{"id":807470,"date":"2020-05-15T05:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1000257"},"modified":"2020-05-15T05:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:35:18","slug":"alice-cooper-offers-words-of-encouragement-with-new-song-dont-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/alice-cooper-offers-words-of-encouragement-with-new-song-dont-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Cooper Offers Words of Encouragement With New Song \u2018Don\u2019t Give Up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-15-at-7.32.05-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alice-cooper\/\">Alice Cooper<\/a> is offering up a message of encouragement during this scary and uncertain time. The heavy metal legend released a new song and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-video\/\">music video<\/a>, \u201cDon\u2019t Give Up,\u201d that addresses COVID-19, overlaying videos of fans playing instruments and holding up the song\u2019s lyrics over a giant CGI globe. Produced remotely by Bob Ezrin, the music video uses clips from over 20,000 fan videos.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper is in the center of it all, pontificating on how all of us facing the coronavirus right now \u2014 the entire world \u2014 must stand together. \u201cOur enemy is a cold, indiscriminate monster,\u201d he says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t care if you\u2019re old or newborn. It exists to kill. You and I are nothing to it. It has no heart, or soul, or conscience. Do we fear it? Yeah. Do we cower before it? Hell no. We\u2019re the blood-and-guts human race, and we win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Cooper was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alice-cooper-message-of-hope-969277\/\">headlining a European tour<\/a> with Cheap Trick when the coronavirus pandemic struck, leaving him and his crew scrambling to get back home to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all in this together,\u201d he told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cWhether you\u2019re entertainer or fan, rich or poor, male or female, old or young. And we\u2019ll get through this together. And when we do, we\u2019ll be back on the road, doing what we love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alice-cooper-dont-give-up-music-video-1000257\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Cooper is offering up a message of encouragement during this scary and uncertain time. The heavy metal legend released a new song and music video, \u201cDon\u2019t Give Up,\u201d that addresses COVID-19, overlaying videos of fans playing instruments and holding up the song\u2019s lyrics over a giant CGI globe. Produced remotely by Bob Ezrin, the [&hellip;]<\/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-807470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 00:35:32","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\/807470","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=807470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}