Tag: songs that soundtracked the aids crisis
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songs that soundtracked the AIDS crisis: sinéad o’connor’s “nothing compares to you”
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is she a skinhead or is she not? why is she bald? why is she all about? these were the questions i remember people asking upon the release of the video for sinéad o’connor’s “nothing compares 2 u.” without any historical context, these questions seem odd, but with sleekly produced…
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songs that songtracked the AIDS Crisis: aqua’s “barbie girl”
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The first time I heard the euro-pop sensation Aqua’s Barbie Girl was in the summer of 1997, at a party We The People organized in Clementon Park, New Jersey. The DJ was mixing bona fide house hits with contemporary jams. I remember this so vividly because I watched someone do…
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Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis: Jody Watley’s “When A Man Loves A Woman”
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in november 1993, pop music architect jody watley released her fourth solo album “intimacy.” a departure from the r&b/dance oriented sound that was prominent on her previous albums, “intimacy” was a boundary-defying body of work that in some ways predated the neo-soul movement that would take hold a few years…
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Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis: Miquel Brown’s “So Many Men, So Little Time”
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“So many men, so little timeHow can I choose,So many men, so little timeHow can I choose” On March 14, 1983, Larry Kramer published his now historic essay entitled “1,112 and Counting” in a bi-weekly gay newspaper, The New York Native. The blistering essay, which also served as an urgent call to…
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Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis: Madonna’s “In This Life”
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Picture it! America 1992. AIDS becomes the number one cause of death for men 25 – 44 years old. Activists are still in a fierce battle with big pharma and the US government to provide access to HIV drug trials. And the moral panic about sex, women’s bodies, and AIDS…