{"id":90274,"date":"2017-04-10T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90274"},"modified":"2017-04-09T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T13:30:14","slug":"joan-baez-goes-viral-with-nasty-man-a-protest-song-for-the-trump-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/joan-baez-goes-viral-with-nasty-man-a-protest-song-for-the-trump-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Baez Goes Viral with ‘Nasty Man,’ a Protest Song for the Trump Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Here’s a little song\/about a man gone wrong\/while building up his evil empire”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Joan Baez performing in 2015. (Photo: Getty)<\/p><\/div>\n

6 Apr 2017 – <\/em>Joan Baez, protest singer of the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s, has gone viral with a protest song for today’s Trump era, called “Nasty Man.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The song features roses in the Rose Garden telling President Donald Trump that he “owes the Earth a pardon;” pokes fun at the president for his border wall plans and Melania Trump’s notable absence from the White House; and suggests that he “better talk to a shrink” for his “serious psychological disorders.”<\/p>\n

In the song, Baez also describes Trump finally falling into obsolescence: “That’s my little song\/about a man gone wrong.\/He’s nasty from his head to his feet.\/When the dirt on this man\/finally hits the fan,\/and no one gives a damn about his tweets,\/he’ll be finally and forever obsolete.”<\/p>\n

The song, which Baez described<\/a> to Rolling Stone <\/em>as “not a good song, but it will make people laugh,” has garnered over two million views since the singer posted<\/a> it to her Facebook page on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Watch Baez perform the song on YouTube here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AHQ7N9lEl_E<\/p>\n

Before the 2016 election, Baez hadn’t written a song in 25 years, notes<\/a> Rolling<\/em> Stone<\/em>‘s David Browne in a profile of the singer published Wednesday. Trump’s election prompted the new composition.<\/p>\n

“Baez’s importance was more than just musical,” Browne observes of Baez’s storied career. “She became the moral center of the anti-war and social-justice movements that rose up in the Sixties. She sang at the 1963 March on Washington; opened the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, in Northern California; visited Vietnam during the war; and went to jail for 11 days for participating in a sit-in at a military induction center.”<\/p>\n

Baez, who is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday, has entered the contemporary protest fray multiple times since Trump’s election, performing at the Dakota Access Pipeline<\/a> protest camp in North Dakota and at several Women’s Marches <\/a>in January, according to<\/a> Deutsche Welle.<\/em><\/p>\n

The singer also took part in a Palo Alto, Calif., student protest against Trump after his election in November, telling<\/a> a reporter that she urges empathy in the time of Trump: “I think Trump and crew don’t have empathy. It’s just missing\u2014so that means that we need to have more,” Baez said.<\/p>\n

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