Mental Health Awareness Month
The self proclaimed King and Queen of Rock and Roll, Little Richard, passed away at the age of 87 this week. An inarguable icon in Rock who was a poor black bisexual rockstar from a small town in Georgia where it was against the rules to be any of those things. He burst onto the scene with two revolutionary albums that shot him and his outsized personality into superstardom and served as the inspiration for countless other artists. He released very little music after those initial works because he had a dream where he believed God instructed him to give up Rock and Roll. He immediately canceled the remaining stops on his tour, the plan he was supposed to be on a few days later for that tour crashed cementing his beliefs. He became a preacher, and although he continued to preform and released a few more songs, he never released the scope of music you would expect from an icon. I think he made the most of what he would consider his borrowed time from God and was an inspiration to people everywhere as an icon of music, gender, and sexuality.
Can’t Believe You Want to Leave
“Think of all the love we shared
And all the fun we had
And now you wanna leave
Don’t you know that it’d drive me mad”
Came Out Swinging
“I spent this year as a ghost
And I’m not sure where home is anymore”
Ghosting
“Tracing my anxiety
But I can’t make out the path I drew
Embracing my sobriety
But it doesn’t have a thing to do”
Older Than I Am
“Sometimes, I wish I could do something stupid
Be kinda reckless while I can
Say I don’t give a damn
But I’m older than I am”
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