Anohni<\/a>\u2018s 2017 debut album of the same name. To close out, they returned to My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross with \u201cIt Must Change.\u201d Anohni and the Johnsons stretched their three-song set across over 20 minutes.<\/p>\n\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI want the record to be useful. I learned with HOPELESSNESS that I can provide a soundtrack that might fortify people in their work, in their activism, in their dreaming and decision-making. I can sing of an awareness that makes others feel less alone, people for whom the frank articulation of these frightening times is not a source of discomfort but a cause for identification and relief,\u201d Anohni said ahead of the album in 2023. \u201cWe are each moving through massive impersonal systems that we feel powerless to change. And yet we\u2019re being asked in this moment to pull back the curtain and recognize these systems for what they are \u2013 not the preordained will of a god, but something we created over centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe continued, \u201cIf we can\u2019t do this collectively, we will forfeit our remaining ability to influence our trajectory. We have to dismantle systems that are destructive, and yet upon which many of us are dependent. Whether it\u2019s because of malevolence, or fear, or addiction\u2026 ultimately it\u2019s been one big survival strategy. We\u2019ve never been faced with a challenge this consequential before as a species.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The musician performed “Why Am I Alive Now,” “Hopelessness,” and “It Must Change” Anohni and the Johnsons brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5025,49,48,75,341,5026],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-anohni","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-npr-tiny-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}