While protest songs can sometimes come across as didactic and heavy handed, UK singer/songwriter Nick Mulvey's collaboration with Iranian superstar Golshifteh Farahani and Grammy award winning Pakistani artist Arooj Aftab has wisely stuck to a simple, universal message of freedom for all. The song was released in the first few months of 2024 as a fundraiser for the refugee charity Choose Love.
While it would be easy to try and suggest that the song is tying itself to specific battles around the world for freedom, with some suggesting it's for Palestine, or Ukraine, or for the women's rights movement in Iran, the beauty of the song is that it transcends all of the specific contexts anyone would seek to put upon it by sticking to a simple, straight forward message: Liberty. As they sing "Only Freedom will do."
No comments:
Post a Comment