New Mix: Margo Price, renforshort, The Mountain Goats, Tianna Esperanza, more
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Margo Price: "Fight to Make It (feat. Mavis Staples & Adia Victoria)" (Single)
2. The Mountain Goats: "Training Montage," from Bleed Out
3. Tianna Esperanza: "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince" (Single)
4. renforshort: "i miss myself," from dear amelia
5. Wilder Maker: "Against Numbers (feat. Katie Von Schleicher)," from Male Models
6. Indigo Sparke: "Pressure in My Chest," from Hysteria
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| 0:00.0 | For MPR Music, your connected doll songs considered on Bob Boylin with a potent message from Margot Price. |
| 0:07.0 | The song's called Fight to Make It and it features a voices of Mavis Staples and a Dia Victoria. |
| 0:14.0 | There's also quite a story to this song. |
| 0:17.0 | Fight to Make It is a song my husband's songwriting partner, Jeremy Ivy, had started writing. |
| 0:24.0 | And as soon as he showed it to me, I knew that I wanted to help him finish it and make it my own. |
| 0:30.0 | It's been recorded for probably over a year now and the original plan was for Ronnie Spector to sing on it. |
| 0:38.0 | And Ronnie had actually written me several really beautiful handwritten letters expressing how much she loved the song. |
| 0:46.0 | But she just couldn't get her parts recorded before she passed away. |
| 0:50.0 | I invited a Dia Victoria to help me finish all the background vocals on it. |
| 0:57.0 | And after Ronnie passed, I reached out to Mavis and was just blown away that she agreed to add her voice. |
| 1:07.0 | I know that when we sing together, we are stronger and I am inspired by her wisdom, her strength, her art, her activism. |
| 1:17.0 | And incredibly grateful that Mavis Staples contributed to the song. |
| 1:22.0 | I think our rights are being stripped away here in America and the right to reproductive health in this country has become a luxury for the wealthy. |
| 1:33.0 | The United States has the highest maternal death rate of any other developed country. |
| 1:38.0 | And Black women in particular are three times more likely to experience maternal mortality than white women. |
| 1:48.0 | I don't think this should be a political issue. I don't think it should be a religious issue. This is a human rights issue. |
| 1:56.0 | You can't win on the very first try. You've got to learn to follow the story's path. |
| 2:17.0 | They say a woman's face is in a hole. Before she disappeared, then she proved they were wrong. |
| 2:35.0 | You've got to fight to make it. You've got to fight to make it. You've got to fight to make it. |
| 2:51.0 | It's hard to understand what it's like to be born with a losing hand. |
| 3:07.0 | You've got to fight to make it. You've got to fight to make it. |
| 3:27.0 | You've got to fight to make it. You've got to fight to make it. |
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