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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why am I bringing this all up 14 years later? Because Justin is bringing it up 14 years later. In\u003ca href=\"http://www.breatheheavy.com/justin-timberlake-covers-vanity-fair-italia/\"> a new Vanity Fair cover story\u003c/a>, he said this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the past, suffering helped me to compose. ‘Cry Me a River’ was written in a moment of pain, and the whole world knew.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Suffering? Really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/567d6ea5-5242-4be9-8369-842e29657b4d.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/567d6ea5-5242-4be9-8369-842e29657b4d.gif\" alt=\"ross friends down hands gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, breakups suck, Justin, but have at least a modicum of chill. And why did the whole world know? Because you made sure we did by bringing it up in every interview, in several songs, and in a music video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin's brand is getting away with sh*t. Let us count the ways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got away with:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>slut-shaming Britney, while playing the victim.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>what he did to Janet.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>getting way too much praise for being a mediocre actor and \"comedian.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>going #1 with his insufferable new single, which is a blatant rip-off of Pharrell's \"Happy.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>profiting off of black culture and then preaching All Lives Matter BS.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You get the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After much struggle, Britney has moved on. Janet has moved on. Now it's Justin's turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/pvz736wo5710e535233fe957237487.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/pvz736wo5710e535233fe957237487.gif\" alt=\"let it go gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn more about how troubling Nipplegate really was, read this:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED's weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267073903&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9T5qpr0ZQKq80mDA6hSi2d78wxNU59FN\"]Solange Knowles is known for many things: sharing genetics with Beyoncé, being a great musician in her own right (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk\">start here\u003c/a>), starring in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_It_On:_All_or_Nothing\">a \u003cem>Bring It On\u003c/em> sequel\u003c/a> with Hayden Panettiere that I have yet to see but probably should, throwing \u003ca href=\"http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Solange-Wedding-3.jpg\">the most aesthetically mind-blowing wedding ever,\u003c/a> exacting \u003ca href=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/754/892/250.gif\">\u003cem>Mortal Kombat\u003c/em>-style revenge \u003c/a>on her sister's trifling husband, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else that should be added to this list of achievements: having her Snapchat content displayed on the walls of a museum. Under the account name nappyandsnappy, Solange elevates a social media platform known for being a black hole of flower crown selfies into an ephemeral modern art gallery, subverting the notion that social media is inherently frivolous or meaningless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Findings from \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/cmsData/img/V-14.jpg\">a National Endowment for the Arts study\u003c/a> reveal a marked decline in museum attendance among people between the ages of 18 and 34. \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160413005960/en/Study-U.S.-Millennials-Prefer-Instagram-Museums-Purchase\">Another study\u003c/a> found that Millennials prefer Instagram and Pinterest to museums and galleries for discovering art. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/artsspecial/museums-turn-to-technology-to-boost-attendance-by-millennials.html?_r=0\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> says\u003c/a> there is concern in the art world that young people aren't into experiencing art in a traditional way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Curators worry most about millennials. How do static galleries of canvas and artifact engage a generation raised on the reactive pleasures of right swipes and hyperlinks? How do you sell Goya when “Game of Thrones” is a click away?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \"kids just don't care about art these days\" refrain is a myth. Millennials love meaningful expression just like all the generations that came before; we're just a little more open to redefining what we consider art, where that art exists and who we accept as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So back to Solange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a 24-hour period goes by and I realize I've forgotten to check in with her, perhaps missing a few of her videos or images, that '90s feeling of having missed the airing of a favorite TV show comes flooding back. The difference is that at least back then you could catch the missed episode during summer reruns. If you blink and miss a Solange Snap, you're just out of luck. You've played yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you suggest that I'm being a bit hyperbolic about the power and importance of Solange's Snapchat, here's proof that I'm not alone in feeling a spiritual connection with it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/delafro_/status/730939196626616321\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/coolstina/status/755980238463479809\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ttiatr/status/750529419878424576\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abbeykate/status/756651549963776000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mercishukri/status/730207747975872512\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/fijiwatergod/status/729050632158519296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might be wondering: \u003cem>What kind of things does she post?\u003c/em> Glad you asked 'cause I screen grab or write down every inspiring, beautiful thing that happens. Here are a few favorites:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange creates a couture gown out of a plastic dry cleaning bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33246\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat dry cleaning\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff.png 950w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange caresses a rainbow while listening to Joni Mitchell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33244\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM-400x714.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat rainbow\" width=\"400\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM-400x714.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM.png 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange films \"molecules\" dancing in a cup of tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.24-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.24-PM.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat molecules\" width=\"336\" height=\"595\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange transforms just another concrete walkway into a Rothko installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0488\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange conducts a zoom study on color and stamens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1226\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange investigates the idea that there might be multiple versions of us living out the consequences of every decision we didn't make in parallel universes. Also investigates looking fine in a full-length mirror and the aesthetic value of flash photography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33304\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1241\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange meditates on the idea that light is actually just waves of electromagnetic radiation. Or maybe just meditates on how awesome the lamp selection at Target is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0491\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Celestial emojis: the new paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33293\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM-400x718.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.01.30 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM-400x718.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM.png 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Can a skirt be art? You better believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM-400x710.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.01.00 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM.png 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Botticelli's \u003ca href=\"http://t.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/drawing/1920x1200/Birth_of_venus.jpg\">\u003cem>The Birth of Venus\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33298\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0489\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Pocket couture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM-400x709.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.02.36 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM-400x709.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM.png 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Materials: the reflection, refraction and dispersion of light. Canvas: face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33301\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0515\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Sometimes we end up with the wrong person. Sometimes a door doesn't fit its door frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1127\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">New Orleans' Red Dress Run in honor of breast cancer research or an art collective flash mob that hopes to raise awareness around the fact that the red in your Starbucks strawberry frappuccino comes from dead bugs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33305\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1281\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Every artist has a muse. On this night, Solange's was her empty stomach and a burger somewhere out there, beneath the pale moon light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33283\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM-400x714.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat burger\" width=\"400\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM-400x714.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM-400x711.png\" alt=\"solange burger snapchat\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM-400x711.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM.png 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">You are who you ride shotgun with. Solange is Erykah Badu. Erykah Badu is Solange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM-400x713.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.02.16 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM-400x713.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM.png 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All artistic genius and no play would make anyone a dull Snapchatter, so Solange finds ways to let loose and have some fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Like the time she raided her friend's closet and tried everything on while she was out on a date:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694-400x614.jpg\" alt=\"3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694-400x614.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432-400x603.jpg\" alt=\"3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432\" width=\"400\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432-400x603.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33243\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM-400x710.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat closet\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM.png 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b12mEvIlQAM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Or that time she snuck up on Bey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJKE0nyQonk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Or that time she celebrated getting a babysitter by going to the orchestra and making her hand dance in the wind out of a car window:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRgucIWYNWA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Or the time she got estranged mama Tina and papa Matthew together to rep for Houston:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2J_TnwOcI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly because we don't get to keep all the things we love in life, and partly because sometimes my screenshot fingers are too damn slow, some Solange Snapchat moments will only live on within this minimalist bulleted list:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Solange captures slo-mo droplets of water falling into a bathtub.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange catches light with fingertips dipped in glitter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Slo-mo Solange runs backwards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange flickers a light, while making a regal pose.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange holds a history lesson on the culture that's come out of her native Third Ward neighborhood in Houston.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange listens to Madonna's \"Take a Bow\" while driving.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange watches \u003cem>Pocahontas\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>I could easily go on, but I don't need to. After taking this all in, Solange is already artist-in-residence in your heart by now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those gushing tweets from before don't seem so crazy anymore, do they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For even more Solange thoughts and feelings, get a load of this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267073903&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might be wondering: \u003cem>What kind of things does she post?\u003c/em> Glad you asked 'cause I screen grab or write down every inspiring, beautiful thing that happens. Here are a few favorites:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange creates a couture gown out of a plastic dry cleaning bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33246\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat dry cleaning\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff.png 950w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/20162F062F072F442FScreen_Shot_20160606_at_5.58.15_PM.e51ff-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange caresses a rainbow while listening to Joni Mitchell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33244\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM-400x714.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat rainbow\" width=\"400\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM-400x714.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.54.22-PM.png 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange films \"molecules\" dancing in a cup of tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.24-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.24-PM.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat molecules\" width=\"336\" height=\"595\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange transforms just another concrete walkway into a Rothko installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0488\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0488.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange conducts a zoom study on color and stamens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1226\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1226.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange investigates the idea that there might be multiple versions of us living out the consequences of every decision we didn't make in parallel universes. Also investigates looking fine in a full-length mirror and the aesthetic value of flash photography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33304\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1241\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1241.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Solange meditates on the idea that light is actually just waves of electromagnetic radiation. Or maybe just meditates on how awesome the lamp selection at Target is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0491\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0491.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Celestial emojis: the new paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33293\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM-400x718.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.01.30 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM-400x718.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.30-PM.png 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Can a skirt be art? You better believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM-400x710.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.01.00 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.01.00-PM.png 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Botticelli's \u003ca href=\"http://t.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/drawing/1920x1200/Birth_of_venus.jpg\">\u003cem>The Birth of Venus\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33298\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0489\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0489.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Pocket couture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM-400x709.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.02.36 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM-400x709.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.36-PM.png 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Materials: the reflection, refraction and dispersion of light. Canvas: face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33301\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_0515\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_0515.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Sometimes we end up with the wrong person. Sometimes a door doesn't fit its door frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1127\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1127.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">New Orleans' Red Dress Run in honor of breast cancer research or an art collective flash mob that hopes to raise awareness around the fact that the red in your Starbucks strawberry frappuccino comes from dead bugs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33305\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281-400x710.png\" alt=\"IMG_1281\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/IMG_1281.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Every artist has a muse. On this night, Solange's was her empty stomach and a burger somewhere out there, beneath the pale moon light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33283\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM-400x714.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat burger\" width=\"400\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM-400x714.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.54-PM.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM-400x711.png\" alt=\"solange burger snapchat\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM-400x711.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.03.04-PM.png 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">You are who you ride shotgun with. Solange is Erykah Badu. Erykah Badu is Solange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM-400x713.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-12 at 5.02.16 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM-400x713.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-5.02.16-PM.png 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All artistic genius and no play would make anyone a dull Snapchatter, so Solange finds ways to let loose and have some fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Like the time she raided her friend's closet and tried everything on while she was out on a date:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694-400x614.jpg\" alt=\"3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694-400x614.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675461500000578-3702089-image-m-109_1469134618694.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432-400x603.jpg\" alt=\"3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432\" width=\"400\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432-400x603.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/3675463E00000578-3702089-_Date_night_for_meeeeeee_tooooo_The_mother_of_two_took_some_time-m-111_1469134652432.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33243\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM-400x710.png\" alt=\"solange snapchat closet\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM-400x710.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-12-at-4.45.40-PM.png 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\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/b12mEvIlQAM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/b12mEvIlQAM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Or that time she snuck up on Bey.\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/YJKE0nyQonk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YJKE0nyQonk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Or that time she celebrated getting a babysitter by going to the orchestra and making her hand dance in the wind out of a car window:\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 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love in life, and partly because sometimes my screenshot fingers are too damn slow, some Solange Snapchat moments will only live on within this minimalist bulleted list:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Solange captures slo-mo droplets of water falling into a bathtub.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange catches light with fingertips dipped in glitter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Slo-mo Solange runs backwards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange flickers a light, while making a regal pose.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange holds a history lesson on the culture that's come out of her native Third Ward neighborhood in Houston.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange listens to Madonna's \"Take a Bow\" while driving.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solange watches \u003cem>Pocahontas\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>I could easily go on, but I don't need to. After taking this all in, Solange is already artist-in-residence in your heart by now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those gushing tweets from before don't seem so crazy anymore, do they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For even more Solange thoughts and feelings, get a load of this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267073903&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In September 1993, the rapper then-known as Snoop Doggy Dogg was in the middle of what would prove to be the most fraught and controversial month of his entire career. He'd been \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1993-09-04/local/me-31460_1_rap-singer-snoop-doggy-dogg\">charged with murder\u003c/a>, and only turned himself in to the cops after he'd had the chance to award the Best R&B Video moonman to En Vogue at that year's VMAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snoop was still up-and-coming at the time and to miss that prominent MTV spotlight, alongside his friend Dr. Dre, would've cost him some serious prime-time exposure. Legend has it, he drove to the police station to hand himself in directly from the award show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hIjgofcuWU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a tightly wound white lady by the name of Martha Stewart also found her public profile expanding. September 1993 was when her first TV show (named after her then-quarterly magazine) launched; little did she know that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tv.com/shows/martha-stewart-living/\">\u003cem>Martha Stewart Living\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was just the start of a multi-million dollar empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1990s, the idea that Snoop and Martha would ever so much as be in the same room as each other was utterly laughable. 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Given that most of the people who liked her brand pre-jail-time declared her career over as soon as she was convicted, Stewart did the smartest thing she could: Post-release, she started juxtaposing her squeaky clean WASP image of old with a very palpable edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snoop is not the kind of guest Martha Stewart could invite onto her show before she'd done some time, but a 2008 clip in which Snoop goes rogue on Martha as she's showing him how to make the most fattening mashed potatoes in the world remains a YouTube favorite. By the time the two got back together in 2015, under the guise of making Christmas brownies, the double act was almost entirely centered around \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubH1prBf84\">weed jokes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ocre0kXgvg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year also saw Stewart resorting to joining in on Comedy Central's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3PhXNNMGg\">roast of Justin Bieber\u003c/a>, even though her presence there made absolutely no sense whatsoever. \"Look!\" the joke seemed to be, \"Martha Stewart says mean things too! What a crazy badass!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snoop has, of course, also adapted and changed over the last 20 years, but it feels altogether more organic. The biggest shift for the rapper came 10 years into his career, when he was finally permitted to show the world that he had an endearingly dorky, highly self-aware sense of humor. 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Even with that in mind, he was still one of the best things in the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Snoop's done everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjy-k5mOqA\">GPS voiceover\u003c/a> work to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-OO324clObi3H-U0bP77dw\">GGN radio\u003c/a> show to inventing a new reggae-based persona for himself named \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MI3CKL4NMI\">Snoop Lion\u003c/a>. One gets the impression that Snoop has a hard time saying no to anything; that if something looks like it might be fun for him to do, and that he might make some money out of it, that's an automatic yes. His brand is far from delicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martha Stewart's reasoning for signing on to a cooking show co-hosted by Snoop Dogg looks considerably more contrived. Stewart's whole brand has been under siege for a few years now, thanks to new competition from high-end companies started by a new wave of rich-white-lady homemakers. It's clear she's feeling threatened: she's \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/martha-stewart-gwyneth-paltrow_n_5966142.html\">talked some sh*t\u003c/a> about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/06/deep-breaths-a-dispatch-from-the-gwyneth-paltrow-industrial-complex/\" target=\"_blank\">Goop's Gwyneth Paltrow\u003c/a> several times, when she would be much better off trying to collaborate with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, Martha is having difficulty keeping up her down-with-the-kids image -- which is not surprising when that's not, naturally, who she's ever really been. Stewart's recent \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/martha-stewart-millennials-tomato-plant.html\">outburst about millennials\u003c/a>, in which she labeled an entire generation lazy and stupid doesn't exactly endear her to a younger audience. It's really hard to like someone, even ironically, when they've just said about you: \"They don’t know anything… They know how to make money and how to develop software, but they don’t know how to plant a tree.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Martha Stewart needs this TV show more than Snoop does, because she desperately needs people to like her more right now -- something Snoop's never really had a problem with. Stewart needs to show the world she still has something to offer, and if Snoop's by her side, she knows people will tune in for the odd couple act. Snoop's laid-back presence is just about the only thing on Earth that genuinely makes Martha Stewart seem not so uptight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, this might be a good show. 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(The first episode of \u003cem>Televizzle\u003c/em> put him in a bus full of senior citizens and gave him a microphone.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snoop's non-music profile peaked with the role of Huggy Bear in 2004's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsky_%26_Hutch_(film)\">\u003cem>Starsky & Hutch\u003c/em> \u003c/a>remake -- a role that was probably supposed to be amusing because pre-fame Snoop literally \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/snoop-lion-opens-up-about-his-pimp-past-20130508\">worked as a pimp.\u003c/a> (\u003cem>Hilarious\u003c/em>, obviously.) 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"content": "\u003cp>I love Kate Bush. So much so that I’ve had to consciously make a point of bringing her up less often in conversation. I was turning into a drinking game parody of myself. (Take a swig every time I squawk about how I want to learn the dance from the “Wuthering Heights” music video or how it’s a crime that Kate isn’t as well known as Bowie or how my friend and I filmed a Kate Bush homage in a Virginian forest one winter or how Kate did the impossible in making me think mimes are cool, etc. etc.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my years of randomly bringing her up out of nowhere, I’ve come to learn that an alarming rate of people have no idea who she is, let alone what her music sounds like. “Is she related to George W.?” No. No, she is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear non-believers, I present you with a required crash course in the magic of Kate Bush. Your earbuds and eyeballs can PayPal me later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040.jpeg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32301 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040-400x533.jpeg\" alt=\"kate bush young kid\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040-400x533.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Kate didn’t waste any time being an ordinary, runny-nosed kid. She preferred the prodigy route, teaching herself how to play piano at the age of 11. She also studied violin and would play the organ in her parents’ barn. Because all that musical talent wasn’t enough, she also studied karate and earned the nickname EE-ee (a nod to the squeaky sound she made while chopping and kicking).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the age of 15, Kate was better at networking than you are. She made a demo of 50 songs and used a family connection to get it in the hands of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, which eventually led to a record deal with EMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The label told her they weren't quite ready to launch her career yet, but gave her an advance for the meantime. Instead of blowing it on drugs or cars or lap dances or whatever, she used the money to study interpretive dancing and train as a mime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m9m00otb0o1qgwl1xo1_500.gif\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m9m00otb0o1qgwl1xo1_500.gif\" alt=\"kate bush mime\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all her perfectly bizarre-o music videos are any indication, it was money well spent. From her very first release (1978’s “Wuthering Heights”), interpretive dance is in full effect and dramatics are dialed up to the max.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which inspired fans to assemble en masse and recreate the movements and visuals, almost 40 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jQl_zOKm4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brilliant visuals aside, the song itself, which Bush wrote as a teen, expertly bottles up all the Gothic romance of Emily Bronte’s source material and expands on it. “Wuthering Heights” skyrocketed to #1 on the British charts and stayed there for a month, making history in the process. Kate became the first female artist to have a self-written number one hit in the UK. And the song’s impact endures: “Wuthering Heights” ranked #32 on \u003cem>Q Magazine’\u003c/em>s Top 100 Singles of All Time reader survey. OF ALL TIME!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like with “Wuthering Heights,” Kate doesn’t write about her own life that much, but instead prefers to inhabit a character and act as a conduit for that person’s story. A few examples:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzlofSthVwc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Breathing” is told from the perspective of a fetus whose mother is in the midst of a nuclear fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTkdw4C0XA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Infant Kiss” is about a governess who realizes she might have the hots for one of the kids in her care. Don’t worry; he’s haunted by a sexy older ghost!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Wa0LdCsvM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Dreaming” is about the abuse experienced by the Aborigine in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WP3SG05Uuw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And “Heads We’re Dancing” is about spending all night dancing with a hot dude... who turns out to be Hitler!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other songs deal with James Joyce, \u003cem>The Shining\u003c/em>, Vietnam, Tennyson, Joan of Arc and the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich’s rain-making machine. Basically, Kate will educate you more thoroughly than your high school did. Have you ever wanted to learn 117 decimal points of pi? You're in luck!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhjrfTwT32E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the content and songwriting aren’t the only impressive things about her music. Her vocal range is ridiculous in its vastness:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEtD7fd_7mA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point of the above video is to point out how laudable Kate’s vocal ability is... but also to point out that you should never ever attempt to sing one of her songs at karaoke. I know it might seem like a fun idea, but just don’t. Trust me; I’ve been there and am still reeling from the shame and failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now, you’re getting an idea of how original and groundbreaking Kate’s music is. Her albums have inspired many artists who’ve come in her wake, such as Björk, Tori Amos and Bat for Lashes. But she also has influenced a few musicians that might surprise you, like Tupac, Courtney Love, Prince and Johnny Rotten. Tricky from Massive Attack has said: “I don’t believe in God, but if I did, [Kate Bush’s] music would be my Bible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLaJaEgm3KQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the prize for biggest celebrity fan goes to Outkast’s Big Boi, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2011/11/short-history-big-bois-kate-bush-obsession/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gone on record in multiple interviews\u003c/a> about his love for Kate’s music, a love that goes all the way back to his middle school days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/feb/22/popandrock.outkast\">a 2004 \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> profile\u003c/a>, Big Boi was in the middle of saying “Kate Bush is my favorite artist of all time,” when he was interrupted by his “Babooshka” ringtone. In July 2010, Big Boi told \u003cem>British GQ\u003c/em> about his efforts to track Kate down: “I’ve been trying for some years now. She’s like a kinda recluse. She lives somewhere in a castle around here and plays some sort of oversized piano like the Phantom of the Opera! You can hear music come out the windows! I’m looking for her, know what I’m saying? I’ve come over here to camp out for a month just to find her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Boi apparently spread the Kate Bush love to his band mate Andre 3000, who had this to say: “Kate Bush’s music opened my mind up. She was so bugged-out, man, but I felt her. She’s so f*ckin’ dope, so underrated and so off the radar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s good enough for Outkast, it’s good enough for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also good enough for Mystikal of “Shake Ya Ass” fame, who samples Kate’s “Full House” in “Ain’t Gonna See Tomorrow”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEN5Uo1ljRE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Maxwell, who covered “This Woman's Work”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkeCNeHcmXY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whosampled.com/Kate-Bush/\">And there's a lot more sampling and covering where these came from\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, she had only done one tour in 1979 called The Tour of Life. There were 17 costume changes, a magician, interpretive dancing and the like. And then she stopped touring completely, as if to say, \u003cem>I don’t need your validation. I will release life-changing music on my own schedule whenever I want and you will flake on your friends to stay home and cry to it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A44wwRgzGuw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>35 years after her one and only tour, she returned to the stage for a 22 night residency in London. All dates sold out in under 15 minutes. To many fans’ surprise, she didn’t play anything from her first four albums. Her real talk explanation: “I can’t possibly think of old songs of mine because they’re past now. And quite honestly I don’t like them any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fans have grown accustomed to being patient with Kate’s slow, considered pace. You think waiting for the Frank Ocean album is hard? Try waiting 12 years between 1993’s \u003cem>The Red Shoes\u003c/em> and 2005’s \u003cem>Aerial\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I love Kate Bush. So much so that I’ve had to consciously make a point of bringing her up less often in conversation. I was turning into a drinking game parody of myself. (Take a swig every time I squawk about how I want to learn the dance from the “Wuthering Heights” music video or how it’s a crime that Kate isn’t as well known as Bowie or how my friend and I filmed a Kate Bush homage in a Virginian forest one winter or how Kate did the impossible in making me think mimes are cool, etc. etc.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my years of randomly bringing her up out of nowhere, I’ve come to learn that an alarming rate of people have no idea who she is, let alone what her music sounds like. “Is she related to George W.?” No. No, she is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear non-believers, I present you with a required crash course in the magic of Kate Bush. Your earbuds and eyeballs can PayPal me later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040.jpeg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32301 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040-400x533.jpeg\" alt=\"kate bush young kid\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040-400x533.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/c3b24bb6-65c8-43cb-ae99-b9ab39f73a22-1530x2040.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Kate didn’t waste any time being an ordinary, runny-nosed kid. She preferred the prodigy route, teaching herself how to play piano at the age of 11. She also studied violin and would play the organ in her parents’ barn. Because all that musical talent wasn’t enough, she also studied karate and earned the nickname EE-ee (a nod to the squeaky sound she made while chopping and kicking).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the age of 15, Kate was better at networking than you are. She made a demo of 50 songs and used a family connection to get it in the hands of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, which eventually led to a record deal with EMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The label told her they weren't quite ready to launch her career yet, but gave her an advance for the meantime. Instead of blowing it on drugs or cars or lap dances or whatever, she used the money to study interpretive dancing and train as a mime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m9m00otb0o1qgwl1xo1_500.gif\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m9m00otb0o1qgwl1xo1_500.gif\" alt=\"kate bush mime\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all her perfectly bizarre-o music videos are any indication, it was money well spent. From her very first release (1978’s “Wuthering Heights”), interpretive dance is in full effect and dramatics are dialed up to the max.\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/-1pMMIe4hb4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-1pMMIe4hb4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>All of which inspired fans to assemble en masse and recreate the movements and visuals, almost 40 years later.\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/s8jQl_zOKm4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/s8jQl_zOKm4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Brilliant visuals aside, the song itself, which Bush wrote as a teen, expertly bottles up all the Gothic romance of Emily Bronte’s source material and expands on it. “Wuthering Heights” skyrocketed to #1 on the British charts and stayed there for a month, making history in the process. Kate became the first female artist to have a self-written number one hit in the UK. And the song’s impact endures: “Wuthering Heights” ranked #32 on \u003cem>Q Magazine’\u003c/em>s Top 100 Singles of All Time reader survey. OF ALL TIME!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like with “Wuthering Heights,” Kate doesn’t write about her own life that much, but instead prefers to inhabit a character and act as a conduit for that person’s story. A few examples:\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/VzlofSthVwc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VzlofSthVwc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Breathing” is told from the perspective of a fetus whose mother is in the midst of a nuclear fallout.\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/KUTkdw4C0XA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KUTkdw4C0XA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The Infant Kiss” is about a governess who realizes she might have the hots for one of the kids in her care. Don’t worry; he’s haunted by a sexy older ghost!\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/M2Wa0LdCsvM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/M2Wa0LdCsvM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The Dreaming” is about the abuse experienced by the Aborigine in Australia.\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/6WP3SG05Uuw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6WP3SG05Uuw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And “Heads We’re Dancing” is about spending all night dancing with a hot dude... who turns out to be Hitler!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other songs deal with James Joyce, \u003cem>The Shining\u003c/em>, Vietnam, Tennyson, Joan of Arc and the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich’s rain-making machine. Basically, Kate will educate you more thoroughly than your high school did. Have you ever wanted to learn 117 decimal points of pi? You're in luck!\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/rhjrfTwT32E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/rhjrfTwT32E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And the content and songwriting aren’t the only impressive things about her music. Her vocal range is ridiculous in its vastness:\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/sEtD7fd_7mA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sEtD7fd_7mA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The point of the above video is to point out how laudable Kate’s vocal ability is... but also to point out that you should never ever attempt to sing one of her songs at karaoke. I know it might seem like a fun idea, but just don’t. Trust me; I’ve been there and am still reeling from the shame and failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now, you’re getting an idea of how original and groundbreaking Kate’s music is. Her albums have inspired many artists who’ve come in her wake, such as Björk, Tori Amos and Bat for Lashes. But she also has influenced a few musicians that might surprise you, like Tupac, Courtney Love, Prince and Johnny Rotten. Tricky from Massive Attack has said: “I don’t believe in God, but if I did, [Kate Bush’s] music would be my Bible.”\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/lLaJaEgm3KQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lLaJaEgm3KQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But the prize for biggest celebrity fan goes to Outkast’s Big Boi, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2011/11/short-history-big-bois-kate-bush-obsession/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gone on record in multiple interviews\u003c/a> about his love for Kate’s music, a love that goes all the way back to his middle school days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/feb/22/popandrock.outkast\">a 2004 \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> profile\u003c/a>, Big Boi was in the middle of saying “Kate Bush is my favorite artist of all time,” when he was interrupted by his “Babooshka” ringtone. In July 2010, Big Boi told \u003cem>British GQ\u003c/em> about his efforts to track Kate down: “I’ve been trying for some years now. She’s like a kinda recluse. She lives somewhere in a castle around here and plays some sort of oversized piano like the Phantom of the Opera! You can hear music come out the windows! I’m looking for her, know what I’m saying? I’ve come over here to camp out for a month just to find her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Boi apparently spread the Kate Bush love to his band mate Andre 3000, who had this to say: “Kate Bush’s music opened my mind up. She was so bugged-out, man, but I felt her. She’s so f*ckin’ dope, so underrated and so off the radar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s good enough for Outkast, it’s good enough for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also good enough for Mystikal of “Shake Ya Ass” fame, who samples Kate’s “Full House” in “Ain’t Gonna See Tomorrow”:\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/SEN5Uo1ljRE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SEN5Uo1ljRE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And Maxwell, who covered “This Woman's Work”:\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/gkeCNeHcmXY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gkeCNeHcmXY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whosampled.com/Kate-Bush/\">And there's a lot more sampling and covering where these came from\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, she had only done one tour in 1979 called The Tour of Life. 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To many fans’ surprise, she didn’t play anything from her first four albums. Her real talk explanation: “I can’t possibly think of old songs of mine because they’re past now. And quite honestly I don’t like them any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fans have grown accustomed to being patient with Kate’s slow, considered pace. You think waiting for the Frank Ocean album is hard? Try waiting 12 years between 1993’s \u003cem>The Red Shoes\u003c/em> and 2005’s \u003cem>Aerial\u003c/em>. A writer by the name of John Mendelssohn was inspired by this Kate-less expanse of time and wrote a novel called \u003cem>Waiting for Kate Bush\u003c/em>, which is about a bunch of obsessed fans hanging out in a boarding house, waiting for her return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver lining for you non-believers: Because you’ve been sleeping on all this brilliance, you get to skip the agony of staring dramatically out of windows for years, longing for another Kate Bush release. 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"content": "\u003cp>Throughout the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week, there was a persistent and obvious theme of discord on repeat. Call it \"Music vs. Meaning\" and let us sing some of its many verses: Musicians expressed resentment at Donald Trump and his party's use of their songs. Acts — both on and off the arena floor — tried to send messages, with varied levels of success, about their political views. Intentionally or not, the possible future First Lady snuck a viral refrain from a 1987 pop song into a speech that was already problematic. The whole week was studded with such uncomfortable, perplexing and frankly odd moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite a few bands whose music has been used along Donald Trump's campaign trail have made their unhappiness very public: \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-jr-kasich-briefly-vp-prospect-40763522\" target=\"_blank\">The O'Jays\u003c/a>. The surviving members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queen-frustrated-by-donald-trump-after-rnc-song-usage-w429857\" target=\"_blank\">Queen\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GeorgeHarrison/status/756329307325235202\" target=\"_blank\">George Harrison\u003c/a>'s estate. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/01/politics/adele-donald-trump-music/\" target=\"_blank\">Adele\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7445764/earth-wind-fire-donald-trump-unauthorized-september\" target=\"_blank\">Earth, Wind & Fire\u003c/a>. REM's \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rem-singer-micheal-stipe-tells-donald-trump-to-go-fk-himself-for-using-bands-song-in-moronic-charade-10494277.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Stipe\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-turtles-gop-convention-happy-together-20160718-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Turtles\u003c/a>. Aerosmith's \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-tyler/politicians-respect-and-protect-copyright_b_8293894.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Tyler\u003c/a> (though he said his objection was financial, not ideological). \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-donald-trump-spar-over-rockin-in-the-free-world-use-20150617\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Young\u003c/a> (though he, like Tyler, eventually said he was concerned about \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-im-ok-with-donald-trump-using-rockin-in-the-free-world-20160524\" target=\"_blank\">money\u003c/a> and permission). And perhaps most famously now, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/the-rolling-stones/95195\" target=\"_blank\">The Rolling Stones\u003c/a> — more on them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legally, however, the GOP and the Trump campaign can use all those songs, as Melinda Newman (a former colleague of mine at \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>) explained in \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> this week, as long as the rights holders are paid: \"The \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/melindanewman/2016/07/19/why-queen-cannot-stop-trumps-use-of-we-are-the-champions/2/#40ee6e935e7c\">sad truth\u003c/a> is for many artists, they can not keep their songs from being used in this context even if they vehemently disagree with the politician who is using the song.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only use that such unhappy musicians can prohibit is in political commercials — and so far, Trump has not needed to rely on paid advertisements to get his message and visage in the public eye. (By contrast, a suit involving music used in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7438177/suit-ted-cruz-song-use-audiosocket-going-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz campaign commercial\u003c/a> during the primaries will go ahead, a judge in Seattle ruled earlier this month.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other musicians who have in the past publicly said that they don't necessarily agree with the Republican platform took a different tack. The convention's house band this year was led by guitarist and former \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> musical director G.E. Smith. This isn't the first time that Smith and his bandmates have played a Republican convention. As Smith explained to \u003ca href=\"http://www.guitarworld.com/features-news-interviews/ge-smith-talks-bass-republicans-and-performing-roger-waters/%0919609\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Guitar World\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2013, he's taken these gigs on with family bills in mind: \"Well, not only will this pay for several years of Josie [his daughter]'s school, but I can hire six or seven of my friends, and give them a really good pay day too ... We may not be Republicans, obviously, but it was really interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Smith and his fellow musicians put together some intriguing song choices together to entertain the delegates. Among them was David Bowie's \"Station to Station,\" which \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/18/watch_the_rnc_house_band_sing_a_david_bowie_song_about_cocaine.html\" target=\"_blank\">includes\u003c/a> lines like \"It's not the side-effects of the cocaine/I'm thinking that it must be love/It's too late to be grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of the band's picks on Wednesday was, according to \u003cem>Newsday, \u003c/em>a huge \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/samsanders/status/755908993319567360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">crowd favorite\u003c/a>: Neil Diamond's \"Sweet Caroline\" — a song which was, Diamond claimed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/21/usa.musicnews\" target=\"_blank\">in 2007\u003c/a>, written in honor of one very notable Democrat: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy — the current U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/amb/tamb-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">ambassador to Japan\u003c/a>. (Diamond \u003ca href=\"http://www.today.com/popculture/neil-diamond-reveals-sweet-caroline-secret-today-1D80228037\" target=\"_blank\">later said\u003c/a> that his cute back story was only partly true.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other artists were a little more directly confrontational with the delegates. Four years ago, singer Stephan Jenkins explained why his band, Third Eye Blind, turned down an invitation to play a private party during the Republican National Convention: \"They are in fact, a party dedicated to exclusion...If I came to their convention, I would \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephan-jenkins/third-eye-blind-rnc_b_1839576.html\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy\u003c/a> their convention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, however, Third Eye Blind, a band whose popularity was at its peak about 20 years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/07/20/third-eye-blind-trolls-rnc-party-comments-science-songs-not-semi-charmed-life/\" target=\"_blank\">morphed into a Trojan horse of anti-Republican sentiment\u003c/a> when they played a charity show at Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the apparent purpose of riling up the GOP attendees at the show. They played almost none of their '90s hits, and Jenkins \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/20/third-eye-blind-trolls-gop-during-rnc.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl\" target=\"_blank\">taunted\u003c/a> the crowd with comments like, \"Raise your hand if you believe in science!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the stealth spectrum was the debut of Prophets of Rage, a supergroup featuring members of some more obviously political groups: Public Enemy's Chuck D, Rage Against the Machine's guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk, alongside B-Real from Cypress Hill. As the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>' Joe Coscarelli \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/arts/music/prophets-of-rage-bring-their-anger-to-the-republican-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out\u003c/a>, they played for — and rallied beside — like-minded audiences in Ohio. He jotted down sketches of their time in Cleveland: \"Prophets of Rage, meanwhile, face an entirely friendly room eager to mosh and scream along to aggressive anti-establishment songs written two decades ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the most interesting intersections of — and muddlings between — music and politics this week came out of the Trump campaign itself. One of the highest-profile moments at the convention this week actually seemed to carry certain musical resonances, even if none were intended. After the sections of Melania Trump's Tuesday evening speech that her husband's campaign now says \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/07/20/486758596/trump-speechwriter-accepts-responsibility-for-using-michelle-obamas-words\" target=\"_blank\">were taken\u003c/a> from Michelle Obama came words that seemed to be a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998/rickrolled-or-how-one-politician-overcame-partisan-divide-to-pull-a-prank\" target=\"_blank\">Rickroll\u003c/a>: \"He will never, ever give up. And, most importantly,\" Mrs. Trump said, pausing just then to let her words fully sink in, \"He will never, ever let you down.\" Yesterday, CNBC reported that Rick Astley's now-immortal 1987 hit \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" has enjoyed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/21/rick-astleys-music-gets-boost-following-melania-trump-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">19 percent surge\u003c/a> in Spotify streams since Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his primary battles, Trump's campaign soundtrack has included recorded tracks that expressly seemed to be aimed at simply amping up the audience, like Adele, The Beatles, and Survivor's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/15/donald-trumps-campaign-soundtrack-a-grammy-day-playlist/\">Eye of the Tiger\u003c/a>.\" But Trump has also thrown in some curveballs that make it plain that at least somebody on that campaign has an ear for using music as theater. His playlist has often included a recording of Luciano Pavarotti singing the Puccinia aria \"\u003cem>Nessun Dorma\u003c/em>\" (None Shall Sleep) from the opera \u003cem>Turandot\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one case in which the lyrics actually do appear to reflect Trump's political intentions. \"Nessun Dorma\" ends with these words: \"\u003cem>All'alba vincerò! Vincerò, vincerò\u003c/em>! (\"At dawn, I will win! I will win, I will win!\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in case that high-culture song is a bit too coded, the Republican candidate's arrival in Cleveland on Wednesday was reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/20/trump-makes-grand-entrance-cleveland-complete-air-force-one-theme/87342334/\" target=\"_blank\">heralded\u003c/a> by a recording of Jerry Goldsmith's music for the 1997 flick \u003cem>Air Force One,\u003c/em> starring Harrison Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the balloons and confetti (eventually) began to rain down last night at the Quicken Loans arena, however, rock 'n' roll had the last word on Trump — or maybe exactly the inverse happened. The evening's last musical selection was the Rolling Stones' \"You Can't Always Get What You Want.\" Commenters on Twitter last night \u003ca href=\"http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/22/donald-trump-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want\" target=\"_blank\">made hay\u003c/a> of the seeming disconnects in meaning between the song and the convention's spectacle of unity. But Trump has long used that tune in particular as one of his campaign's anthems, despite the band's \u003ca href=\"http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/donald-trump-ends-his-rnc-speech-by-playing-rolling-stones-a-band-who-once-pulled-a-knife-on-him/\" target=\"_blank\">fury\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-rolling-stones-stop-music-election-2016/\" target=\"_blank\">request\u003c/a> the band sent to the GOP candidate's team earlier this year to stop using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one from the Trump campaign has explained exactly why \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" has become such a staple selection at his events — at one rally in Carmel, Ind. back in May, for example, the song was played \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-rollingstones-idUSKCN0XV2ME\" target=\"_blank\">at least four times\u003c/a> at that single campaign stop. But in May, Trump himself responded to the Stones' request in a way that appeared to slough off any implications of the song's lyrics entirely: \"I like Mick Jagger. I like their songs,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wont-beast-burden-stones-donald-trump/story?id=38898665\" target=\"_blank\">told\u003c/a> CNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>'s website earlier this week, Amanda Petrusich published an \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-republican-partys-unrequited-love-of-rock-music\">essay\u003c/a> about some of those apparent paradoxes of meaning, along with some of the musicians she's encountered in Cleveland this week. \"In this particular context,\" she wrote — citing famous examples like \"Born in the U.S.A.\" and \"This Land Is Your Land\" — \"it doesn't matter if there's a staggering fissure between what a thing really means and what someone else wants it to mean. All that matters is that it sounds cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's response to the Stones bulwarks Petrusich's point. But it's also true that there's something of a bargain that artists — musicians, poets, painters, whatever — implicitly make when they put their work out into the world. They can create with whatever intention they want, but the receptors of that art — the public — are inevitably going to receive and interpret that output with their own filters, experiences and frameworks. There can be a big split between what is legally allowable and what makes artists happy. That is the deal. And once the creative work is public, others can assign whatever meaning they want to it— consciously or unconsciously, earnestly or cynically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And forever after, those works carry, in our communal memory, not just the artists' intentions about that output (correctly understood or not), but also the resonances of how that music is later used by others. Even if Richard Wagner had not been an anti-Semite himself (which he \u003ca href=\"http://www.dw.com/en/the-hateful-side-of-wagners-musical-genius/a-16850818\" target=\"_blank\">certainly was\u003c/a>), would most people be able to completely divorce his compositions from how they were loved by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/arts/the-specter-of-hitler-in-the-music-of-wagner.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Hitler\u003c/a> and the other Nazis? A less loaded Wagner example: Can anyone today hear his \"Ride of the Valkyries\" without instantly flashing to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKaYOW9zMoY\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse Now\u003c/a>\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists can make their displeasure widely known, of course; it's easier today than it's ever been, and absolutely instantaneous thanks to social media. But as soon as musicians feel the need to publicly disassociate themselves from their own work, they are that much farther away from their creations. There's an intercessor, an interloper. After last night, will we ever be able to hear \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" again without feeling a slight tug of a certain memory — not of Mick Jagger singing, but of Donald Trump shouting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Cleveland%2C+Rocked%3A+Music+At+The+Republican+National+Convention&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Throughout the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week, there was a persistent and obvious theme of discord on repeat. Call it \"Music vs. Meaning\" and let us sing some of its many verses: Musicians expressed resentment at Donald Trump and his party's use of their songs. Acts — both on and off the arena floor — tried to send messages, with varied levels of success, about their political views. Intentionally or not, the possible future First Lady snuck a viral refrain from a 1987 pop song into a speech that was already problematic. The whole week was studded with such uncomfortable, perplexing and frankly odd moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite a few bands whose music has been used along Donald Trump's campaign trail have made their unhappiness very public: \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-jr-kasich-briefly-vp-prospect-40763522\" target=\"_blank\">The O'Jays\u003c/a>. The surviving members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queen-frustrated-by-donald-trump-after-rnc-song-usage-w429857\" target=\"_blank\">Queen\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GeorgeHarrison/status/756329307325235202\" target=\"_blank\">George Harrison\u003c/a>'s estate. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/01/politics/adele-donald-trump-music/\" target=\"_blank\">Adele\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7445764/earth-wind-fire-donald-trump-unauthorized-september\" target=\"_blank\">Earth, Wind & Fire\u003c/a>. REM's \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rem-singer-micheal-stipe-tells-donald-trump-to-go-fk-himself-for-using-bands-song-in-moronic-charade-10494277.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Stipe\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-turtles-gop-convention-happy-together-20160718-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Turtles\u003c/a>. Aerosmith's \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-tyler/politicians-respect-and-protect-copyright_b_8293894.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Tyler\u003c/a> (though he said his objection was financial, not ideological). \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-donald-trump-spar-over-rockin-in-the-free-world-use-20150617\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Young\u003c/a> (though he, like Tyler, eventually said he was concerned about \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-im-ok-with-donald-trump-using-rockin-in-the-free-world-20160524\" target=\"_blank\">money\u003c/a> and permission). And perhaps most famously now, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/the-rolling-stones/95195\" target=\"_blank\">The Rolling Stones\u003c/a> — more on them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legally, however, the GOP and the Trump campaign can use all those songs, as Melinda Newman (a former colleague of mine at \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>) explained in \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> this week, as long as the rights holders are paid: \"The \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/melindanewman/2016/07/19/why-queen-cannot-stop-trumps-use-of-we-are-the-champions/2/#40ee6e935e7c\">sad truth\u003c/a> is for many artists, they can not keep their songs from being used in this context even if they vehemently disagree with the politician who is using the song.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only use that such unhappy musicians can prohibit is in political commercials — and so far, Trump has not needed to rely on paid advertisements to get his message and visage in the public eye. (By contrast, a suit involving music used in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7438177/suit-ted-cruz-song-use-audiosocket-going-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz campaign commercial\u003c/a> during the primaries will go ahead, a judge in Seattle ruled earlier this month.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other musicians who have in the past publicly said that they don't necessarily agree with the Republican platform took a different tack. The convention's house band this year was led by guitarist and former \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> musical director G.E. Smith. This isn't the first time that Smith and his bandmates have played a Republican convention. As Smith explained to \u003ca href=\"http://www.guitarworld.com/features-news-interviews/ge-smith-talks-bass-republicans-and-performing-roger-waters/%0919609\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Guitar World\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2013, he's taken these gigs on with family bills in mind: \"Well, not only will this pay for several years of Josie [his daughter]'s school, but I can hire six or seven of my friends, and give them a really good pay day too ... We may not be Republicans, obviously, but it was really interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Smith and his fellow musicians put together some intriguing song choices together to entertain the delegates. Among them was David Bowie's \"Station to Station,\" which \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/18/watch_the_rnc_house_band_sing_a_david_bowie_song_about_cocaine.html\" target=\"_blank\">includes\u003c/a> lines like \"It's not the side-effects of the cocaine/I'm thinking that it must be love/It's too late to be grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of the band's picks on Wednesday was, according to \u003cem>Newsday, \u003c/em>a huge \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/samsanders/status/755908993319567360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">crowd favorite\u003c/a>: Neil Diamond's \"Sweet Caroline\" — a song which was, Diamond claimed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/21/usa.musicnews\" target=\"_blank\">in 2007\u003c/a>, written in honor of one very notable Democrat: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy — the current U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/amb/tamb-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">ambassador to Japan\u003c/a>. (Diamond \u003ca href=\"http://www.today.com/popculture/neil-diamond-reveals-sweet-caroline-secret-today-1D80228037\" target=\"_blank\">later said\u003c/a> that his cute back story was only partly true.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other artists were a little more directly confrontational with the delegates. Four years ago, singer Stephan Jenkins explained why his band, Third Eye Blind, turned down an invitation to play a private party during the Republican National Convention: \"They are in fact, a party dedicated to exclusion...If I came to their convention, I would \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephan-jenkins/third-eye-blind-rnc_b_1839576.html\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy\u003c/a> their convention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, however, Third Eye Blind, a band whose popularity was at its peak about 20 years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/07/20/third-eye-blind-trolls-rnc-party-comments-science-songs-not-semi-charmed-life/\" target=\"_blank\">morphed into a Trojan horse of anti-Republican sentiment\u003c/a> when they played a charity show at Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the apparent purpose of riling up the GOP attendees at the show. They played almost none of their '90s hits, and Jenkins \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/20/third-eye-blind-trolls-gop-during-rnc.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl\" target=\"_blank\">taunted\u003c/a> the crowd with comments like, \"Raise your hand if you believe in science!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the stealth spectrum was the debut of Prophets of Rage, a supergroup featuring members of some more obviously political groups: Public Enemy's Chuck D, Rage Against the Machine's guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk, alongside B-Real from Cypress Hill. As the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>' Joe Coscarelli \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/arts/music/prophets-of-rage-bring-their-anger-to-the-republican-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out\u003c/a>, they played for — and rallied beside — like-minded audiences in Ohio. He jotted down sketches of their time in Cleveland: \"Prophets of Rage, meanwhile, face an entirely friendly room eager to mosh and scream along to aggressive anti-establishment songs written two decades ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the most interesting intersections of — and muddlings between — music and politics this week came out of the Trump campaign itself. One of the highest-profile moments at the convention this week actually seemed to carry certain musical resonances, even if none were intended. After the sections of Melania Trump's Tuesday evening speech that her husband's campaign now says \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/07/20/486758596/trump-speechwriter-accepts-responsibility-for-using-michelle-obamas-words\" target=\"_blank\">were taken\u003c/a> from Michelle Obama came words that seemed to be a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998/rickrolled-or-how-one-politician-overcame-partisan-divide-to-pull-a-prank\" target=\"_blank\">Rickroll\u003c/a>: \"He will never, ever give up. And, most importantly,\" Mrs. Trump said, pausing just then to let her words fully sink in, \"He will never, ever let you down.\" Yesterday, CNBC reported that Rick Astley's now-immortal 1987 hit \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" has enjoyed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/21/rick-astleys-music-gets-boost-following-melania-trump-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">19 percent surge\u003c/a> in Spotify streams since Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his primary battles, Trump's campaign soundtrack has included recorded tracks that expressly seemed to be aimed at simply amping up the audience, like Adele, The Beatles, and Survivor's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/15/donald-trumps-campaign-soundtrack-a-grammy-day-playlist/\">Eye of the Tiger\u003c/a>.\" But Trump has also thrown in some curveballs that make it plain that at least somebody on that campaign has an ear for using music as theater. His playlist has often included a recording of Luciano Pavarotti singing the Puccinia aria \"\u003cem>Nessun Dorma\u003c/em>\" (None Shall Sleep) from the opera \u003cem>Turandot\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one case in which the lyrics actually do appear to reflect Trump's political intentions. \"Nessun Dorma\" ends with these words: \"\u003cem>All'alba vincerò! Vincerò, vincerò\u003c/em>! (\"At dawn, I will win! I will win, I will win!\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in case that high-culture song is a bit too coded, the Republican candidate's arrival in Cleveland on Wednesday was reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/20/trump-makes-grand-entrance-cleveland-complete-air-force-one-theme/87342334/\" target=\"_blank\">heralded\u003c/a> by a recording of Jerry Goldsmith's music for the 1997 flick \u003cem>Air Force One,\u003c/em> starring Harrison Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the balloons and confetti (eventually) began to rain down last night at the Quicken Loans arena, however, rock 'n' roll had the last word on Trump — or maybe exactly the inverse happened. The evening's last musical selection was the Rolling Stones' \"You Can't Always Get What You Want.\" Commenters on Twitter last night \u003ca href=\"http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/22/donald-trump-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want\" target=\"_blank\">made hay\u003c/a> of the seeming disconnects in meaning between the song and the convention's spectacle of unity. But Trump has long used that tune in particular as one of his campaign's anthems, despite the band's \u003ca href=\"http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/donald-trump-ends-his-rnc-speech-by-playing-rolling-stones-a-band-who-once-pulled-a-knife-on-him/\" target=\"_blank\">fury\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-rolling-stones-stop-music-election-2016/\" target=\"_blank\">request\u003c/a> the band sent to the GOP candidate's team earlier this year to stop using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one from the Trump campaign has explained exactly why \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" has become such a staple selection at his events — at one rally in Carmel, Ind. back in May, for example, the song was played \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-rollingstones-idUSKCN0XV2ME\" target=\"_blank\">at least four times\u003c/a> at that single campaign stop. But in May, Trump himself responded to the Stones' request in a way that appeared to slough off any implications of the song's lyrics entirely: \"I like Mick Jagger. I like their songs,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wont-beast-burden-stones-donald-trump/story?id=38898665\" target=\"_blank\">told\u003c/a> CNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>'s website earlier this week, Amanda Petrusich published an \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-republican-partys-unrequited-love-of-rock-music\">essay\u003c/a> about some of those apparent paradoxes of meaning, along with some of the musicians she's encountered in Cleveland this week. \"In this particular context,\" she wrote — citing famous examples like \"Born in the U.S.A.\" and \"This Land Is Your Land\" — \"it doesn't matter if there's a staggering fissure between what a thing really means and what someone else wants it to mean. All that matters is that it sounds cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's response to the Stones bulwarks Petrusich's point. But it's also true that there's something of a bargain that artists — musicians, poets, painters, whatever — implicitly make when they put their work out into the world. They can create with whatever intention they want, but the receptors of that art — the public — are inevitably going to receive and interpret that output with their own filters, experiences and frameworks. There can be a big split between what is legally allowable and what makes artists happy. That is the deal. And once the creative work is public, others can assign whatever meaning they want to it— consciously or unconsciously, earnestly or cynically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And forever after, those works carry, in our communal memory, not just the artists' intentions about that output (correctly understood or not), but also the resonances of how that music is later used by others. 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"content": "\u003cp>On my way to the \"emo night\" party in San Francisco -- also known as Taking Back Tuesday -- I imagined a bunch of kids sitting in a dark-lit room, swaying to the music, dressed in stripes and skinny jeans. What I got was a room full of nostalgic adults ready to go crazy to Taking Back Sunday, and dance like no one was watching. Moshing. Crowd-surfing. Grabbing strangers by the face and singing to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having recently expanded to the Bay Area from a similar weekly night in Los Angeles, Taking Back Tuesday is essentially one giant dance party wherein DJs play an assortment of nostalgic emo music — just so we emo kids can party like it’s 2005. But it's also more than that: It offers people ways to connect to their past, reassess their teen angst at a happier time in their lives, and make new friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's \u003cem>also\u003c/em> embroiled in a bit of controversy, as Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara told Billboard in an interview published July 19 that he has\u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7439176/taking-back-sunday-tuesday-adam-lazarra-interview-emo-dj-night-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\"> not-entirely-positive feelings about the tribute night\u003c/a>. But before the day's end, Lazzara posted\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BID1wxrjnYO/\" target=\"_blank\"> a note to Instagram with a clarification\u003c/a>, saying that his remarks were taken out of context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kai Schade, a first-time Taking Back Tuesday attendee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai Schade, a first-time Taking Back Tuesday attendee. \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the nuances of Lazzara's take, it's clear they've come to mean quite a bit to quite a few people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for me: I came out of the emo closet during my senior year of high school. I quickly realized that emo music has two stigmas: first, that its fans are always sad, and second, that they don’t like to party. The moment one walks into an emo night, both notions are proven wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this in mind, I chatted with emo night attendees at the Rickshaw Stop on Tuesday, July 10, to hear what brought them out to relive the glory of My Chemical Romance, Brand New, Panic at the Disco, and others who'd provided the soundtrack to their coming of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Acknowledging an emo past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30741\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chad Heimann\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Heimann \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taking Back Tuesday DJ Chad Heimann works as a talent buyer for Noise Pop -- meaning he books bands for events like the T\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/06/14/treasure-island-lineup-announced-sigur-ros-ice-cube-headline-final-year/\" target=\"_blank\">reasure Island Music Festival\u003c/a>. He’s excited this emo night has expanded to the the Bay Area, because it allows him to revisit his musical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to take a step back and look back on the building blocks of my musical journey,” he says. “I listen to current music every day. I never really get to take that step back and listen to music I listen to 10 years ago. It’s a nice way to kind of revisit that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a secret anymore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Riego Jr. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr..jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Riego Jr. \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Photographer Gil Riego Jr. attended the first Emo Night LA in December 2014. He’s been to almost every emo night in California since then, taking pictures — with the exception of one time when he was out of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says part of the reason the parties are so popular is the nostalgia in the air as people's favorite bands play 10- and 15-year anniversary tours. (\u003cem>Ed. note: Between this post being written and edited, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/christianzamora/the-black-parade-is-back?utm_term=.col6K58oa#.xrmbvRrZx\">My Chemical Romance joined the fray\u003c/a> with a hint at resurrection.\u003c/em>) “It’s almost like this whole new Pokémon Go thing. You never knew how many people used to listen to emo music or play Pokémon back in the day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also enjoys that people now are more accepting of emo culture. “I feel like emo was kind of rock's little stepbrother. It kind of got picked on, and you had to keep [liking] it a secret. For a while you didn’t want people to know you listen to this kind of music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All about the song\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Melvin (center) and friends\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Melvin (center) and friends \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mark Melvin decided to tag along to Taking Back Tuesdays while he was out drinking with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said ‘Why not?' I have a good buzz going, it’s Tuesday, and I know I can talk the bartender into giving me Tecate and Tequila shots for $6,” Melvin says. For him, the best part is that everyone's into it. “It’s good vibes,” he says. “The people [dancing] on stage aren’t going super crazy. They’re only there because the song is playing. It’s not like they’re up there for their own glory. It’s all about the song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not an awkward phase\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30740\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Hernandez\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Hernandez \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bryan Hernandez heard of Emo Night LA through friends on Twitter. Once he saw that Taking Back Tuesday had sprouted up in San Francisco, he knew he had to attend. “I was like, ‘I gotta go,’ and I rounded up my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Hernandez, Taking Back Tuesday is unifying. “Being an angsty teenager, you’re definitely sad, and [this is] go-to music for comfort,” Hernandez says. “It’s cool that everybody has grown up and can maybe look back on it at a happier time. We can just jump around and not be so sad anymore and just celebrate it for what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While others see being “emo” as a phase, Hernandez said he never saw it as a temporary part of his life. “I’ve stayed in it the entire time. I didn’t see it as an awkward phase,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'All kinds of emo crap'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Jones\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Jones agreed to go to Taking Back Tuesday because one of her friends talked her into it. “She was like, ‘you guys have to come with me,'” Jones says. “She’s way into Fall Out Boy and listens to all kinds of emo crap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she does enjoy emo, Jones prefers to listen to metal and '80s new wave. “I like emo music, but I can never name anything,” she says. “It sounded like a fun time. I really like themed club nights. It’s also only five bucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The band that changed everything\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30749\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gerard Cabarse (center) and friends\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerard Cabarse (center) and friends \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gerard Cabarse attended Taking Back Tuesday because he wanted to see Taking Back Sunday at the Taste of Chaos Festival, but didn’t want to drive to Concord on a work night. “For me, emo music represents a time in my life where I was looking for where I fit in, not only in my social circles but finding myself as a person,” Cabarse says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started listening to emo music when he was 13 years old and met a girl who liked the band Saosin. “That didn’t work out,” he says, “but hey, the music is awesome.”From there, he got into hardcore music and then moved on to bands like Mayday Parade, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, My Chemical Romance was the band that changed everything. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge was the first CD I ever bought with my own money,” he says. “I can sing every word on it and I still play it. They’re one of those bands that changed who I am as a person. Emo music became my identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The best night of her life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30750\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Lora Mistler\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lora-Mistler.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lora Mistler \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three-time Taking Back Tuesday attendee Lora Mistler comes to emo night to feel at home. “I live for this. It’s the best night of my life every time it happens,” Mistler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mistler can show up with a friend or alone and still feel like she belongs. “Even if I don't have friends, this is my family,” she says. “Everyone else has that same nostalgia and that’s what brings the family in. Everyone else has that same experience you do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We used to be emo girls together'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30752\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Jen McGowan (left) and Sammie Hendricks\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Jen-McGowan-left-Sammie-Hendricks-right.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen McGowan (left) and Sammie Hendricks \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sammie Hendricks and Jen McGowan have been friends for nearly six years. The two have been to Taking Back Tuesdays once before, and it reminds them of when their friendship started. “Once upon a time we used to be emo girls together,” Hendricks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendricks also likes how personable other people are. “Everyone is really friendly. A bunch of people try to talk to us,” she says. McGowan enjoys the community emo night brings, because most of the people she’s met had the same feelings she had as a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people think emo is emotional or whatever. For me personally, I get excited listening to this music,” McGowan said.\u003cbr>\n“It’s nice because everyone has something in common,” she adds, “which is music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd freaks out. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Crowd-shot-6-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd freaks out. \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On my way to the \"emo night\" party in San Francisco -- also known as Taking Back Tuesday -- I imagined a bunch of kids sitting in a dark-lit room, swaying to the music, dressed in stripes and skinny jeans. What I got was a room full of nostalgic adults ready to go crazy to Taking Back Sunday, and dance like no one was watching. Moshing. Crowd-surfing. Grabbing strangers by the face and singing to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having recently expanded to the Bay Area from a similar weekly night in Los Angeles, Taking Back Tuesday is essentially one giant dance party wherein DJs play an assortment of nostalgic emo music — just so we emo kids can party like it’s 2005. But it's also more than that: It offers people ways to connect to their past, reassess their teen angst at a happier time in their lives, and make new friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's \u003cem>also\u003c/em> embroiled in a bit of controversy, as Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara told Billboard in an interview published July 19 that he has\u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7439176/taking-back-sunday-tuesday-adam-lazarra-interview-emo-dj-night-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\"> not-entirely-positive feelings about the tribute night\u003c/a>. But before the day's end, Lazzara posted\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BID1wxrjnYO/\" target=\"_blank\"> a note to Instagram with a clarification\u003c/a>, saying that his remarks were taken out of context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kai Schade, a first-time Taking Back Tuesday attendee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/First-time-Taking-Back-Tuesday-atendee-Kai-Schade-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai Schade, a first-time Taking Back Tuesday attendee. \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the nuances of Lazzara's take, it's clear they've come to mean quite a bit to quite a few people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for me: I came out of the emo closet during my senior year of high school. I quickly realized that emo music has two stigmas: first, that its fans are always sad, and second, that they don’t like to party. The moment one walks into an emo night, both notions are proven wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this in mind, I chatted with emo night attendees at the Rickshaw Stop on Tuesday, July 10, to hear what brought them out to relive the glory of My Chemical Romance, Brand New, Panic at the Disco, and others who'd provided the soundtrack to their coming of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Acknowledging an emo past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30741\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chad Heimann\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Chad-Heimann-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Heimann \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taking Back Tuesday DJ Chad Heimann works as a talent buyer for Noise Pop -- meaning he books bands for events like the T\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/06/14/treasure-island-lineup-announced-sigur-ros-ice-cube-headline-final-year/\" target=\"_blank\">reasure Island Music Festival\u003c/a>. He’s excited this emo night has expanded to the the Bay Area, because it allows him to revisit his musical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to take a step back and look back on the building blocks of my musical journey,” he says. “I listen to current music every day. I never really get to take that step back and listen to music I listen to 10 years ago. It’s a nice way to kind of revisit that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a secret anymore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Riego Jr. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr.-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gil-Riego-Jr..jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Riego Jr. \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Photographer Gil Riego Jr. attended the first Emo Night LA in December 2014. He’s been to almost every emo night in California since then, taking pictures — with the exception of one time when he was out of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says part of the reason the parties are so popular is the nostalgia in the air as people's favorite bands play 10- and 15-year anniversary tours. (\u003cem>Ed. note: Between this post being written and edited, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/christianzamora/the-black-parade-is-back?utm_term=.col6K58oa#.xrmbvRrZx\">My Chemical Romance joined the fray\u003c/a> with a hint at resurrection.\u003c/em>) “It’s almost like this whole new Pokémon Go thing. You never knew how many people used to listen to emo music or play Pokémon back in the day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also enjoys that people now are more accepting of emo culture. “I feel like emo was kind of rock's little stepbrother. It kind of got picked on, and you had to keep [liking] it a secret. For a while you didn’t want people to know you listen to this kind of music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All about the song\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Melvin (center) and friends\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Mark-Melvin-center-and-friends-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Melvin (center) and friends \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mark Melvin decided to tag along to Taking Back Tuesdays while he was out drinking with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said ‘Why not?' I have a good buzz going, it’s Tuesday, and I know I can talk the bartender into giving me Tecate and Tequila shots for $6,” Melvin says. For him, the best part is that everyone's into it. “It’s good vibes,” he says. “The people [dancing] on stage aren’t going super crazy. They’re only there because the song is playing. It’s not like they’re up there for their own glory. It’s all about the song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not an awkward phase\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30740\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Hernandez\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Bryan-Hernandez-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Hernandez \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bryan Hernandez heard of Emo Night LA through friends on Twitter. Once he saw that Taking Back Tuesday had sprouted up in San Francisco, he knew he had to attend. “I was like, ‘I gotta go,’ and I rounded up my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Hernandez, Taking Back Tuesday is unifying. “Being an angsty teenager, you’re definitely sad, and [this is] go-to music for comfort,” Hernandez says. “It’s cool that everybody has grown up and can maybe look back on it at a happier time. We can just jump around and not be so sad anymore and just celebrate it for what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While others see being “emo” as a phase, Hernandez said he never saw it as a temporary part of his life. “I’ve stayed in it the entire time. I didn’t see it as an awkward phase,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'All kinds of emo crap'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Jones\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Lily-Jones-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Jones agreed to go to Taking Back Tuesday because one of her friends talked her into it. “She was like, ‘you guys have to come with me,'” Jones says. “She’s way into Fall Out Boy and listens to all kinds of emo crap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she does enjoy emo, Jones prefers to listen to metal and '80s new wave. “I like emo music, but I can never name anything,” she says. “It sounded like a fun time. I really like themed club nights. It’s also only five bucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The band that changed everything\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30749\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gerard Cabarse (center) and friends\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/Gerard-Cabarse-and-friends-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerard Cabarse (center) and friends \u003ccite>(Photo: Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gerard Cabarse attended Taking Back Tuesday because he wanted to see Taking Back Sunday at the Taste of Chaos Festival, but didn’t want to drive to Concord on a work night. “For me, emo music represents a time in my life where I was looking for where I fit in, not only in my social circles but finding myself as a person,” Cabarse says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started listening to emo music when he was 13 years old and met a girl who liked the band Saosin. “That didn’t work out,” he says, “but hey, the music is awesome.”From there, he got into hardcore music and then moved on to bands like Mayday Parade, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, My Chemical Romance was the band that changed everything. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge was the first CD I ever bought with my own money,” he says. “I can sing every word on it and I still play it. They’re one of those bands that changed who I am as a person. 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