Just Culture #4: The Greatest Night in Pop (feat. Macklemore) in review
Reviewing the Netflix Documentory The Greatest Night in Pop in Review with parallells drawn with Macklemores recent release.
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There are events in history lost to time, stories untold to the masses, and events all forgotten if it weren’t for the fact that someone remembers to tell them the right way. The Greatest Night in Pop is one of those stories. Found on Netflix, it’s the origin of the idea that artists can make a difference in the modern world through their art, even in the most capitalistic settings. Music artists can be more than Just Artists (pun intended).
Entertaining and heartfelt, it beautifully seeps through history and gives you a realistic picture of what the business was like then. It makes you wonder if it isn’t all that different, even if technology has made it easier to contact people.
To get the biggest stars in the world to be in one place simultaneously, you’d likely still need an event, or could you do this with 40 live streams? Nonetheless, a documentary like this makes a song come to life again in new ways.
With this thought, a similar song seeking to make an impact is Macklemore’s Hinds Hall 2 (feat MC Abdul, Amer Zahr), with the Palestinians featuring version two. It’s a natural step up in meaningfulness.
What a way to live up to “You have a voice and a platform, so use it” without straying outside your artistic style.
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