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More Perfect

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4.8 • 14.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

This fall, More Perfect is doing something brand new: We’re making an album!

It’s called 27: The Most Perfect Album. We’ve partnered with some of the best musicians in the world— artists like Dolly Parton, Kevin Morby, Devendra Banhart, Aisha Burns, and more — to create songs inspired by the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Alongside the album, we’ll be launching SEASON THREE of our podcast, deep-diving into the history and resonance of the constitutional amendments with off-beat stories and lush sound.The album and podcast drop September 18, 2018. Get ready!

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0:00.0	Okay, it's Chad. This upcoming season is more perfect. Might be the most perfect yet.
0:08.4	All right, up the top of your head, can you tell me how many of admits there are to the American Constitution?
0:13.1	Ten, no land, my gate. No. Too many. Somewhere around ten. I know there are at least 25.
0:20.0	13? I think there's 18. Off you end, I don't know. That's really short. First Amendment.
0:25.6	The order of a word in the First Amendment is the life cycle of a democratic idea. Second Amendment.
0:31.7	It's taking us being shot in schools for people to be like, you know what, I'll give you the right to vote.
0:37.6	13th Amendment. There's a lot of this conversation that should have been settled already.
0:42.3	In 1865, when we passed the 13th Amendment, 19th Amendment.
0:47.9	Women have been fighting for the legal right to vote since the 1840s. Where did I pick that up?
0:54.0	Are you picked it up from history? How many amendments are there to the US Constitution?
1:00.1	Uh, 27. 27. 27? 27 for men.
1:14.7	For season three, it's more perfect. We're going to do an experiment. We're going to release
1:19.0	an album, an actual album of music inspired by the amendments to the United States Constitution.
1:28.9	People feature original music from musicians that include Dolly Parton,
1:34.1	Cash Doll, Caroline Shaw, DeVender Bandhart, many others.
1:43.0	27. The most perfect album. It's coming soon.
1:49.8	So, and all of the songs we released with audio linernets,
1:57.2	little funny, profound, sad, hilarious short stories that accompany each of the amendments
2:04.7	along with the songs. It all goes into the podcast starting September 18, 2018.

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