Loading ...Quincy Jones backs a Lebanese singer protesting the garbage crisis
At first, it’s a little weird to hear Quincy Jones talk about Lebanon’s garbage crisis. But an artist on the music legend’s label, Lebanese-American singer Xriss Jor, is melding the two worlds together.
Jor felt connected to the situation in Lebanon and decided to do something about it: She made a cover of Jackson’s “Care About Us,” tweaked to fit the ongoing garbage crisis and all the politics wrapped inside it.
“When I saw the garbage situation I started saying in my head, ‘Enough is enough of this garbage,'” Jor told Al Bawaba. “Then I remembered that Michael Jackson’s song ‘Care About Us’ starts with a kid screaming, ‘Enough is enough of this garbage.’ I realized that this song is exactly what is going on. It fit perfectly.”
Clips of piled garbage and bloody protests play in the music video as Jor blends clever quips about the crisis in Lebanon into Jackson’s famous lyrics.
For a lot of young people, the lack of any real solution for the garbage crisis just one, very physical sign of a much larger problem within the Lebanese government. And that’s the #YouStink campaign behind Jor’s latest video.
Jor shot into the limelight after wowing judges on the debut series of The Voice (Arabia). In 2013 she impressed will.i.am, Timbaland and Quincy Jones in a Dubai Music Week Talent Search. Jones signed her onto his label to produce her debut single later that year.
“The people are the root of this country,” Jor said. “It’s not the leaders who make things happen, we’re never sure what really goes on behind closed doors. And the police officers are people too. It’s always the people in power who are corrupt because they want more, and more, and more. Power is a drug.”
Source: www.albawaba.com