Now there is a danger, we are warned, from listening to things that we agree with whole heartedly. We’ll be narrowing our viewpoints, we won’t be seeing the other side, we’ll miss the bigger picture. You know what? Phooey. Because on ‘Cancel Culture‘ Crys Matthews sings: “there’s a whole lot in our culture I’d cancel if I could” and then makes a list of choices that no-one, it seems, could argue with – “no more whitewashing our history / when the truth will set us free“, or “instead of banning saying gay we should ban racist holidays” or “teachers should get to teach without worrying….if they’ll have an active shooter to keep at bay” or “no more pretending machine guns is what the second amendment was for” or….well, listen to the song and see that surely you’ll agree. It’s actually not political but rather a statement of the blatantly obvious to say that children shouldn’t need to carry bullet proof backpacks…and it’s some kind of blind selfish insanity to suggest that they should.
‘Cancel Culture‘ is taken from Crys Matthews’ upcoming release ‘Reclamation’, an album she describes as being “both sonically and ideologically the fullest representation of who I am as an artist and as a human.” Which is to say – “a preacher’s kid, a Black woman, a Butch lesbian, and a proud Southerner who sings social justice music right alongside ‘traditional’ Country and Americana music.“
Speaking of ‘Cancel Culture‘ Crys Matthews explains that “So often when I perform, I am the only person or one of a very few people in that space who looks like me. And because of the type of music that I sing, inevitably at the end of the night, someone would come up to me and say some version of ‘You’re just so brave talking about all of this stuff — I think that I would be so scared of being cancelled that I would just stay quiet. The audacity of that, the notion of staying quiet in the face of something that you yourself know is wrong — I had too many feelings about it especially because there is so much in this American culture of ours that we could and should be cancelling.“
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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