{"id":807792,"date":"2020-05-26T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1004975"},"modified":"2020-05-26T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:37:11","slug":"angelique-kidjo-brings-fresh-funk-to-cover-of-midnight-oils-beds-are-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/angelique-kidjo-brings-fresh-funk-to-cover-of-midnight-oils-beds-are-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo Brings Fresh Funk to Cover of Midnight Oil\u2019s \u2018Beds Are Burning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beninese singer-songwriter Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil\u2019s 1987 song \u201cBeds Are Burning\u201d for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s<\/em> #PlayAtHome music series.<\/p>\n

For their rendition, Kidjo and her socially distanced band offered up a decisively funky take on the synth-tinged Eighties rocker. While the song is about returning land and making reparations to Aboriginal communities in Australia, it has a universal urgency <\/span> that feels particularly potent now, especially as Kidjo sang the chorus: \u201cHow can we dance when our earth is turning?\/How do we sleep while our beds are burning?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidjo\u2019s most recent album, 2019\u2019s Celia<\/em>, was a tribute to Celia Cruz<\/a>, and earlier this year it won the Grammy for Best World Music Album. Back in March, the singer was set to celebrate her 60th birthday with an all-star concert at Carnegie Hall, although the event was canceled due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

While in quarantine, Kidjo has participated in several livestream concerts, including Earth Day Live<\/em><\/a> and a fundraiser hosted<\/a> by the Jazz Foundation of America. She also performed a three-song set for Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s In My Room<\/em> series<\/a>, where she covered the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cGimme Shelter,\u201d the Talking Heads\u2019 \u201cThe Overload\u201d and Curtis Mayfield\u2019s \u201cMove on Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beninese singer-songwriter Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil\u2019s 1987 song \u201cBeds Are Burning\u201d for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u2019s #PlayAtHome music series. For their rendition, Kidjo and her socially distanced band offered up a decisively funky take on the synth-tinged Eighties rocker. While the song is about returning land and making reparations […]<\/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-807792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 06:42:03","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\/807792","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=807792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}