Amanda Palmer was doing the dishes while listening to Portishead (as you do) when the track ‘It’s A Fire’, from their seminal 1994 album ‘Dummy’, came on and she started “losing her shit” – taken off guard by how prescient and profound the song had become.“I heard the lyric ‘because this life is a farce / I can’t breathe in this mask… so breathe on, sister…‘ and I just just stopped,” Palmer tells NME. “I was stunned by the new application of those lyrics to these times, to COVID, to Black Lives Matter, to the emerging sisterhood that’s slowly uprooting the very, very rotting old system of racist and sexist hierarchy on this fragile globe.
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