{"id":808108,"date":"2020-06-05T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1010615"},"modified":"2020-06-05T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:34:08","slug":"shygirl-recruits-arca-for-unconditional-donating-proceeds-to-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/shygirl-recruits-arca-for-unconditional-donating-proceeds-to-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shygirl Recruits Arca for \u2018Unconditional,\u2019 Donating Proceeds to Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/arca-shygirl-unconditional.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">British singer Shygirl teamed up with producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/arca\/\" id=\"auto-tag_arca\" data-tag=\"arca\">Arca<\/a> on the new track \u201cUnconditional,\u201d which arrived Friday following a week of protests after the murder of George Floyd. Proceeds from the sparse two-minute song will benefit Black Lives America and Inquest UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI felt overwhelmed this week,\u201d Shygirl wrote of the track <a href=\"https:\/\/0800shygirl.bandcamp.com\/track\/unconditional\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on Bandcamp<\/a>. \u201cInundated with imagery and news that triggered emotions I was not immediately ready to deal with. I found myself reaching for a lifeline, a brief moment of reprieve to steady me before I inevitably returned to the news, the deep dive of personal reflection and to the protest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Shygirl continued: \u201cProtesting reminded me that I wasn\u2019t alone. The possibility that others might feel the way I do, even in the slightest, made me want to speak up and reach out, to provide something. I find both solace and power in music, so it\u2019s in this that I have a resource to share. With the aim to build emotional strength and connections in this time of awakening, reflection and protest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Arca recently recruited Shygirl to feature on \u201cWatch\u201d from the electronic artist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/arca-kick-i-time-video-1002894\/\">upcoming LP <em>KiCk i<\/em><\/a>, due out July 17th; the album also includes guests Bjork, Sophie and Rosalia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In February, Arca released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/arca-new-song-north-american-tour-955112\/\"><span class=\"s2\">a 62-minute track<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;known only as \u201c@@@@@.\u201d She also announced international tour dates that were scheduled for this spring but were later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/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\/shygirl-arca-unconditional-1010615\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British singer Shygirl teamed up with producer Arca on the new track \u201cUnconditional,\u201d which arrived Friday following a week of protests after the murder of George Floyd. Proceeds from the sparse two-minute song will benefit Black Lives America and Inquest UK. \u201cI felt overwhelmed this week,\u201d Shygirl wrote of the track on Bandcamp. \u201cInundated with [&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-808108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 04:35:04","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\/808108","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=808108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}