raincoats\u003c/a> refer in this song to a much-publicized rape trial in which a British Army officer received lenient treatment from a judge concerned about his military standing, and contextualizes that outrage within a larger view of women’s objectification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rihanna, “Man Down” (2010)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/454h9zAIuTe1eJyw9iTnj4\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Barbadian queen of international pop has often alluded to sexualized violence in her songs, partly because of her own history, which includes surviving domestic assault by her then-boyfriend, the singer Chris Brown. This song takes on rape directly, and can be heard as a revenge fantasy aimed at the fiercely patriarchal culture of the Caribbean dancehall music it mines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>War On Women, “Say It” (2015)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0eta41JkL9xjzWxiPtuMEQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain environments where male bonding is prioritized — fraternities, for example, or perhaps summer rock festivals — have proven particularly conducive to men who violate women. This past summer, the Baltimore band War On Women brought this demand to disrupt such enclaves to Warped Tour, and, perhaps predictably,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.popsugar.com/news/How-Women-Warped-Tour-Pushing-Back-Against-Sexual-Harassment-43727311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endured a backlash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah McLachlan, “Possession” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/28SynOAuafgfxvPXWFgS7D\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stalking – the relentless invasion of a woman’s space and privacy – is a major aspect of the culture of misogyny. In one of her most resonant and popular songs, Lilith Fair co-founder \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15397450/sarah-mclachlan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah McLachlan\u003c/a> claimed power over a fan who’d stalked her by imagining herself in his position, a chancy move that allowed her some sense of power. Though, she said, the experience had forced her to live with the constant fear that she \u003ca href=\"http://www.addictedtosongwriting.com/sarah-mclachlan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">might be raped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rhiannon Giddens, “At the Purchaser’s Option” (2017)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5RmAtT0VaKttU0Eybo6ZWA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The #metoo hashtag rivets us because it feels urgent and new. But sexual assault is embedded in American culture, especially within the poison legacy of slavery. Newly minted MacArthur Foundation Genius \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/384980773/rhiannon-giddens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhiannon Giddens\u003c/a> brings listeners right into the bloodied heart of one enslaved woman impregnated by her rapist, whose resilience defied history itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eve, “Love is Blind” (1999)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0H2jfzzREOr9MF95HB7ry6\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of love,” Eve asked in this song dedicated to a friend who’d been killed by her boyfriend, “make you wish he would die?” The cycle of domestic violence included rape, and the rap royal included it as part of this cry for justice, which ends in a scenario of revenge. “Love is Blind” is a swaggering achievement that stands against hip-hop’s longstanding practice of \u003ca href=\"http://uproxx.com/webculture/50-absurd-rape-lyrics/\">making light\u003c/a> of sexual assault and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Otep, “Fillthee” (2001)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0AWMwRNXNc0bX2sPLWrxX7\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmospheres in which violence can be mounted against women are often aggressively male. Extreme heavy metal is, notoriously, a dude’s paradise; Otep Shamaya is one of the few women who has found stardom within it. From the start of her career, as in this song confronting the shame a rape victim feels, she has demanded that her peers acknowledge the ways in which they quash the feminine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amy Grant, “Ask Me” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5rLGbtNvUB8nqyUNTRC5n9\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All too often, women have been taught to blame themselves for their own victimization. Sometimes religion has enforced this self-condemnation. Amy Grant, one of contemporary Christian music’s superstars, turns this shame around by telling the story of a sexually abused child in poignant detail before celebrating the girl’s redemption as a grown woman. Grant puts mercy before patriarchal judgment in her version of being born again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gillian Welch, “Caleb Meyer” (1998)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/170BlLwmzfaW7hlKCl24sb\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder ballad is a Euro-American traditional song form that forms one of the foundations of folk music. Through its many tales of lone male wolves strangling women or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvXteZkByE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing them into rivers\u003c/a>, it also normalizes misogyny. In this satisfying twist on the usual story, by Americana’s master storyteller \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15237439/gillian-welch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gillian Welch\u003c/a> and her partner David Rawlings, the titular character is a rapist who becomes a casualty of his own criminal act when his victim – a determined survivor – grabs a broken bottle and ends both the crime and his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Haze, “Cleaning Out My Closet” (2012)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olBOFLqEREI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that men have erased women’s accounts of their own realities is by treating misogyny as a joke. The Detroit rapper Angel Haze battles one of the masters of that despicable art, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15404635/eminem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eminem\u003c/a>, in this truth-baring session. The Eminem song that shares this title is uncharacteristically (and barely) tender, qualified by a final rhyme about almost shooting his ex-wife Kim. Haze’s is much deeper, detailing childhood trauma enacted by multiple abusers and ending with her listing its devastating effects on her psyche. The truth is not a punchline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Thief, “Coma” (2017)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0cMGrVR6OQoNZwgmtQ0jWC\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crucial task of helping women recover from violence often falls to other women. In this gently redemptive song about recovery from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/467816510/big-thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Thief\u003c/a> — a response to Big Thief’s “Watering,” which details an assault, possibly of the same woman — the band’s singer-guitarist and main songwriter Adrianne Lenker becomes that nurturing companion, helping a survivor understand that both her inner and outer world have forever changed with what she’s endured, but that she can still see light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kira Isabella, “Quarterback” (2014)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5aIPwyYKzd3RyPvhwloeoZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peer pressure and alcohol are two potent forces that both feed rape culture and, sometimes, protect its perpetrators. Canadian country artist Kira Isabella and her songwriting team (including Saving Jane’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/martilynndodson?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marti Dodson\u003c/a>) capture that reality in the tale of a “no name girl from the freshman class” violated by the big man on campus and, in a tragic contemporary twist, by whatever witness chose to post images of the act on the Internet. Penn State and Steubenville are the backdrop for this all-too-familiar tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Petrol Girls, “Touch Me Again” (2016)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/21oFKSwN0SnBYC4bFtDZEI\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about the really not-very-difficult idea that you shouldn’t f*** people if they don’t want to have sex with you, and you shouldn’t touch people if they don’t want to be touched,” said Ren Aldridge, vocalist and leader of this raucously righteous London-based hardcore band, introducing this song at a recent show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lady Gaga, “Til It Happens To You” (2015)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0bCCGLHflR08UVA6oJJc8I\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If today’s rejuvenated mainstream consciousness about sexual assault has an anthem it is this ballad, co-written by pop’s Mother Monster alongside Diane Warren, the mother of many other massive hits. Featured in \u003cem>The Hunting Ground\u003c/em>, a 2015 documentary about rape on college campuses, it’s a giant power ballad whose ultimate message is that only those who’ve survived sexual violence can understand it. Tragically, the past few days have indicated that most women are in that position; songs like this one resonate all too widely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Songs+That+Say+%27Me+Too%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content advisory:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem> The videos and language below contain strong language and may be offensive to some.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two days women have overwhelmed social media with a truth often hidden in plain sight: \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One out of every six\u003c/a> women has been subject to an attempted or completed rape during her lifetime. Countless more endure other forms of assault, abuse or harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the recent revelations that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein performed such acts on dozens of women over the past four decades, the phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/the-woman-who-started-me-too-on-why-we-didnt-need-another-quiet-day-2920079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">me too,\u003c/a>” posted as a hashtag or Facebook status, did the usual digital-activism work of intensely personalizing a social and political issue that many could otherwise dismiss as “not my problem.” As some men posted, and some women of color argued, it takes a certain amount of privilege to feel safe enough to make even a two-word disclosure like this one. Questions about race and gender arose that necessarily complicate rapid-fire political discourses. Yet “me too” has approached a certain critical mass; the hashtag had been used 200,000 times as of Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a meme, “me too” does a great job of crystallizing the rage and vulnerability women feel in the face of rape culture. This conversation, however, is hardly new. Artists, activists, writers and musicians have told the stories of violated women across time — particularly since the 1990s, when popular music and feminism powerfully intersected in the pop mainstream and the musical underground. Here’s a list of twenty songs in which women said “me too” — without shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tori Amos, “Me And A Gun” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4KjmFMtiywPXyr6CbLOhY3\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stark, semi-autobiographical monologue, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15182176/tori-amos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amos\u003c/a> wrote to be performed a capella, takes the listener within the mind of a woman being raped – and is based on details of the singer-songwriter’s own assault after a show when she was 21. The emotional centerpiece of her solo debut album \u003cem>Little Earthquakes\u003c/em>, it remains one of pop’s most intimate and forthright accounts of how women experience sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TLC, “His Story” (1992)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3naqVKAWQJyghdX9VzYEJA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘His Story’ was happening before we were born,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15807876/tlc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TLC\u003c/a> member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas said in a recent interview, addressing this song’s theme of society’s tendency to accept the male viewpoint on sexual assault, even in the most dubious circumstances. A protest song in the guise of a funk jam, TLC’s invective has been somewhat forgotten, perhaps because it was inspired by and mentioned the highly controversial \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tawana Brawley\u003c/a> case of 1987; its big-picture take still resonates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Au Pairs, “Armagh” (1981)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5OqNaCBBU7qK5TeUzREhx1\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexual assault is always political, and sometimes it’s actually a tool of the state. The post-punk band Au Pairs – part of a vibrant feminist scene that arose in Northern England at the turn of the ’80s – made that reality explicit in this song, about female Irish Republican prisoners who were repeatedly strip-searched and reportedly violated as part of the daily routine in the Northern Irish prison of the song’s title. The women of Armagh conducted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theirisharchives.com/articles/view/97/The-Women-Hunger-Strikers-Of-Armagh-Prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“dirty protest”\u003c/a> to call attention to their plight; this song captures its disgust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liz Phair, “F*** and Run” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4MSdFtD1JPc2W3J13uJPeS\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15402643/liz-phair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phair\u003c/a>‘s album-length rejoinder to carelessly sexist indie rockers, \u003cem>Exile in Guyville\u003c/em>, is one of the finest accounts of all the crap that women put up with within music scenes. This deceptively wry ballad about one-night-stand Johnnies contains a shocking line — “even when I was twelve,” Phair sang, recalling all the times men enjoyed her body and then left her behind — that connects everyday, callous treatment to the larger culture of abuse that women must navigate, starting when they are girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bikini Kill, “Liar” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i1aycS7_P-M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i1aycS7_P-M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The early ’90s Riot Grrrl movement brought the realities of rape culture into stark focus within an indie rock community that often presented itself as above “all that.” Kathleen Hanna, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/106311747/bikini-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a>‘s vocalist and visionary, was the Cassandra who demanded that the men around her acknowledge that they, too, were part of the mass deceit that allows male perpetrators to “deny, deny, deny, deny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fiona Apple, “Sullen Girl” (1996)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6cVxGzo7214XabSXFGasNl\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of sexual assault often, perhaps nearly always, last a lifetime. At 17, in this blunt, introspective, beautiful piano ballad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15183593/fiona-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiona Apple\u003c/a> revealed the aftermath of her rape at age 12. “My oblivion,” she called it, resurrecting herself through sheer grit and musicality, and guiding others to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Raincoats, “Off Duty Trip” (1979)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6hsh2tGBNL5WlaQLrD61P7\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rape culture is supported by a criminal justice system that can seem inclined towards preserving male power. (The recent case of Brock Turner, the Stanford student whose sentence was reduced by a judge concerned about its \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/02/the-judge-in-the-infamous-brock-turner-case-finally-explains-his-decision-a-year-later/?utm_term=.afbf2b168bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact on his future\u003c/a>, is illustrative.) Post-punk greats \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/539037321/the-raincoats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Raincoats\u003c/a> refer in this song to a much-publicized rape trial in which a British Army officer received lenient treatment from a judge concerned about his military standing, and contextualizes that outrage within a larger view of women’s objectification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rihanna, “Man Down” (2010)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/454h9zAIuTe1eJyw9iTnj4\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Barbadian queen of international pop has often alluded to sexualized violence in her songs, partly because of her own history, which includes surviving domestic assault by her then-boyfriend, the singer Chris Brown. This song takes on rape directly, and can be heard as a revenge fantasy aimed at the fiercely patriarchal culture of the Caribbean dancehall music it mines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>War On Women, “Say It” (2015)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0eta41JkL9xjzWxiPtuMEQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain environments where male bonding is prioritized — fraternities, for example, or perhaps summer rock festivals — have proven particularly conducive to men who violate women. This past summer, the Baltimore band War On Women brought this demand to disrupt such enclaves to Warped Tour, and, perhaps predictably,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.popsugar.com/news/How-Women-Warped-Tour-Pushing-Back-Against-Sexual-Harassment-43727311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endured a backlash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah McLachlan, “Possession” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/28SynOAuafgfxvPXWFgS7D\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stalking – the relentless invasion of a woman’s space and privacy – is a major aspect of the culture of misogyny. In one of her most resonant and popular songs, Lilith Fair co-founder \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15397450/sarah-mclachlan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah McLachlan\u003c/a> claimed power over a fan who’d stalked her by imagining herself in his position, a chancy move that allowed her some sense of power. Though, she said, the experience had forced her to live with the constant fear that she \u003ca href=\"http://www.addictedtosongwriting.com/sarah-mclachlan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">might be raped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rhiannon Giddens, “At the Purchaser’s Option” (2017)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5RmAtT0VaKttU0Eybo6ZWA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The #metoo hashtag rivets us because it feels urgent and new. But sexual assault is embedded in American culture, especially within the poison legacy of slavery. Newly minted MacArthur Foundation Genius \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/384980773/rhiannon-giddens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhiannon Giddens\u003c/a> brings listeners right into the bloodied heart of one enslaved woman impregnated by her rapist, whose resilience defied history itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eve, “Love is Blind” (1999)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0H2jfzzREOr9MF95HB7ry6\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of love,” Eve asked in this song dedicated to a friend who’d been killed by her boyfriend, “make you wish he would die?” The cycle of domestic violence included rape, and the rap royal included it as part of this cry for justice, which ends in a scenario of revenge. “Love is Blind” is a swaggering achievement that stands against hip-hop’s longstanding practice of \u003ca href=\"http://uproxx.com/webculture/50-absurd-rape-lyrics/\">making light\u003c/a> of sexual assault and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Otep, “Fillthee” (2001)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0AWMwRNXNc0bX2sPLWrxX7\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmospheres in which violence can be mounted against women are often aggressively male. Extreme heavy metal is, notoriously, a dude’s paradise; Otep Shamaya is one of the few women who has found stardom within it. From the start of her career, as in this song confronting the shame a rape victim feels, she has demanded that her peers acknowledge the ways in which they quash the feminine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amy Grant, “Ask Me” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5rLGbtNvUB8nqyUNTRC5n9\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All too often, women have been taught to blame themselves for their own victimization. Sometimes religion has enforced this self-condemnation. Amy Grant, one of contemporary Christian music’s superstars, turns this shame around by telling the story of a sexually abused child in poignant detail before celebrating the girl’s redemption as a grown woman. Grant puts mercy before patriarchal judgment in her version of being born again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gillian Welch, “Caleb Meyer” (1998)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/170BlLwmzfaW7hlKCl24sb\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder ballad is a Euro-American traditional song form that forms one of the foundations of folk music. Through its many tales of lone male wolves strangling women or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvXteZkByE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing them into rivers\u003c/a>, it also normalizes misogyny. 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As the rats moved from one corner to another, the pitch and volume would change and create these odd harmonies. I was able to record not just the sound, but a digital conversion of the voltage, which proved the most useful. ‘Redlining,’ a piece for a Disklavier player piano (a self-playing piano that takes incoming MIDI data from a computer), is one of the products of that rat theremin performance/experiment. Using the rat movements as rhythmic data and a rough pitch contour, I began the process of editing together my favorite sections and conforming the note data to a scale. I wanted the tone to be emotionally ambivalent, in parallel with the narration. I wanted the viewer/listener to project their own feeling from their reactions to the content Theo was presenting. The music couldn’t be too steering or it would take away from the experience. This ideology was used throughout the film but I tried to most strongly apply it with this track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Deacon positions a plexiglass case used to hold rats for the 'Rat Film' score.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Deacon positions a plexiglass case used to hold rats for the ‘Rat Film’ score. \u003ccite>(Domino Recording Co./Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Horn Phase”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the first pieces I wrote after seeing some raw, initial footage from Theo. The slow panning Google Earth footage of Baltimore thought of as a ‘video game’ was really disturbing to me. Sitting so heavy in the uncanny valley, I used the images’ unrealness as inspiration for a hanging, never settling or resolving sextet of synthetic brass. It made me really happy when Theo paired the piece with those images.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Pelican”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Pelican’ is the exact opposite of ‘Horn Phase’ and the piece that came with the most input from Theo. It needed the feeling of falling back into your chair with an all-too familiar disbelief, like a musical shaking of your head in disappointment. But it needed to be light and airy, laid back and calm. The brilliant guitarist Steve Strohmeier came in and improvised over a loose structure for a few hours, leaving me with a vast collection of perfect riffs to assemble into a small ensemble of somber guitars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Will and Greg Kearney go rat fishing in East Baltimore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore..jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will and Greg Kearney go rat fishing in East Baltimore. \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“OCME”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘OCME’ was the result of a mistake turned into a blessing at the end of an extremely long and trying day. Theo was over at my studio and we struggled with finding anything either of us felt happy with for this section. I was accidentally moving the MIDI data from the rat-theremin performance and dropped it into a synth-patch channel and all of a sudden these eerie, singing-saw-like sounds began coming out. It was a real ghost in the machine moment that I would never have planned if I tried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Harold”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Some of the first footage I saw — and one of the only sections I wrote to picture — was the introduction of [a man named] Harold and the Baltimore City Rat Rub Out team playing ping pong. I wanted something that complimented the ping pong sounds and the rat brain clicks that color the sound design at cut points. Growing up, my parents owned and operated a small, two-person pest control company. Harold’s viewpoints and outlook on life come across as very similar to that of my parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore resident Harold Edmond in Theo Anthony's 'Rat Film'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811650\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baltimore resident Harold Edmond in Theo Anthony’s ‘Rat Film’ \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Reed Clouds”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Reed Clouds,’ a processed layering of several improvisations by one of my favorite musicians, Andrew Bernstein, was recorded in a large pantry off the kitchen in my apartment that I converted into an isolation booth. Bernie was over for a session to do some takes on another large project I was working on simultaneously. I asked him to improvise free, then to improvise over some loops I prepared. Afterwards, with all the various takes, I began altering and editing them into what I wanted to sound like a cloud or haze. As it was early on in the process, I sent it to Theo with no notes on placement and it lived in a few spots before eventually finding its home being paired with the pops of the rat brain and the images of driving through Baltimore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Seagull”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“For ‘Seagull,’ I recorded cellist Owen Gardner in a similar fashion to the way I recorded Bernie for ‘Reed Clouds.’ A series of improvisations, first free and then directed, ‘Seagull’ is a layering of Owen’s masterful playing of a series of ‘seagull glissandi,’ a technique which yields a beautiful cycling of artificial harmonics. I asked him to play these seagull glisses for an extremely long time (mostly for my own pleasure). After the session, I watched some of the footage Theo had sent over and got inspired to focus on these seagull glisses. I slowed and pitched them down, layered them and applied a series of effects. (I’m now just realizing the other project I was working on also has a song called ‘Seagull’).”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Calhoun”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Calhoun’ is a variation of ‘Redlining’ with a different voicing realized using vibraphone samples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A mass of baby rats featured in 'Rat Film.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d.jpg 1917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mass of baby rats featured in ‘Rat Film.’ \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Rat Poison”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“After watching the raw material Theo gave me, I learned so many details about rampant systematic institutional racism the city and JHU [John’s Hopkins University] have been imposing for decades. It felt like a dreary, sickening haze imagining the boardroom conversations where people justified and normalized their practices. Using that reaction, I also tried to focus on the surface-level subject matter, the actual rat poison. Working towards a drugged-out, hazy feeling, I experimented with chords on a pillowy synth as the framework and then applied some rat Theremin data to a woodwind synth patch for the melodic content towards the end of the piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Video Game”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Video Game’ is perhaps the first piece I wrote for the score after watching the Google footage of Baltimore and hearing the initial narration Theo has in place about the video game. I really like how digitally corroded the images were, where the streets are growing up into the wheel wells of cars like asphalt weeds, the trees morphing together with the bricks of the row homes. It was a horrifying set of images and I wanted overly synthetic sounds to pair with the corrosion I was seeing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Fouse, also known as the Rat Czar, shows off his collection of weapons that he uses to hunt for rats in his Baltimore backyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-1920x1079.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Fouse, also known as the Rat Czar, shows off his collection of weapons that he uses to hunt for rats in his Baltimore backyard. \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Harold’s Lament”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Harold’s Lament’ is another piece for cello performed by Owen Gardner. One of my favorite parts of this recording is the sound of the creaking Ikea chair Owen was sitting on that I grabbed from my kitchen for the session. Beyond Owen’s extended technique for kitchen chair, the piece is a structured improvisation, asking him to focus on extended techniques and effects, slowly drifting into a series of audio effects, and then layered with various other sections of the take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Map Overlays”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Map Overlays’ is a companion piece to ‘Redlining.’ Another piece of player piano, sculpted from the rat performance session (which, I should note, is seen throughout the film). For a great deal of the rat performance, the rats huddled up into a corner and sat still, leaving the Theremins droning with only very slight variation. At times during the recording, it seemed like the bulk of the experiment was a failure. But after getting the data and seeing these slight variations I found them really inspiring to work with. I applied the sections of stillness to a single note on the piano and octave, and layering of the note would change whenever there was a fluctuation in their small, huddled movements. I really enjoyed the effect and I don’t think I would have scored the section the same without it. We really had no idea what to expect from the rats and the Theremins. In hindsight, I couldn’t be happier with the result of that experiment. Not only for the music it helped create and inspire but because it marked the start of an extremely rewarding collaboration and, more importantly, a strong friendship with Theo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Eagle Warrior, celebrated musician and member of the Lenape Indian Nation, plays the flute in his living room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811651\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Eagle Warrior, celebrated musician and member of the Lenape Indian Nation, plays the flute in his living room. \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel so lucky to have worked on this film with such a thoughtful and brilliant artist. Towards the end of the process, working together side-by-side in my studio was some of the most fun I had that summer. Everything about this process seemed open to experimentation, new directions, recontextualization. Nothing was precious, yet every idea was important and worth exploring to its fullest. I can’t thank Theo enough for entrusting me with the task of scoring this film.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Dan+Deacon+Collaborated+With+Rats+To+Make+His+Latest+Film+Score&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s not unusual for film composers to make music out of organic sounds found in or related to the movie. Take Nathan Johnson’s stunning \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/162734982/looper-a-world-of-musical-clicks-and-pops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Looper \u003c/em>score\u003c/a> which was built on a foundation of sampled clicks and pops that captured the film’s steampunk creakiness. Or, more elementally, the typewriter rhythms Mark Mothersbaugh used for his \u003cem>Royal Tenenbaums\u003c/em> score, emulating the film’s anachronistic storytelling themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>Rat Film, \u003c/em>a new documentary that explores Baltimore’s complicated history (as told through the city’s rat infestation), electronic artist Dan Deacon developed an elaborate system to get the rats themselves to make the music. Let’s just say \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsJ9NrUtGik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it’s technical\u003c/a>. But in this track-by-track breakdown, he explains just how he did it, the challenges of making music that’s simultaneously uplifting and moody, and how he navigated seeming failure and happy accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>“Redlining”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/5DvVMuDY6A8md1iv26XgMv\" align=\"right\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the onset of the project, [director] Theo [Anthony] asked me if I could make music with rats. After some thought, my brain landed on the concept of an enclosure made out of theremins (one of the first electronic instruments ever invented and played by hand gestures). As the rats moved from one corner to another, the pitch and volume would change and create these odd harmonies. I was able to record not just the sound, but a digital conversion of the voltage, which proved the most useful. ‘Redlining,’ a piece for a Disklavier player piano (a self-playing piano that takes incoming MIDI data from a computer), is one of the products of that rat theremin performance/experiment. Using the rat movements as rhythmic data and a rough pitch contour, I began the process of editing together my favorite sections and conforming the note data to a scale. I wanted the tone to be emotionally ambivalent, in parallel with the narration. I wanted the viewer/listener to project their own feeling from their reactions to the content Theo was presenting. The music couldn’t be too steering or it would take away from the experience. This ideology was used throughout the film but I tried to most strongly apply it with this track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Deacon positions a plexiglass case used to hold rats for the 'Rat Film' score.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Deacon-box.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Deacon positions a plexiglass case used to hold rats for the ‘Rat Film’ score. \u003ccite>(Domino Recording Co./Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Horn Phase”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the first pieces I wrote after seeing some raw, initial footage from Theo. The slow panning Google Earth footage of Baltimore thought of as a ‘video game’ was really disturbing to me. Sitting so heavy in the uncanny valley, I used the images’ unrealness as inspiration for a hanging, never settling or resolving sextet of synthetic brass. It made me really happy when Theo paired the piece with those images.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Pelican”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Pelican’ is the exact opposite of ‘Horn Phase’ and the piece that came with the most input from Theo. It needed the feeling of falling back into your chair with an all-too familiar disbelief, like a musical shaking of your head in disappointment. But it needed to be light and airy, laid back and calm. The brilliant guitarist Steve Strohmeier came in and improvised over a loose structure for a few hours, leaving me with a vast collection of perfect riffs to assemble into a small ensemble of somber guitars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Will and Greg Kearney go rat fishing in East Baltimore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore.-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Will-and-Greg-Kearney-go-rat-fishing-in-East-Baltimore..jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will and Greg Kearney go rat fishing in East Baltimore. \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“OCME”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘OCME’ was the result of a mistake turned into a blessing at the end of an extremely long and trying day. Theo was over at my studio and we struggled with finding anything either of us felt happy with for this section. I was accidentally moving the MIDI data from the rat-theremin performance and dropped it into a synth-patch channel and all of a sudden these eerie, singing-saw-like sounds began coming out. It was a real ghost in the machine moment that I would never have planned if I tried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Harold”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Some of the first footage I saw — and one of the only sections I wrote to picture — was the introduction of [a man named] Harold and the Baltimore City Rat Rub Out team playing ping pong. I wanted something that complimented the ping pong sounds and the rat brain clicks that color the sound design at cut points. Growing up, my parents owned and operated a small, two-person pest control company. Harold’s viewpoints and outlook on life come across as very similar to that of my parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore resident Harold Edmond in Theo Anthony's 'Rat Film'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811650\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Baltimore-rats.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baltimore resident Harold Edmond in Theo Anthony’s ‘Rat Film’ \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Reed Clouds”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Reed Clouds,’ a processed layering of several improvisations by one of my favorite musicians, Andrew Bernstein, was recorded in a large pantry off the kitchen in my apartment that I converted into an isolation booth. Bernie was over for a session to do some takes on another large project I was working on simultaneously. I asked him to improvise free, then to improvise over some loops I prepared. Afterwards, with all the various takes, I began altering and editing them into what I wanted to sound like a cloud or haze. As it was early on in the process, I sent it to Theo with no notes on placement and it lived in a few spots before eventually finding its home being paired with the pops of the rat brain and the images of driving through Baltimore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Seagull”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“For ‘Seagull,’ I recorded cellist Owen Gardner in a similar fashion to the way I recorded Bernie for ‘Reed Clouds.’ A series of improvisations, first free and then directed, ‘Seagull’ is a layering of Owen’s masterful playing of a series of ‘seagull glissandi,’ a technique which yields a beautiful cycling of artificial harmonics. I asked him to play these seagull glisses for an extremely long time (mostly for my own pleasure). After the session, I watched some of the footage Theo had sent over and got inspired to focus on these seagull glisses. I slowed and pitched them down, layered them and applied a series of effects. (I’m now just realizing the other project I was working on also has a song called ‘Seagull’).”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Calhoun”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Calhoun’ is a variation of ‘Redlining’ with a different voicing realized using vibraphone samples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A mass of baby rats featured in 'Rat Film.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/06-f193c12a7ab04e559157b909d57c5d3e30e0c15d.jpg 1917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mass of baby rats featured in ‘Rat Film.’ \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Rat Poison”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“After watching the raw material Theo gave me, I learned so many details about rampant systematic institutional racism the city and JHU [John’s Hopkins University] have been imposing for decades. It felt like a dreary, sickening haze imagining the boardroom conversations where people justified and normalized their practices. Using that reaction, I also tried to focus on the surface-level subject matter, the actual rat poison. Working towards a drugged-out, hazy feeling, I experimented with chords on a pillowy synth as the framework and then applied some rat Theremin data to a woodwind synth patch for the melodic content towards the end of the piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Video Game”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Video Game’ is perhaps the first piece I wrote for the score after watching the Google footage of Baltimore and hearing the initial narration Theo has in place about the video game. I really like how digitally corroded the images were, where the streets are growing up into the wheel wells of cars like asphalt weeds, the trees morphing together with the bricks of the row homes. It was a horrifying set of images and I wanted overly synthetic sounds to pair with the corrosion I was seeing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Fouse, also known as the Rat Czar, shows off his collection of weapons that he uses to hunt for rats in his Baltimore backyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-1920x1079.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/05_wide-0adf7d91eac46275ed368b583e93d5ec002ff7a6-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Fouse, also known as the Rat Czar, shows off his collection of weapons that he uses to hunt for rats in his Baltimore backyard. \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Harold’s Lament”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Harold’s Lament’ is another piece for cello performed by Owen Gardner. One of my favorite parts of this recording is the sound of the creaking Ikea chair Owen was sitting on that I grabbed from my kitchen for the session. Beyond Owen’s extended technique for kitchen chair, the piece is a structured improvisation, asking him to focus on extended techniques and effects, slowly drifting into a series of audio effects, and then layered with various other sections of the take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Map Overlays”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“‘Map Overlays’ is a companion piece to ‘Redlining.’ Another piece of player piano, sculpted from the rat performance session (which, I should note, is seen throughout the film). For a great deal of the rat performance, the rats huddled up into a corner and sat still, leaving the Theremins droning with only very slight variation. At times during the recording, it seemed like the bulk of the experiment was a failure. But after getting the data and seeing these slight variations I found them really inspiring to work with. I applied the sections of stillness to a single note on the piano and octave, and layering of the note would change whenever there was a fluctuation in their small, huddled movements. I really enjoyed the effect and I don’t think I would have scored the section the same without it. We really had no idea what to expect from the rats and the Theremins. In hindsight, I couldn’t be happier with the result of that experiment. Not only for the music it helped create and inspire but because it marked the start of an extremely rewarding collaboration and, more importantly, a strong friendship with Theo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Eagle Warrior, celebrated musician and member of the Lenape Indian Nation, plays the flute in his living room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811651\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Rat-King.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Eagle Warrior, celebrated musician and member of the Lenape Indian Nation, plays the flute in his living room. \u003ccite>(MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel so lucky to have worked on this film with such a thoughtful and brilliant artist. Towards the end of the process, working together side-by-side in my studio was some of the most fun I had that summer. Everything about this process seemed open to experimentation, new directions, recontextualization. Nothing was precious, yet every idea was important and worth exploring to its fullest. I can’t thank Theo enough for entrusting me with the task of scoring this film.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Dan+Deacon+Collaborated+With+Rats+To+Make+His+Latest+Film+Score&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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