Christysaints - Passionate Melodies

A Star Is Born

1937 | 1954 | 1976 | 2018

huntington bank pavilion, chicago, il | july 2, 2018

I got out there and I was so freaking nervous as I’m sure you can imagine I would be. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything of that magnitude, and I looked out into the audience and saw one person standing up looking at me with total peace on her face, and it was Janelle Monae and it really touched me. I lost all my nervousness and just sang it to her, and then everybody else rose to follow her, and I don’t think I’ll ever forget that.

Brandi Carlile, 2019 Grammys backstage interview responding to a question about what went through her head when people rose to their feet during her performance of “The Joke” (via clarkeiminchargegriffin)

Lauren performing More Than That on The Late Late Show

anyway it is the year two thousand and twenty and in my country alone 100,000+ are dead and over 40 million people (myself included) are unemployed due to a pandemic that has had a negligent-at-best-cruel-at-worst government response, black people are being murdered by police at horrific rates, trans people have the highest murder rate of any group, hate crimes (especially against immigrants) have spiked globally, and the president called for the military to shoot people protesting violent systemic injustice

if you will not use any platform at your disposal to call out injustice and bigotry then you have chosen your side

neutrality is not an option when one side is calling for the death of the other