Tom Morello Assembles Dan Reynolds, Shea Diamond And The Bloody Beetroots For Protest Song
Friday, 03 July 2020
Written by Spencer Lawes
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has released a new protest track, Stand Up.
Inspired by a Black Lives Matter rally this June, Morello created Stand Up with the help of Imagine Dragons vocalist Dan Reynolds, American soul singer and transgender activist Shea Diamond and Italian dance project The Bloody Beetroots.
100% of the four artists’ proceeds will be donated to NAACP, Know Your Rights Camp, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
Aggressive in all the right ways, the track is fuelled by outrage at the recent and shocking incidents of inequality that have driven the Black Lives Matter movement. Each strum of Morello’s guitar and every utterance of Reynolds’ barbed vocals become banners to rally behind. Morello said:
“I grew up in the tiny lily white, archly conservative town of Libertyville, Illinois. When I was a kid, someone hung a noose in my family’s garage, there was occasional N-word calling, etc, etc. On June 6 of this year, there was a Black Lives Matter rally and march in that same town that drew over 1,000 people.
“I was so inspired that night, I reached out to Dan from Imagine Dragons. The Bloody Beetroots and I had conjured a slamming track and within 24 hours Dan had sent back a completed vocal. We got Shea Diamond, a Black transgender woman with a long history of activism, on the track and the coalition was complete.”
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