![]() We have no wiggle room to begin with, and now we have a hole to dig out of. And despite a huge rally from so many of you leading up to the deadline, we still came up a bit short on the whole. ![]() The short of it: Last year, we had to cut $1 million from our budget so we could have any chance of breaking even by the time our fiscal year ended in June. It is astonishingly hard keeping a newsroom afloat these days, and we need to raise $253,000 in online donations quickly, by October 7. There’s nothing wrong with songs that operate in those traditional ranges, but sometimes we want pop music that lets us feel our anger and pride as intensely as we feel love.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Runway is venturing beyond pop’s standard emotional register: the highs and lows of crushes and falling in and out of love. In a tweeted statement, Runway shared the story behind the song: “When I was younger I couldn’t hack the amount of shade thrown at my skin tone from the playgrounds, to the boys at the bus stops after school that were equally as black, to every TV show, every music video, every movie that insinuated black was not beautiful! I made a terrible mistake messing around with bleaching chemicals I knew nothing about at a young age, in attempts to silence the hate.” She’s versatile, too, sliding from lyrics delivered at hyperspeed into a churchy chorus. “Who say I should turn the fuck down? Who say I ain’t this bitch when the lights go out?” she spits with an accuracy-it’s quick, on beat, and clear as day-that rivals the likes of veterans like Missy Elliott or Nicki Minaj. An alarm-like urgency to the beats underlies her delivery. The rawness of both the production and the message works in Runway’s favor. It’s in “2ON,” however, that Runway locates a pride in herself unlike most of what’s on offer in cookie-cutter pop songs. Runway originally hails from the London borough of Hackney and has only two other songs out, 2016’s “ Butterfly” and 2017’s “ What Do I Tell My Friends.” Both of these are excellent, and they channel much of the same energy and loudness that make “2ON” such a powerhouse. It’s also what the pop music needs right now. This week: “2ON” by Bree Runway (Virgin EMI Records, 2019) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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