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Mickey Guyton | Photo credit: Frazer Harrison/ACMA2019/Getty Images for ACM By Antoinette Isama ·December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
Color Me Country, a bi-weekly Apple Music radio show helmed by singer and songwriter Rissi Palmer, gives listeners a needed reminder that country music is a mosaic of Black, Indigenous and Latinx histories that have been long ignored in the mainstream.
Palmer’s latest guest on the show is the now Grammy-nominated country singer Mickey Guyton, where they touch on her latest historic accomplishment in a music genre that’s left Black contributions gone too far unnoticed.
“We first bonded as a part of a sisterhood who have been baptized by fire in this industry. We understand what the other has been through,” Palmer tells ESSENCE in a statement. “I admire her boldness to stand in and speak her truth and I am dedicated to supporting her in any way. After the year she’s had, I wanted to provide a safe space for her, no pretense or performance necessary. You hear the Mickey I’ve come to know personally in this show.”
Rissi Palmer hosts Apple Music’s Color Me Country
In this lively conversation, you’ll learn how Guyton’s ballad “Black Like Me” is the first song by a Black woman to receive a Grammy nod in the country category in 45 years. The Pointer Sisters’ “Fairytale” was the hit to precede her. She also shares how she wouldn’t have made her way to Nashville if it wasn’t for Palmer, her path to motherhood, and what’s next for Black women in country music.
Check out some excerpts from their conversation below, and revisit the episode on Apple Music here.
Mickey on her historic Grammy nomination for the ‘Best Country Solo Performance’ category:
“For me, being a Black woman in the category that I’m in, this is bigger than just an award for me. This award is really for all Black women.”
Mickey Guyton performs onstage during the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry on September 16, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
On the unlikely path for “Black Like Me”
“I never thought that a song like ‘Black Like Me’ would ever see the light of day. I’ve sent that song to people and a lot of the common reaction was, ‘I need to sit with this for a minute. I’ll get back to you.’ … I was really trying to push that song and we had video plans for it. We had video plans for ‘What Are You Gonna Tell Her’ and then everything just shut down and it stopped. And for that song to have taken a life of its own in a pandemic where I can’t even leave my apartment, it’s just crazy. Literally, God has a plan. I haven’t done anything different other than open my mouth and speak out against racism and sexism and speaking up for people that can’t speak out for themselves.”
Mickey giving Rissi Palmer her flowers for encouraging her to pursue songwriting:
“I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, I would not have moved to Nashville had I not Googled Black female country singers and saw your face and saw you singing at a show, nervous, holding your heart and your guitar. Had I never seen that, I would have never made the move to Nashville. So you are the head majorette. I’m just following your lead and following how you’re leading in love, and showcasing—I discover artists because I’m seeing your page.”
On what’s next for Black women in country music:
“Well, I’ve learned one thing since all of this has gone on, that not only is it important for me to win, but it’s important for Black women to win. And the only way I truly believe that Black women can win is by bringing each other up. And it won’t work if it doesn’t. It’s not enough for just one of us to get through. It has to be a collective effort. And that is the path for the next Black girl, is for her to in fact, open her door for the next Black girl. And not only for her to embrace the next Black girl, but to embrace her Black people because they are important. And Black women are so important and we’re not always made to feel that way.”
TOPICS: apple music Color Me Country country music Mickey Guyton Rissi Palmer
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Mickey Guyton | Photo credit: Frazer Harrison/ACMA2019/Getty Images for ACM By Antoinette Isama ·December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
Color Me Country, a bi-weekly Apple Music radio show helmed by singer and songwriter Rissi Palmer, gives listeners a needed reminder that country music is a mosaic of Black, Indigenous and Latinx histories that have been long ignored in the mainstream.
Palmer’s latest guest on the show is the now Grammy-nominated country singer Mickey Guyton, where they touch on her latest historic accomplishment in a music genre that’s left Black contributions gone too far unnoticed.
“We first bonded as a part of a sisterhood who have been baptized by fire in this industry. We understand what the other has been through,” Palmer tells ESSENCE in a statement. “I admire her boldness to stand in and speak her truth and I am dedicated to supporting her in any way. After the year she’s had, I wanted to provide a safe space for her, no pretense or performance necessary. You hear the Mickey I’ve come to know personally in this show.”
Rissi Palmer hosts Apple Music’s Color Me CountryIn this lively conversation, you’ll learn how Guyton’s ballad “Black Like Me” is the first song by a Black woman to receive a Grammy nod in the country category in 45 years. The Pointer Sisters’ “Fairytale” was the hit to precede her. She also shares how she wouldn’t have made her way to Nashville if it wasn’t for Palmer, her path to motherhood, and what’s next for Black women in country music.
Check out some excerpts from their conversation below, and revisit the episode on Apple Music here.
Mickey on her historic Grammy nomination for the ‘Best Country Solo Performance’ category:
“For me, being a Black woman in the category that I’m in, this is bigger than just an award for me. This award is really for all Black women.”
Mickey Guyton performs onstage during the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry on September 16, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. On the unlikely path for “Black Like Me”
“I never thought that a song like ‘Black Like Me’ would ever see the light of day. I’ve sent that song to people and a lot of the common reaction was, ‘I need to sit with this for a minute. I’ll get back to you.’ … I was really trying to push that song and we had video plans for it. We had video plans for ‘What Are You Gonna Tell Her’ and then everything just shut down and it stopped. And for that song to have taken a life of its own in a pandemic where I can’t even leave my apartment, it’s just crazy. Literally, God has a plan. I haven’t done anything different other than open my mouth and speak out against racism and sexism and speaking up for people that can’t speak out for themselves.”
Mickey giving Rissi Palmer her flowers for encouraging her to pursue songwriting:
“I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, I would not have moved to Nashville had I not Googled Black female country singers and saw your face and saw you singing at a show, nervous, holding your heart and your guitar. Had I never seen that, I would have never made the move to Nashville. So you are the head majorette. I’m just following your lead and following how you’re leading in love, and showcasing—I discover artists because I’m seeing your page.”
On what’s next for Black women in country music:
“Well, I’ve learned one thing since all of this has gone on, that not only is it important for me to win, but it’s important for Black women to win. And the only way I truly believe that Black women can win is by bringing each other up. And it won’t work if it doesn’t. It’s not enough for just one of us to get through. It has to be a collective effort. And that is the path for the next Black girl, is for her to in fact, open her door for the next Black girl. And not only for her to embrace the next Black girl, but to embrace her Black people because they are important. And Black women are so important and we’re not always made to feel that way.”
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Uh … so … um…
Aliens?
(Marvel Entertainment)
If you’re currently on Twitter, you might see “Galactic Federation” trending, which instantly made me think of Star Wars, and Star Trek, and yet, for once, it was not trending because fans of galaxies far far away are having a debate. Instead, it’s trending because … in one man’s estimation, aliens are real and Donald Trump knows all about it?
According to The Jerusalem Post, Haim Eshed (who served as the head of Isreal’s space security program for 30 years and is a retired general) has said that aliens exist and humanity is not ready for it. I have absolutely no proof as to whether or not he is correct—it’s likely nobody does!—but honestly, we are NOT ready for aliens in 2020 so this whole thing checks out to me.
In an interview, Eshed specifically said that an organized “Galactic Federation” exists and again, I don’t know if this is true in any way and it most likely is not, HOWEVER, every bit of media that I have seen with aliens involved has some kind of government body or a group who is in charge. So the existence of a Galactic Federation somewhere out there wouldn’t exactly surprise me. Eshed also insists that governments have had dealings with the aliens for years, and that Donald Trump came close to revealing their existence—but that the Galactic Federation stopped him from doing so. Our alien friends knew we weren’t ready.
As for why he’s chosen to reveal this information now, Eshed explained that the timing was simply due to how much the academic landscape has changed, and how respected he is in academia.
“If I had come up with what I’m saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalized,” he explained to Yediot.
He added that “today, they’re already talking differently. I have nothing to lose. I’ve received my degrees and awards; I am respected in universities abroad, where the trend is also changing.”
The 87-year-old current professor says that he revealed the information now because we’re talking more about alien life-forms and people would perhaps take him more seriously. All of that is fine, and it’s true that there’s been a lot of UFO declassification information from governments in recent years. But the current Internet chatter in response to Eshed’s alleged revelations centers around the Galactic Federation, because it is impossible not to talk about the Galactic Federation once it is introduced as a topic and a possibility.
[Eshed] gave further descriptions about exactly what sort of agreements have been made between the aliens and the US, which ostensibly have been made because they wish to research and understand “the fabric of the universe.” This cooperation includes a secret underground base on Mars, where there are American and alien representatives.
(Within our own staff, I said that a Galactic Federation has to exist and our Kaila Hale-Stern said aliens do but the Federation does not. Welcome to how we process this story.)
Twitter is processing by having a lot of fun right now with the Galactic Federation.
I did NOT have “Membership to the Galactic Federation denied” on my 2020 bingo card. It was definitely on a future one, but not 2020. Huh.
— Bryan/TheSnowyDM (@thehopelessdm) December 7, 2020
Who’s ready for the finale of 2020. Galactic federation.
pic.twitter.com/vonoBAH8hq
— Bradley Martyn (@BradleyMartyn) December 7, 2020
Listen, if the Galactic Federation is for Medicare For All, I’ll hear them out.
— Blake Hammond (@BigRadMachine) December 7, 2020
Exclusive look at the “Galactic Federation” members pic.twitter.com/K28aeRyKkE
— Shaurya Chawla (@_ShauryaChawla) December 7, 2020
But what does the Galactic Federation think about the Space Force?
— Yolanda Machado (@SassyMamainLA) December 7, 2020
The most unbelievable part of this story though is that, in theory, Trump knows about it and stayed quiet. Not only does Trump never stay quiet but I had ONE WISH during this clusterf**k of a presidency and it was that Trump would tell us about the aliens and if he HAD THE INFORMATION and didn’t? Well, that would be truly baffling. Like more shocking than actual aliens.
I don’t know if any of this is true but if it is, can someone please let the Galactic Federation know that I will gladly serve as the Earth ambassador?
(image: LucasFilm)
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Writer: Ryan North / Artist: Nico Leon / Cover: Ryan Stegman / MARVEL
It feels like every day 2020 hit us with another unsuspecting Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu: One Thousand Years of Death. Despite the boatloads of crap this year has wrought, Marvel’s been busy setting up their legacy characters for the long run. Established super teen teams like the Champions and Young Avengers have been holding it down for some time. New books like Strange Academy have established incredible new locations, like a magic school, for dope young heroes to flourish.
Now, the Power Pack may have been Marvel’s original super powered kid team, but things have changed since their 1984 debut. They’ve been in a bunch of books, hung out with Wolverine, popped up in various timelines, and alternate futures, however the name doesn’t carry much weight these days. Despite all that, there is no denying that these four possess something special that deserves to be celebrated, and Eisner Award winning writer Ryan North, is beginning to do just that.
In Power Pack #1, North does an impeccable job of catching readers up on the Power Pack origin story, character descriptions, sibling dynamics, and reestablishment as an NYC based team of powerful pint-sized heroes!
Seasoned fans will find the issue to be a bright rehashing of things they already know, but hopefully they can find solace in knowing the book is written so dam well, and the artwork is precise and vibrant. The Pack also seems to be in the 8-14 age range (possibly older) and have earned some serious XP over the years. That could be the difference in this mini-series leading to an ongoing book and cementing themselves as members if this decade’s exciting young Marvel heroes.
My hope is that Katie, Julie, Jack, and Alex Power get to showcase their powers in a new and exciting way. My hope is that the Outlawed tie-in does this book a favor instead of holding it back. My hope is that they run into Miles Morales, Nova, and Kamala Khan and get inspired to be great. We’ll see if Ryan North can deliver.
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