R.E.M. share ‘We Are Hope Regardless of The Occasions’ compilation to mark Nationwide Voter Registration Day
R.E.M. have shared ‘We Are Hope Regardless of The Occasions’, a digital compilation of songs to mark Nationwide Voter Registration Day.
The compilation options 18 hand-picked R.E.M tracks by the band from their career-spanning discography, highlighting themes of activism and social accountability. The songs embrace ‘World Chief Fake’, ‘Fall On Me’, ‘Welcome To The Occupation’, ‘Drive’, ‘Most interesting Work Track’, ’Flip You Inside-Out’, ‘Pop Track ’89’, ‘Stand’ and ‘Its the Finish of the World As We Know It (And I Really feel Fantastic)’.
Its title ‘We Are Hope Regardless of The Occasions’ is derived from the band’s track ‘These Days’ from their 1986 LP ‘Lifes Wealthy Pageant’ which incorporates the lyric: “We’re younger regardless of the years / We’re concern, we’re hope regardless of the occasions.” The compilation goals to encourage followers to remain knowledgeable and to vote throughout this election season.
R.E.M are urging their followers to go to vote.gov or headcount.org with a purpose to register to vote or replace their voting data.
‘We Are Hope Regardless of The Occasions’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Flip You Inside-Out’
2. ‘Pop Track ’89’
3. ‘These Days’
4. ‘I Imagine’
5. ‘Fall on Me’
6. ‘Welcome to the Occupation’
7. ‘World Chief Fake’
8. ‘Drive’
9. ‘Start The Start’
10. ‘Most interesting Worksong’
11. ‘Exhuming McCarthy’
12. ‘Only a Contact’
13. ‘Cuyahoga’
14. ‘Disturbance At The Heron Home’
15. ‘Swan Swan H’
16. ‘Ignoreland’
17. ‘Stand’
18. ‘Its the Finish of the World As We Know It (And I Really feel Fantastic)’
The band have all the time been vocal in regards to the significance of collaborating in elections. Again in 2016, R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe and Mike Mills spoke of their worry of Donald Trump’s presidency throughout a Q&S session on the London Borderline and added that they hoped that his election would “galvanise” disillusioned American voters.
In 2019, the group reacted to Trump’s use of their track ‘Everyone Hurts’ in a meme which positioned his State of the Union deal with in opposition to down-cast-looking politicians together with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.
The publish has since been eliminated however on the time, the band tweeted: “World Chief PRETEND!!! Congress, Media–ghost this faker!!! Love, R.E.M.” The road “World Chief Fake” is a reference to the band’s 1988 monitor of the identical title, which included the lyrics, “I raised the wall and I would be the one to knock it down.”
It’s not the primary instance of the band arising in opposition to the president. In 2015, Trump and different politicians used the band’s 1987 monitor, “It’s the Finish of the World As We Know It (And I Really feel Fantastic),” throughout rallies and the band’s frontman had various phrases to say about it.
Stipe stated: “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you — you unhappy, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little males. Don’t use our music or my voice in your moronic charade of a marketing campaign.”
In 2020, Mills shared that the group thought of pursuing authorized motion in opposition to the previous president after he performed two of their songs at a marketing campaign rally.
The US band, who cut up up in 2011, stated that they’re “exploring all authorized avenues” to cease Trump from utilizing their music on his marketing campaign path on the time. Days after Trump used the songs at a rally in Milwaukee, Mills described the President as a “fraud” and “con man” and stated the band does “not condone using our music” by him.
Elsewhere, Billie Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy immediately (September 17).
The ‘Birds Of A Feather’ singer and her brother took to their official Instagram account to encourage followers to vote, whereas particularly endorsing Harris. “We’re asking you to please be part of us in going to Iwillvote.com to verify your standing and vote early like we do,” started Finneas in an Instagram clip, with Billie including: “We’re voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as a result of they’re preventing to guard our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy.”
Final week, Taylor Swift shared her endorsement of Harris‘ presidential candidacy. The pop star shared an Instagram publish wherein she championed Harris as a “steady-handed, gifted chief”, saying she believes “we will accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos”. Swift additionally stated Harris “fights for the rights and causes I consider want a warrior to champion them”.
Swift additionally urged voters to do their very own analysis to make an knowledgeable determination on who they need to vote for and really useful first-time voters to register forward of time. She additionally included a hyperlink to the registration web site Vote.gov to her Instagram account.
The ‘Bejeweled’ singer’s push for followers to register to vote led to just about half one million individuals visiting the location immediately from the hyperlink she shared inside 24 hours of her publish – up from round 30,000 web site guests a day.
Following Swift’s footsteps, Stevie Nicks additionally shared her endorsement for Harris, saying: “Now could be the time to analysis and select the candidate that speaks to you and your beliefs. Solely 54 days left till the election. Be sure you are registered to vote! Your vote on this election could also be probably the most essential belongings you ever do.”
Elsewhere, The White Stripes revealed that they’re suing former president Donald Trump over his unauthorised use of ‘Seven Nation Military’ in a social media publish.
In response to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal courtroom in Manhattan, the band “vehemently oppose the insurance policies adopted and actions taken by Defendant Trump when he was President and people he has proposed for the second time period he seeks” (per Pitchfork).
Not too long ago, Brilliant Eyes‘ frontman Conor Oberst spoke to NME about their new album and opened up in regards to the upcoming election.
“I imply, knock on wooden, however I believe that Vice President Harris would make an amazing president. She’s extremely sensible. She appears empathetic and really, very certified. I don’t wish to say that it’s a completed deal, individuals want to point out up, and there are some hurdles so far as being the primary lady of color [to run for president],” he stated.
He continued: “For progressive leaning buddies of mine it felt that when Biden was nonetheless within the race, it was like everybody had resigned to the truth that he was most likely going to lose, and that it was gonna be horrible. Now it seems like we would truly have the ability to pull this factor off, if everybody will get collectively and agrees that, sadly, now we have a binary choice, and given the 2 choices, one is clearly a lot better than the opposite. I hope that carries us throughout the end line.”
In different information, R.E.M lately defined why they’ll by no means reunite as a full-time band, saying that it could “by no means be nearly as good” in the event that they did.