Fiona Apple Covers “Revolution” for Right Now — SkimNews
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- Fiona Apple and the Bolt Cutters recorded a cover of the 1968 protest song “Mother Earth’s ‘Revolution,’” with Apple, Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg and Amy Aileen Wood contributing remotely from locations including Los Angeles, Houston and the East Coast.
- Right Now will include the cover and benefit Doctors Without Borders; Dougie Bowne produced the project.
- Zelda Hallman shared the recording on Instagram on Friday and said Tuesday’s midterm-election result offered hope for a more progressive, compassionate, inclusive and just future, calling it “a victory, but only a beginning.”
- Hallman’s Friday post connected dockworkers refusing to lend labor to weapons shipments, protesters confronting ICE, demands for Palestinian freedom and an end to bombing Gaza, reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, health care, equal protection, due process, Indigenous treaty rights and justice for Native, Black and LGBTQ+ communities. It also called for tax dollars to feed children rather than bomb them and questioned who profits from war and resource competition “from Greenland to the Congo.”
- Apple said in a July Instagram video that she was trying to capture the “endless barrage of horrors” in the world and rejected the idea that she did not care, even while second-guessing whether she was saying it right.
Why it matters: Right Now’s named beneficiary is Doctors Without Borders, making the 1968 cover a charitable project involving four performers: Apple, Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg and Amy Aileen Wood. Its scheduled inclusion gives Hallman’s post-election message a concrete musical vehicle, connecting calls for peace, labor rights and justice to a release with a specific beneficiary.
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