“ We've been writing songs like this since the 1980s and they're still as relevant as ever says Christopher Dowd of Fishbone.
Fishbone founding member Christopher Dowd, who plays keyboards and trombone in the band, knows he should have written a song about Donald Trump nearly a decade ago, when Trump announced he was running for office. the presidential election. Now, as Election Day approaches and Trump is once again in the running, Fishbone releases “ Racist Piece of Shit ”, aka “ RxPxOxS “. In this song, Fishbone talks about the Proud Boys, Kid Rock and ” crazy orange king »… and all this is just in the first verse of the song whose chorus says: “ Oh, you're just a racist piece of shit “.
“ The timing of this release couldn't be more perfectexplains Dowd to WECB by email. With five days until the election, if you're undecided, maybe hearing this song will trigger a subconscious thought about who might win and what that would mean for the country and the world. A person in a leadership position can automatically make you guilty by association. Do you want to be associated and represented by a person with open racist tendencies or by someone who is not? »
Donald Trump has been in Christopher Dowd's crosshairs since the late 1980s, when he took out a full-page ad in the Daily Newscalling for the reinstatement of the death penalty to punish “ Central Park Five », five young black people accused of having raped and attempted to murder a jogger in Central Park. The men were later exonerated of the crime and sued Trump for defamation this year.
“ Fishbone is made up of six black people who grew up in Los Angeles during the Daryl Gates era. We knew damn well that (the allegations against the Central Park Five) were bullshit.he explains. And that's when Donald Têtedecon published, before the trial, a full page in a major New York newspaper. (…) I knew this feeling intimately having survived gang violence, drugs, an unemployed family struggling to provide for itself. (…) So, at the community level, I understood. »
The musician explains that he mentioned Kid Rock in the song because he considers the latter to be a “ culture vulture “. “ Just look at the video he posted after Trump's assassination attempt: “If you go after Trump, you go after me.” It was hilarious… Get lost, seriously. »
Christopher Dowd hopes that a song like “ RxPxOxS » will spark discussions and critical thinking. “ Musicians and artists who use their platform to speak their truth have always existed. When it concerns a white person, we speak of a “protest song”, and when it concerns a person of color, we speak of “aggression”. So we tried to put it to a beat that makes you dance while thinking. …The sad thing about all of this is that we've been writing songs like these since the 1980s and they're still as relevant today as they were then. Maybe that will change soon. »
Fishbone plans to release a new album in 2025, tentatively titled Stockholm Syndromewith others first-person observations on the current state of the world “.
