cakes wrote:How do we even reconcile with family and neighbors who cheered it on?
Fuck 'em. If anything I've learned over the past years of this worldwide disgrace is I can now be just as affectless and need to be for my survival. That said, words and apologies mean jack without undertaking strategies to undo the universal hurt their vote and unyielding support has caused. Show me how you are sorry don't tell me. I had to end the friendship of the first friend I made on this planet; a person I once thought of as kind, gracious, and caring. He
still wants to be friends - or at least he did right after the election - but I can't do it. The thing is his mom was an immigrant from Mexico and his dad was a blue-collar white laborer. Nicest 'rents ever, both dead now, and I miss them. I'm sure they would be horrified. Possibly not. I'd cut them off too if needed.
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"I Will Survive" is so much bigger than Gloria Gaynor. The best example I can find is the version from
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with its bewitching blend of didgeridoo and uplifting aboriginal chanting. To my ears it's more about the playing, musicians, instrumentation, and arrangements than it is about the singer. Gloria lucked out on getting the call but anyone who could
sing would have rode that song to infamy. I love Erasure's interpolation in "I Love to Hate You," I dig the invigorating outro of Creme D'Cocoa's version; the jazz-inflected alchemical chording at Aretha's turn (rest of it is kinda mid); hell, I can even fuck with Cake's cover. The most important take on Trump's Kennedy Center brouhaha is his laser-focused task on cruelty and taking the joy from any culture that isn't eurocentric. As for Gloria Gaynor a boomer is gonna boomer, I just thank Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren for creating a timeless song and will never dissever my soul from the soul of it.