STRENGTH THROUGH MUSIC 2018 AMANDA PALMER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- the first “Strength Through Music” (from my first solo album Who Killed Amanda Palmer), was shot on location at and featuring students from Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. the original video was filmed as a response to the mass shootings at columbine high school. people were shocked and horrified at columbine, and gun laws didn’t change. newtown happened, and laws didn’t change. since then, school shootings have become regular. commonplace.part of “life”. there is a school shooting in the US ALMOST EVERY DAY. it’s got to stop. we made this new version of the song and video, featuring the names of those murdered at marjory stone man douglas high school - and newtown elementary, and columbine high school - as a response to this ongoing insanity. the thousands of dollars that this remix will earn on my patreon page will all be donated to March For Our Lives (www.marchforou...) which is taking place on march 24th, and the song is also available on bandcamp for $1 - all of that money will be donated to the march as well. i hope it helps. we have had enough. #NeverAgain
thank you to all of my patrons for making my art possible and sustainable. if you want to read the whole back-story of this video...go here: / strength-through-17279082
and please join us so we can make more art.
CREDITS
shot, cut & directed by Michael Pope
produced by BriAnna Olson
music and lyrics by Amanda Palmer, from “Who Killed Amanda Palmer”
produced by Ben Folds
engineered and mixed by Joe Costa
piano and vocals - Amanda Palmer
synthesizers - Ben Folds
2018 vocal engineer (recording of list of names) - Marco Benevento
WE WILL REMEMBER
#NeverAgain
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Man, as a Parkland resident and as someone who used to attend MSD, this hit me hard. The message is so important, thank you Amanda.
sending you a hug. this world. i swear.
Hey, this really hit hard- I had a few friends in the schools that were recently victims of shootings. If I had money to spare I would send it to the organisation in a heartbeat- I just hope and try my best to help out those around me who struggle, and may do something like this if untreated. Luckily none of my friends were harmed, but to see someone like you, an idol stand up for children in a generation where rebellion stops the love, and promotes the violence- it just- means so much. My school and others near have been on their toes, and knee deep in threats of violence. Actually, our school was even in lockdown all of yesterday- and it was absolutely terrifying. This year there have been more school shootings that I can count on my fingers, and that's not okay. This generation of people is left so untouched and so babied in the wrong ways that we unintentionally leave out the people who need help.. I hope that everyone here watching this video and reading this comment is safe and will be, and gaining the right information and forming the right opinions. You can't solve violence with violence. Thank you Amanda, for having this video reposted like this, for everyone to see once again- because this is truly an issue that seems to be overlooked in the worst times.
This album itself is timeless and i feel sorrowful for those who can't hear its genius. This album helped define my teenage years and it still resonates today.
i remember when who killed amanda palmer first came out. its crazy how time has both changed so much and so little in that time span
I said it on Patreon and I'll say it again. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Hi Amanda, I am a student from China, I just knew you recently from TH-cam but I liked your work a lot. Hope you can have a great year as always!
I remember tragedy hit our school when a beloved teacher committed suicide. I remember columbine triggering bullies to call in fake threats and say they were other students. I remember all the lack of empathy and disregard for life over the years and it kills me inside. Then I remember the people who do care, like you, who spread the message of love and honestly it makes life seem just a little less hopeless and I am so grateful.
When I saw this video 2 years ago I was oblivious to what this video symbolized. Now that I am 15 and I now realize what this video is, I am happy to see Amanda speak out against school shootings. There have been many threats where at my school and at a middle school near me right now. Even though it's scary, I won't accept it, but I would do everything in my power to stop another one from happening. Even if I die doing it
QuinnIsEarth the video was obviously about school shootings though?
ultragaze Well it is but my first time seeing this video I wasn't sure what Columbine was. No one ever talked about it and no one ever told me. I really feel like in schools there should be more safety precautions instead of the ones we have now. The other day I had an assembly about safety and if this ever happened to my school and the whole time there was a security guard on his phone! If I have to leave my life in his hands just because he didn't want to pay attention to this 30 minute assembly, I'm doomed
Oh Amanda....I started weeping in the first 3 seconds.... this is so heartbreaking beautiful
i love you. thank you. xx
🖤🖤🖤
Same. It was incredibly touching, and, to be completely honest, I don't know why teens and young adults do these kinds of things, I mean, what happened to the want for world peace?
holy shit wow. I vividly remember when WKAP first came out. I was in 8th grade and I made an afternoon of watching all the videos and I remember this one making me feel so scared and uncomfortable when I first saw it, but looking back, that may have been the first time I can remember actively thinking- "maybe you need to sit in discomfort. maybe *why*it makes you uncomfortable is a more important point". So thank you Amanda for teaching me in that moment that discomfort and fear are valuable emotions that need yo be examined on a personal level and can spark real action. You rock, I'm glad my HS senior quote was from you
Amanda, I don't remember how I came across it, but I saw this video a long time ago. I lived in Colorado and was twenty one when Columbine happened. It hit me hard then in the hysteria following the shooting, when everybody was blaming Marilyn Manson and the stupid video games. Today, my kids are twelve and fourteen. I see my daughter and her friends in those halls, and it's terrifying.
Seeing this again, eighteen years after the original tragedy, with the same message and hearing more names in the space behind the music... knowing that we still have the same basic problems, the same to lose, and have done practically nothing... this guts me.
Seeing it again after a different tragedy... this makes a whole new point beyond the first, effectively and urgently.
Thank you for this, Amanda. I love you and what you do.
It means so much to see someone with talent use it to make art and statements that need to be made.
This hurts to watch again and really get the horror of the video.
I hope for people who live in the USA that the problem with guns will be solved, this has to stop...
If you want to find out what the actual problem is, which would likely morph into a different deadly form if you attempt a wrong solution, I'd suggest starting with interviews of the murderers and of the wannabes who were apprehended in time. There has been a lot of talk, but very little understanding.
I finally had the courage to listen to and watch this. From an alumni of MSD and a fan for 16 years, thank you so much for this.
As a non-American, I still felt the students and the pain and fear so much in this video. It's simple and beautiful and tragic and I deeply hope that the mass shooting will be the last one Americans will hae to face and that changes will come. The world is crying and hoping for you. Love.
Beautiful, tragic! Thank you for making this!
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL...thank you for making the time to do something to make an impact so quickly. I’m unfortunately in a situation where I have nothing to donate, and unable to attend marches for health reasons. But I beg that those that CAN, DO.
Amazing Idea to remix it, I've always loved this song and fealt the sadness, adding the names really makes more of an impact still! I think you're an amazing person, artist, and I appreciate how much you want to improve the world
Thank you Amanda
You're an angel
Oh, this completely shattered my heart. Oh my freaking goodness. Thank you for being so amazing, Amanda.
Amanda, watching this today created some kind of space-time disruption for me and transported me back to the first time I heard this song. It somehow hurts more today... :( thank you for giving me the contemplative moment. I love you and hope these horrors stop...
And yet another one. My soul hurts.
Giving me shivers and floods of tears.
brb, sobbing. Thank you for this.
strength through music, years later.
thanks Amanda. so sorry this is our reality.
R.I.P. to all those lost in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
It was powerful then and even more powerful now. Thank you
Love it Amanda !!! 💖
From the safety of a country that made the right choices when confronted by these same challenges I send my love and care and hope that the USA can grow into a safer more compassionate society that makes better choices than it has so far.
I am so sorry for the harm that has been done to the young and yet I hope that as the survivors reach voting age they take over the political process and change the world.
The problem is society... not the tools which are utilized by a sick mind(s)...
Thank you
Amazing. And heartbreaking.
Being born on April 20 sucks. I share my birthday with Hitler and the Colombine Massacre. And then there's all the idiots going 420 huh huh huh... without realising that referred to a time, not a date.
This song is beautiful... but doesn't change my wish to have a different b'day.
aw man. my birthday is the 30th - it's "all witches day". happy birthday a couple months early. fuck it. it'll be a beautiful day. xxx
I'm sorry to hear about that. It must suck. *hugs*
I hate my birthday date as well and chose to celebrate my birthday on a different day. My family accepted my wish and most of my friends don't even know it's not my real one since it's been a few years. Maybe that would be an option for you, too? Otherwise as Amanda says, fuck it. Love!
yodasears2 I'm 2 days after...Earth Day...the holiday nobody cares about
that day is hard for me too. It is my father's birthday and he passed away when I was 17. It's been really hard. Father's day is right around my birthday too so I feel like the pain continues. Know you're amazing and worth the happiest birthdays, always. ♡
Right back at you Emily. You have my condolences; I hope that the fond memories buoy you through the hard times.
Why was this removed? But not gonna lie made me cry
Thank you Amanda. 😢
Beautiful
Why are the Columbine shooters mentioned by name but not the others?
*never again*
I weep, I weep.
ENOUGH. :'(
2020 vote for your life.
Lyrics please.
I mean the new ones at least.
I also really want the new lyrics. I can only find the old ones online.
The song lyrics haven't changed. The names you're hearing in the background are the kids who died in Parkland.
So... You think the names are not a part of lyrics this way?!
The full list of names she's reading is in her blog post.
blog.amandapalmer.net/strength-music-2018-official-thing/
id like to see some blood :,
remind me of ( Elfen Lied ) when Lucy walking and killing without touching no ones .