Songs For The Struggling Artist

I had to travel to Boston to get my passport renewed last week for this trip to Canada I'm on right now so I couldn't record the podcast in advance as I'd planned so I'm posting a replay/rebroadcast of my most popular blogcast. Next week I'll re-post one of my least popular - just for balance. I'll be back on the regular schedule when I get back to NYC. For the episode: For the podcast version of the blog, I try and find a song to pair it with – a song that speaks to the content of the piece. For my piece about screaming, I searched for songs on the subject. There are a fair amount of songs with the word “scream” or “yell” in the title but almost all of them, I found, were by white guys. I found this phenomenon curious. Why are there so many scream songs by white men? What do white guys have to scream about?EVERYONE LISTENS TO ME WHEN I TALK!PEOPLE CLEAR A PATH FOR ME WHEN I WALK DOWN THE STREET!WHEN WOMEN MAKE 70 CENTS, I MAKE A DOLLAR!I AM AT THE CENTER OF MOST STORIES! To read more