Sheryl Crow has never been shy about speaking her mind or sharing her beliefs when it comes to politics. She doesn’t try to beat anybody over the head with her beliefs, but she does hope to inspire other people to care and get involved in the process. When Sheryl looks at people’s willingness to get involved or even just to get out and vote, she says, “My first record I wrote in 1993, and we wrote a song called ‘Run Baby Run’ on the night that Bill Clinton was elected and he beat George Bush. And it was like a proclamation of abject hope. Like young people in the White House, and even then, like up till that moment when MTV started like, entering into the face of elections, there was apathy. People complained about apathy. Only 40 percent of people showed up to vote. There’s always apathy and that’s always an excuse.”
When it comes to inspiring young people to pay attention and get involved in politics, Sheryl says, “I think it starts in our homes. And the one great thing about things looking so dire at the top is that it galvanizes movements at the macro level. But it has to start in the home, and then it has to move out into the village or into the town.”
Sheryl will be releasing her new album, Threads, on August 30th, featuring her current single, “Prove You Wrong,” with Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris, and “Redemption Day,” her duet with Johnny Cash about the state of the world we’re living in and what legacy do we want to leave behind when it’s all said and done.
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“I would say there’s always been apathy. My first record I wrote in 1993, and we wrote a song called ‘Run Baby Run’ on the night that Bill Clinton was elected and he beat George Bush. And it was like a proclamation of abject hope. Like young people in the White House, and even then, like up till that moment when MTV started like, entering into the face of elections, there was apathy. People complained about apathy. Only 40 percent of people showed up to vote. There’s always apathy and that’s always an excuse. I think it starts in our homes. And the one great thing about things looking so dire at the top is that it galvanizes movements at the macro level. But it has to start in the home, and then it has to move out into the village or into the town.”