Every Mother's Son

Album: Eclectro (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • Kelsey Warren, the New York City-based musician who performs as Blak Emoji, wrote this song in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

    "I wanted to write something that not just addresses that, but addresses being a mother, especially a mother of a black or brown kid, and what it feels like to have that kid unjustifiably taken away," he explained on the Songfacts Podcast.
  • Blak Emoji's music is steeped in electronica, not a genre associated with protest music.

    "I didn't want to do another singer-songwriter, acoustic, No Depression-sounding song," he told Songfacts. "Where are the protest songs that are electronic? You can still write a protest song without it being a Woody Guthrie thing. Trying to accomplish that with that song was a challenge, and I think I did it with that one."
  • Blak Emoji is both the singer and the band - kind of like Sade. He makes most of his music on his own but performs it with others.

    Many of his songs were inspired by life in New York City; moved there after attending the University of Miami.

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