The election of Doug Jones as the first openly gay senator from Alabama has renewed a debate about the role of music in political activism.
In a piece for NPR, singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor says that while she's long believed that music can " sustain people, and if not change things itself, make change conceivable," the election of Jones, a Democrat, has changed her perspective in a big way.
"People who for years had been fighting their own blue battles in a famously red state had met; their efforts, and their potential, became tangible to each other," she writes.
"I am telling this story not to endorse a party or a candidate (who's no longer in office, by the way), but to show how awareness and empowerment spreads at the grassroots level."
Trainor, who grew up in Alabama, says that when she visited the state ahead of the election, she was struck by how many different groups had come together to fight for LGBT rights.
"People who for years had been fighting their own blue battles in a famously red state had met; their efforts, and their potential, became tangible to each other," she writes.
"Music is one way visibility can go beyond the symbolic and bolster vital connections, but only when those who make
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