What`s Going On was made for the Rio + 20 Global Youth Music Contest, you can watch it and upload your own videos here: http://www.global-rockstar.net/whats-going-on/
The Story: Denis represents humanity. He is walking angry and upset at the greed, selfishness and darkness of humanity. He is walking through a cold urban car-park, full of empty cars of blind consumers sleep-walking through their life in the nearby shopping mall. He catches glimpses of a dancer that represents freedom, love for humanity and purity from rose petals that fall down onto him from above. When he looks for the dancer, he cannot find her. So begins his search through the bleak landscape, through the snow and cold to try and find what he and humanity have lost. Here begins his search, for his higher-self, he can only find it by singing and speaking (rapping) from his heart. It is like humanity, we can only find the love through our higher soul expression. Music is the way we can express the love from our soul. In the closing scene he sees that the dancer, that is higher self has been transforming the gold coins, representing greed, into love. This is the way humanity needs to go. Find ways to transform from our greed to love, through our highest expressions of our soul. Music can be this expression of our soul.
The Story: Denis represents humanity. He is walking angry and upset at the greed, selfishness and darkness of humanity. He is walking through a cold urban car-park, full of empty cars of blind consumers sleep-walking through their life in the nearby shopping mall. He catches glimpses of a dancer that represents freedom, love for humanity and purity from rose petals that fall down onto him from above. When he looks for the dancer, he cannot find her. So begins his search through the bleak landscape, through the snow and cold to try and find what he and humanity have lost. Here begins his search, for his higher-self, he can only find it by singing and speaking (rapping) from his heart. It is like humanity, we can only find the love through our higher soul expression. Music is the way we can express the love from our soul. In the closing scene he sees that the dancer, that is higher self has been transforming the gold coins, representing greed, into love. This is the way humanity needs to go. Find ways to transform from our greed to love, through our highest expressions of our soul. Music can be this expression of our soul.
The Background: Denis is a 17 year old from Kicevo in Macedonia living in Austria. He has been working through the themes of Rio + 20 with workshops with myself and Ilker Cirakoglu found that many of the issues led back to the same thing-wealth distribution. So, Denis and I worked on some lyrics that would express his ideas. We put together, with a bit of German and English translation, and working late into the night :-) this song: “What`s Going On”?
He explores themes of greed, government debt, austerity packages and poverty. He is not only raising our awareness about these issues, but also he is offering solutions with his rap that explores love and harmony with each other instead of raging wars. This video was directed by Gerald Schober and made as a collaborative project with the Klapp festival, Thinc, Spektrum and StreuSalz. In the workshop and through the music, a group of teenage girls became aware of the Rio + 20 issues. They worked with Denis and Gerald to come up with rich symbolism that expresses these themes of transforming greed into love.
He explores themes of greed, government debt, austerity packages and poverty. He is not only raising our awareness about these issues, but also he is offering solutions with his rap that explores love and harmony with each other instead of raging wars. This video was directed by Gerald Schober and made as a collaborative project with the Klapp festival, Thinc, Spektrum and StreuSalz. In the workshop and through the music, a group of teenage girls became aware of the Rio + 20 issues. They worked with Denis and Gerald to come up with rich symbolism that expresses these themes of transforming greed into love.
Hello
what`s going on in this world
Hello
what counts in this world
With
money and greed
Without
enough to feed
Get
past your blind confusion
This
world of consumption
We
want to bind for the good of humanity
Instead
we find ourselves in a bed of insanity
So
look around
It
all the same in this world
Look
around, its so frozen this world
Take
it out take it out your voice
Make
it right make it right your choice
Rap
people
are wrong, no body to trust,
They
only think “self self”
They
get like dust
Why
don`t u wake up,
Get
Together, Make up
You`re
time is up
feel
the love tonight
love
humans alike
things
get better
if
you don`t fight
you
keep what matters
wake
up to your life
instead
we go war
but
really we can do more
Capitalist
Class
Delivers
Austerity
For
our sake?
Come
on that`s insanity
They
take all our cash
Until
we`re smashed
We
need to live together
Not
so separate forever
An
individualistic mind-set
It`s
a failure don`t forget
We
are one
Like
sisters and brothers
Feel
the power of one
Recently there has been some investigations into austerity measures that in fact they are counter productive, just as Denis was singing about. You can read more about this here: are austerity measures necessary?
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