What can musicians do in a time like this? As these artists prove, a hell of a lot.
Minneapolis musician Jeremy Messersmith occasionally sets himself a challenge: write one new song every day for an entire month. He started his most recent songwriting marathon in January, the coldest month of the year in Minnesota, a seemingly perfect time to hunker down and create. Seven days into the new year, an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother who had just dropped off her six-year-old at school.
Messersmith, a beloved local songwriter who's lived in the city for over 20 years, woke up the next day and felt like he couldn't go on. "I sat down to write and I just had nothing else to say. I had absolutely nothing else to say that day," he tells InsideHook. "Then I was kind of vocalizing and I just went, 'Eff this.'"
His completed song, titled "Fuck This," is part of a growing tidal wave of protest music created in response to the increasingly violent immigration enforcement across the country, which has led to the shocking killings of Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. The songs include traditional protest music in the style of...
Source: https://www.insidehook.com/music/ice-protest-songs-galvanizing-minneapolis
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