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Lost Notes: Groupies

Lost Notes S2 Ep. 8: Song of a Gun

Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7721 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As long as there have been guns, there have been songs about guns. But American culture's relationship with guns is changing. Does popular music reflect that? We take a look at the history of music's relationships with guns, and gun control activism, to find out.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I remember running into you outside the Miley Cyrus show, and it was maybe five days after the Paris attacks.

0:12.2

And I remember you being really emotional about it.

0:18.7

Do you remember how it felt to be at that show so soon in the wake after the Paris attacks?

0:25.9

Yeah.

0:27.7

I think that that was in particular a show where it was just the vibe was over-the-top fun and celebratory and just crazy everything. But then looming is like,

0:41.9

well, any second someone could walk in and...

0:47.8

That's Dana Meyerson. She's a publicist and artist manager, talking about how after

0:53.8

Las Vegas, Paris, Orlando,

0:57.2

being at a show felt very different.

1:00.2

It's a fear that a lot of people live with daily, everywhere.

1:05.4

It was like, okay, if someone comes in, like, where would I hide and where would I go?

1:10.6

And how do I help people?

1:13.9

All of a sudden, there's a secondary vibe with the space, which is it could be used as a place of attack.

1:23.6

It was sort of the beginning of a shift in the way that I feel now,

1:29.7

anytime I go into a public space,

1:32.3

now I feel terrified to go to a festival

1:34.1

because that seems like such an obvious target

1:36.2

when I went to Laalapalooza last year, post-Vagas,

1:39.1

and seeing people with binoculars looking up into the hotel rooms,

1:43.6

looking for a shooter. So it's this sort of

1:46.5

like true nightmare that now exist in real life. And like Dana, when I'm at shows, I wonder,

1:55.8

am I safe? Is everyone here safe? But have I ever acted on that concern?

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