![]() ![]() In "Best Is Yet to Come," which Blacc performed for "Studio A," the artist says that he offers advice to himself, as well as to listeners. Just wanted to tell the story of the common individual." ![]() "Others are songs I've written inspired by events that happen in society. "A lot of the songs that I performed today are new songs and some of them relate to my family and experiences I've had with kids, my wife," Blacc tells KCET in his on-camera interview. Blacc explained to KCET that he tries to use universal themes when he writes songs so that they can translate across borders. Amongst them was "Dandelion Down," a story about a father and son that he says he plays for his own child. Low Leaf Talks About Her Space Travels and Healing Musicĭuring his time at Studio A, Blacc performed some new tunes. "I'm on a major label and my intention is to sell records, but I write songs from the state of mind of writing a great song that will increase my chances of making it into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, because you don't get there by selling records, you get there by making great songs." "My music is for sure commercial," he says. You might know him best from his collaboration with DJ/producer Avicii, "Wake Me Up," which was a monumental hit back in 2013. ![]() "I see what's happening across the entire landscape from commercial to independent music," says the L.A.-based singer-songwriter off-camera, "and I have a feeling that commercial music will become like what happened in the '60s and '70s where there is more political and social-minded music."īlacc is on the commercial side of music spectrum. Are we heading towards an era like the 1960s and early 1970s, where musicians large and small are using their voices - their instruments - to spread the call for political and social change?īlacc thinks that might be the case. ![]() For "Studio A," singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc performed new music and a cover of Joni Mitchell's 1970 classic "Big Yellow Taxi." It was a fitting union for a contemporary pop artist who is also an activist for various different causes to take on a '70s pop tune that deals with disregard for the environment.įrom human rights to environmental justice, the call for all citizens to speak up has grown stronger and that could impact music too. ![]()
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