{"id":2440856,"date":"2019-02-21T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796872"},"modified":"2019-02-21T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:46:11","slug":"hear-melissa-etheridges-new-ode-to-plant-medicine-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-melissa-etheridges-new-ode-to-plant-medicine-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Melissa Etheridge\u2019s New Ode to \u2018Plant Medicine,\u2019 Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190117_S02_0108_RW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/melissa-etheridge\/\" id=\"auto-tag_melissa-etheridge\" data-tag=\"melissa-etheridge\">Melissa Etheridge<\/a> offers a proud declaration of resilience and self-care on \u201cFaded by Design,\u201d the first single from her upcoming LP, <em>The Medicine Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou wanna change me, don\u2019t bother, \u2019cause I can read the signs,\u201d she sings over a tough-sounding chord progression. \u201cJust rearrange me, don\u2019t call the doctor \u2014 the cure is in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Starting out with a folky acoustic-guitar riff, the song builds to an upbeat chorus, with Etheridge letting out a triumphant \u201cOh, yeah,\u201d before singing, \u201cI\u2019m feeling all my angels \u2014 I\u2019m faded by design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Like <em>The Medicine Show<\/em> as a whole, the song deals with Etheridge\u2019s unapologetic attitude toward her own well-being, and specifically the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cannabis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannabis\" data-tag=\"cannabis\">cannabis<\/a> \u2014 a stance that echoes her longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/melissa-etheridge-supports-legalizing-pot-in-colorado-62551\/\">advocacy<\/a> for pot legalization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inspiration for \u2018Faded by Design\u2019 and the whole album, for that matter was, the events of 2018, both personal and political,\u201d the singer-songwriter tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in a statement. \u201cWe are changing, fast. It\u2019s a good thing but also a scary thing. One of the places we are changing the most is in how we view health. The legalization of plant medicine is ushering in a whole new era of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Faded by Design\u2019 is a song celebrating that change,\u201d she continues. \u201cAn unapologetic statement about how I handle stress and my own health. \u2018Don\u2019t call the doctor \u2026\u2019 I am no longer looking to Western medicine for a pill or \u2018cure.\u2019 I know how I think and feel about myself and my world will be reflected in my body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ePLcAdf8lcc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Produced by Etheridge\u2019s longtime collaborator John Shanks, who has worked with everyone from Kelly Clarkson and Celine Dion to Santana and Bon Jovi, <em>The Medicine Show<\/em> features a stripped-down band including drummer Victor Indrizzo, bassist Chris Chaney and keyboardist Max Hart. The producer also contributed guitar and backing vocals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe sound of the song and the record is purposefully aimed at that \u201890\u2019s rock sound,\u201d Etheridge writes. \u201cWhen rock was moody and fierce. \u2018Faded\u2019 is spot-on a Melissa Etheridge song. You know it from the first few notes. I wrote it on my twelve string and kept it true to that sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Medicine Show<\/em> will be released on April 12th. Etheridge begins an extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/melissaetheridge.com\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S. tour<\/a> on March 29th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/melissa-etheridge-new-song-faded-by-design-medicine-show-796872\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Etheridge offers a proud declaration of resilience and self-care on \u201cFaded by Design,\u201d the first single from her upcoming LP, The Medicine Show. \u201cYou wanna change me, don\u2019t bother, \u2019cause I can read the signs,\u201d she sings over a tough-sounding chord progression. \u201cJust rearrange me, don\u2019t call the doctor \u2014 the cure is in [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:53:01","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}