{"id":803854,"date":"2020-02-05T14:37:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=948261"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:37:31","slug":"zola-jesus-on-why-shes-voting-bernie-even-though-shes-amy-klobuchars-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/zola-jesus-on-why-shes-voting-bernie-even-though-shes-amy-klobuchars-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zola Jesus on Why She\u2019s Voting Bernie, Even Though She\u2019s Amy Klobuchar\u2019s Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)<\/a> wants to convince Americans that she should be the next president of the United States \u2014 but her own cousin thinks otherwise. That cousin just happens to be Nika Danilova, a.k.a. goth-pop singer-songwriter\/producer Zola Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not fucking around with my Bernie support,\u201d Danilova tweeted earlier this week. \u201cHe\u2019s running against my cousin. I\u2019m going against bloodlines for this shit!\u201d In case her support for Bernie Sanders<\/a> in the Democratic primary isn\u2019t clear, her Twitter display name also reads: \u201cZJ for BERNIE SANDERS 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

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i’m not fucking around with my bernie support. he’s running against my cousin. i’m going against bloodlines for this shit!<\/p>\n

\u2014 ZJ for BERNIE SANDERS 2020 (@ZOLAJESUS) February 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI thought it was funny,\u201d Danilova tells Rolling Stone<\/em> of her tweet, which had amassed nearly 20,000 likes at press time. \u201cI\u2019ve mentioned that she\u2019s my cousin a couple of times, but I just wanted to make it very clear that I had a choice to make. I love my family, and I love the Klobuchar side of my family, but I definitely believe in Bernie\u2019s platform way more. So it is what it is. Just so you know: I\u2019m going out here on a limb right now, against my own blood, for this shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she and Klobuchar do share a family connection, she adds that she comes from a large family, and they haven\u2019t actually met.<\/p>\n

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The singer-songwriter\u2019s political awakening was a gradual process. When Barack Obama was in office, she says, she felt like the \u201cworld was working for me.\u201d Around the time Donald Trump took office in 2016, she became more aware of the cracks in our country. \u201cAs I\u2019ve gotten older, it\u2019s been really hard for me to see how broken our country is, how deeply broken it is,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Danilova has decided to come out strong on social in support of Sanders because she feels like artists have the responsibility to \u201cpush culture forward and push society forward in new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we\u2019re the ones responsible for taking human emotion, taking human experience, and digesting it,\u201d she continues. \u201cWhat we contribute is a re-metabolization of culture and society and history and people. I feel like I have a duty as an artistic figure to promote my own ideology about what world I want to live in. I want to move forward with that vision of a future that I feel is more inclusive. We\u2019re losing our sense of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

As such, she sees Sanders as a fellow artist: \u201cHe\u2019s seeing how the world can be better and he\u2019s seeing what needs to be done.\u201d Sanders is running on a platform of Medicare, college, and housing for all, among other issues. He\u2019s drawn broad support from other musicians<\/a> including Cardi B, the Strokes, Jack White, Ariana Grande, Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cBernie means well and means what he says,\u201d Danilova says. \u201cI believe that he will not only bring change into our government and into the administration and to society, but he will bring a movement of change. He will open up the floodgates and people will be able to look at society differently, look at their place within it differently, look at their neighbors differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danilova stresses that she doesn\u2019t live in a big city, but in her Wisconsin hometown. Her family moved there as a child, when she was known as Nicole Hummel. \u201cThere are homemade Trump signs just down the road from me,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is middle America that I live in, and I want these people to be taken care of, you know? I see the division and I see the lack of education in my [neighbors\u2019] politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the midst of all this, she\u2019s planning to head out to a cabin for a few days soon to work on new music. Zola Jesus\u2019 last album, Okovi<\/em>, arrived in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtists are pressured these days to put out new music constantly, without having that time to reinvent themselves or to try something new or to take a chance,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to be able to make the next thing that I put out feel like a departure: \u2018She\u2019s had time to grow and work through her trauma, work on her bullshit, and really deliver something that\u2019s new.\u2019 It takes time to really be able to get to that kernel, that pearl at the end of all your work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) wants to convince Americans that she should be the next president of the United States \u2014 but her own cousin thinks otherwise. That cousin just happens to be Nika Danilova, a.k.a. goth-pop singer-songwriter\/producer Zola Jesus. \u201cI\u2019m not fucking around with my Bernie support,\u201d Danilova tweeted earlier this week. \u201cHe\u2019s running against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 14:53:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}