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Climate Protest Karaoke

Karaoke performance, workshop, concert

In our project, we have changed parts of the lyrics of popular songs so that they can help us cope with the negative emotions that we experience when facing the climate crisis. Hits that we hear on the radio usually tell about broken heart. Only a slight intervention, and they suddenly become protest songs that can help us handle the burden of our times. We reclaim the music that belongs to the commercialised, capitalist culture to give voice to our collective anger and shed our tears together with the Earth.

By singing the songs we have known from our teenage years, we transform nostalgia for the past youth into sadness for the now irreversible climate change.

 

The project debuted at the Forum of the Future of Culture in 2019 and was also presented as a part of art residency at the Department of Presence of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The project functions as a karaoke playlist on YT.

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Karaoke room, Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, Japan, 2023

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Selected song list:

  • ABBA "S.O.S."

  • Kayah & Bregovic "Ziemia jest w potrzebie"

  • Britney Spears "Toxic"

  • 4 Non Blondes "What's Up"

  • Gloria Gaynor "I Won't Survive"

  • Shakira "Objection"

  • Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball"

  • Billie Eilish "Bad Guys"

Britney Spears - Toxic (song example playlist)

Baby, can't you see, I'm calling

Human like you should wear a warning

It's dangerous, we’re falling

There's no escape, I can't wait

We need to act, we should do it

You're dangerous, I loathe it

 

Too high

Can't come down

It’s getting hot

Nearly all year round -

Do you feel it now?

 

Our faith in the growth is killing us

You're toxic, we’re slippin' under

With a taste of a poison paradise

We’re addicted to you

Don't you know that you're toxic?

And I loath what you do

Don't you know that you're toxic?

 

It's getting late

To give you up

We took a sip

From the plastic cup

Slowly, it's taking over us

Oh,

The faith in the growth is killing us

You're toxic, we’re slippin' under

With a taste of a poison paradise

We’re addicted to you

Don't you know that you're toxic?

And I loath what you do

Don't you know that you're toxic?

Don't you know that you're toxic?

 

Taste of your lips

I'm on a ride

You're toxic I'm slippin' under

With a taste of a poison paradise

I'm addicted to you

Don't you know that you're toxic?

With the taste of your lips

I'm on a ride

You're toxic I'm slippin' under

With a taste of the poison paradise

I'm addicted to you

Don't you know that you're toxic?

 

Intoxicate me now

With your growing now

I think we’ve had enough

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