By Ed Diokno, Views from the Edge
It’s easy to get depressed in this Trumpian era when things look hopeless and the forces of good seem unable to turn the tide of evil.
Then a song like If I Ruled the World comes along to lift your spirit by contemplating the world of possibilities.
“It’s a song where I dare to say out loud all the things I want for my life, and for the ones I love,”the songwriter MILCK, tells HuffPost of the track, released Friday. “To me, it’s far more empowering and energizing when we encourage people to imagine the world they want, rather than when we focus on cursing the parts of the world we don’t want to see.”
The Los Angeles-based, California-born Chinese American artist continues, “There’s so much chaos that we’re encountering on a day-to-day basis, that I decided I wanted to create music to ease the weary soul,” she said. “If we constantly are white-knuckled with clenched fists, we will have allowed for the oppressive forces in the world to rob of us this magical thing called life.”
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