In 2014, demonstrations against police brutality were met with inaction from too much of the music world. Here's why this moment has been different.
of George Floyd on her Instagram account on May 28, providing links to Black Lives Matter resources and writing to her 7 million followers, “felt helpless all week about this... if you want to help and you don’t know how, swipe for some things you can do to SPEAK UP.
The fact that activism has become such ordinary pop-star behavior at this specific moment reflects the ubiquitous nature of the protests themselves -- two weeks removed from Floyd’s senseless death, and a few months after the similarly tragic killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, the general public refuses to let one day go by without widespread outrage and demonstration.
And while a handful of artists joined the front lines and vociferously demanded justice alongside protestors, the majority of popular music artists -- white artists in particular -- did not. There were a fewfired off, a couple of vague anti-violence Instagram posts, yet the radio silence far outweighed the calls to action, and there was more shoulder-shrugging at a human rights violation than artists standing up to fight it.
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