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Music Videos, Allied Casualties, and California Elections
I have had an uncommonly connected, concurrent string of thoughts. One of those tangential cerebral flowages, rather like a dream sequence, that makes no narrative sense out of context, or with no insight regarding the links as they play from episode to episode. The contributing factors are these - Maroon 5 has a new video; today, June 6 is the 74th anniversary of D-Day; California's primary elections were yesterday.
As those of you that know me best utter under your breath "time to back off the news radio a bit", please allow me to connect the dots.
Maroon 5, Cardi B, and a cast of noteworthy celebrities have collaborated on a hugely successful music video entitled 'Girls Like You'. This one isn't normal huge, it is viral huge. To the tune of 47 million views in seven days. So successful that those of us that did not know of its existence at the ripe old age of one week, must count ourselves as the sadly and un-repairably out of touch. A link to the video is below, if you are not familiar you should check it out. I saw it for the first time yesterday. Upon first glance I thought it a very nicely done piece that celebrates the lives and contributions of modern women. But wait, there's more.
I was reminded by the national news early today that June 6 is the 74th anniversary of D-Day. 6,603 Americans were among the more than 10,000 Allied casualties that day. There are modern-day unsung heroes at Normandy. They are the French citizens, mostly women, who voluntarily tend the graves of those 6,603 Americans. These women are themselves the widows, daughters and nieces of fallen Allied soldiers. Indeed they too are heroes. For some reason this caused me to replay the Maroon 5 video, its significance diminished in my mind. Yes, it celebrated women. Yet where are the unsung heroes? And where are the quiet heroes, those women who are the judges, physicians, and professors? They should be there too. Perhaps, Adam Levine, you missed the mark. But wait, there is even more.
The results are in from yesterday's primary elections in California. This one state alone will be sending a lot more women to Washington in 2019 than it ever has. Dozens. From both parties. And, yes, this precipitated a third visit to the Maroon 5 video. The unsung heroes were there, quiet heroes on their backs and holding doors open for high profile voices. High profile voices that surely will contribute to convince folks that it might be a good idea to send more women to Washington in 2019.
A curious thing, is it not, where this will all lead?
I have had an uncommonly connected, concurrent string of thoughts. One of those tangential cerebral flowages, rather like a dream sequence, that makes no narrative sense out of context, or with no insight regarding the links as they play from episode to episode. The contributing factors are these - Maroon 5 has a new video; today, June 6 is the 74th anniversary of D-Day; California's primary elections were yesterday.
As those of you that know me best utter under your breath "time to back off the news radio a bit", please allow me to connect the dots.
Maroon 5, Cardi B, and a cast of noteworthy celebrities have collaborated on a hugely successful music video entitled 'Girls Like You'. This one isn't normal huge, it is viral huge. To the tune of 47 million views in seven days. So successful that those of us that did not know of its existence at the ripe old age of one week, must count ourselves as the sadly and un-repairably out of touch. A link to the video is below, if you are not familiar you should check it out. I saw it for the first time yesterday. Upon first glance I thought it a very nicely done piece that celebrates the lives and contributions of modern women. But wait, there's more.
I was reminded by the national news early today that June 6 is the 74th anniversary of D-Day. 6,603 Americans were among the more than 10,000 Allied casualties that day. There are modern-day unsung heroes at Normandy. They are the French citizens, mostly women, who voluntarily tend the graves of those 6,603 Americans. These women are themselves the widows, daughters and nieces of fallen Allied soldiers. Indeed they too are heroes. For some reason this caused me to replay the Maroon 5 video, its significance diminished in my mind. Yes, it celebrated women. Yet where are the unsung heroes? And where are the quiet heroes, those women who are the judges, physicians, and professors? They should be there too. Perhaps, Adam Levine, you missed the mark. But wait, there is even more.
The results are in from yesterday's primary elections in California. This one state alone will be sending a lot more women to Washington in 2019 than it ever has. Dozens. From both parties. And, yes, this precipitated a third visit to the Maroon 5 video. The unsung heroes were there, quiet heroes on their backs and holding doors open for high profile voices. High profile voices that surely will contribute to convince folks that it might be a good idea to send more women to Washington in 2019.
A curious thing, is it not, where this will all lead?
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