Songs Giving Us (Much Needed) Life

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Talking about race can get real heavy, real fast. Listening to music is one way people have been lightening the mood and sorting through their feelings. So this week, we're sharing some of the songs that are giving all of us life during this especially taxing moment.

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0:00.0	La la la la la
0:03.7	Mimimimimi
0:07.5	La la la la la la
0:16.3	I'm ons responsibilities
0:18.0	I'm Jean-Demby
0:19.0	And this is COtewitch
0:20.1	From NPR
0:22.8	Chirin
0:23.7	Four score and seven podcasts ago
0:27.4	I can't do math but more like three hundred and seventeen
0:30.6	seventeen podcasts or more we started a little segment called songs giving us life the idea
0:36.8	For those of y'all who weren't rocking with us back then was that when things get a little heavy
0:41.8	Which you know is like all the time because we're talking about race
0:45.6	But we try to keep it not too heavy because we know that we are living this too
0:51.0	So we don't always want to be depressed and one of the ways that we try to do that is
0:56.0	You know with music with some music because music
1:01.0	Makes the people come together
1:03.8	Music
1:05.0	Makes the bush was
1:07.4	Music and anyway music it helps us and the rap of
1:11.4	Yeah music can help us sort through our feelings. It can help lighten our moves
1:17.0	It connects us to other people. There's nothing I've ever felt that hasn't been expressed by Shade
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