“I Can’t Breathe”, inspired by the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, whose death sparked riots in the United States last year, won “Song of the Year” at the 63rd Grammy Awards.
The singer and songwriter HER won the Grammy’s Song of the Year on Sunday night for her song titled “I Can’t Breathe”, inspired by Floyd’s death. While arrested by the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota last year, Floyd said “I can’t breathe” several times during the arrest.
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The lyrics of the song include the verses:
Trying times all the time
Destruction of minds, bodies and human rights
No bloodline, whipped and confined
This is American pride
It is to justify a genocide
Romanticizing theft and bloodshed
This made America the land of the free
To take a black life, land of the free
Bring a weapon to a peaceful fight for civil rights
You are insensitive to pulling triggers in innocent lives
Because that’s how we got here in the first place
These wounds sink deeper than the bullet
Your skilled hands could never reach
Generations and generations of pain, fear and anxiety
Equality is walking without intuition
Saying that the protector and the killer are wearing the same uniform
The revolution is not televised
The perception of the media is forced down the throats of closed minds
So it’s in the headlines
And generations of supremacy resulting in your ignorant and privileged eyes
In a pre-Grammy interview, HER told Entertainment Tonight that he considers the song “the soundtrack to a movement” in reference to the protests and riots of the Black Lives Matter that took place last year after the footage of Floyd’s death going viral online .
“I mean, it has been the soundtrack to a movement, you know, one of the many songs and I’m happy to be part of the story now,” she added about the track, which is running for the GRAMMY for Best Song.
The jury selection for Derek Chauvin, one of four former Minneapolis police officers accused of the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, started on Tuesday and, as the Associated Press reports, a juror “was looking forward, concerned about the high emotion surrounding the case. One feared that his family might be the target. The person who worried about the division of the case was fired, as well as the potential juror who feared that his family could be the target ”.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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