>>> LIVE LOOK AT THE WHITE HOUSE
>>> LIVE LOOK AT THE WHITE HOUSE
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
A LONGTIME CRITIC OF PRESIDENT
TRUMP, ACCLAIMED SINGER, ROONTLY
RELEASED AN OUTSPOKEN NEW SONG
CALLED "IN THE END" WHERE SHE
ADDRESSES THE DISPARITY IN
POLITICAL AND CORPORATE SYSTEMS
IN AMERICA AND EXAMINES A
COUNTRY FACING ITS BIGGEST MORAL
DILEMMA.
HERE’S A PART OF THAT SONG. ♪
♪
♪ THERE’S A FLY ON THE WALL IN
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL WHERE THE
KING OF THE WORLD WATCHES TV ♪
♪ AND THE PEOPLE ALL WAIT FOR HIS LATEST MANDATE TO A NATION
HIS LATEST MANDATE TO A NATION
OF ANGRY BELIEVERS ♪
♪ THE FLY LANDS ON HIS SEAT AND
WHISPERS WHAT’S THAT ♪
♪ IS IT TOO LATE
TO TURN BACK NOW ♪
♪ TOO LATE TO SEE THE LIGHT ♪
♪ DO YOU THINK ABOUT HEAVEN AND
HELL WHEN YOU WAKE UP AT NIGHT ♪
♪ DO YOU ASK YOURSELF IN THE END
IF YOU FEED THEM IF YOU TREAT
THEM IS IT SO HARD TO LOVE IN
THE END ♪
♪ LIKE YOU MEAN IT ♪
♪ LIKE YOU’VE SEEN IT ♪
>> AND THE NINE-TIME GRAMMY
AWARD-WINNING SINGER, SONGWRITER
JOINS US NOW.
ALSO WITH US, KURT BARDELLA,
SENIOR ADVISER TO THE LINCOLN
PROJECT.
FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
SEGMENT, HE’S A LEADING EXPERT
ON THE COUNTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY
AND THE PUBLISH OF THE
NEWSLETTER "MORNING HANGOVER."
CHERYL, THE SONG IS GREAT.
I’D LOVE YOU TO TAKE US THROUGH
THE CONCEPT BEHIND THE SONG, THE
POSTING OF THE VIDEO THE TAKING
DOWN OF THE VIDEO AND WHERE WE
ARE NOW WITH IT.
>> WELL, THE SONG WAS INSPIRED
BY RAISING TWO BOYS IN THIS
CLIMATE AND HAVING TO ANSWER THE
HARD QUESTIONS THAT -- WHEN I
WAS 10 OR 13, CERTAINLY WAS NOT
THINKING ABOUT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS RAISED BY A
DEMOCRAT AND A REPUBLICAN, AND
OUR CONVERSATIONS AT THE DINNER
TABLE WHEN I LISTENED TO MY
PARENTS WERE, THEY MIGHT HAVE
DISAGREED BUT EVERYONE LISTENED
AND EVERYONE TOOK INTO ACCOUNT
WHAT THE OTHER ONE FELT.
AND THERE WAS A LOT OF
COMPASSION BASED IN
CONVERSATIONS IN AMERICA.
WAYS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO
MOVE FORWARD.
I FEEL THIS PRESIDENT HAS REALLY
FOSTERED A CLIMATE OF HATE AND A
CAMPAIGN OF SEPARATING US.
AND I DO FEEL LIKE IN THE END
THAT WE ALL HAVE MORE IN COMMON
THAN WE DON’T.
WE WANT TO SEE CHANGE.
MY FEELING ABOUT IT IS THERE’S
SO MUCH MONEY IN POLITICS, AND
WHEN THE DALAI LAMA SPOKE ABOUT
COMPASSION, HOW THE WORLD WOULD
LOOK DIFFERENT IF EVERYONE IN
BUSINESS, EVERYONE IN POLITICS
MADE EVERY DECISION BASED IN
COMPASSION, WOULD THE WORLD BE A
DIFFERENT PLACE?
YES, IT DEFINITELY WOULD.
AND I FEEL LIKE WHERE THERE’S
MONEY IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM,
WE CAN’T COUNT ON THE PEOPLE
THAT ARE MAKING THE DECISIONS ON
OUR BEHALF.
TO MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON
COMPASSION AND MAKING TOO MUCH
MONEY.
I PUT UP A VIDEO THAT WAS VERY
CONVICTING OF THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
BUT THE SONG IS BIGGER THAN
THIS.
THE SONG IS ABOUT COMPASSION,
ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT TO THE
TOP AND FORGET WHO THEY
REPRESENT.
FORGET WHAT THE DECISIONS THEY
ARE MAKING, HOW THEY’RE GOING TO
AFFECT THE PEOPLE AND INSTEAD
ARE TAKING MONEY FROM HUGE
CORPORATIONS.
AND I HAD A MOMENT REALLY OF MY
OWN CONVICTION.
AM I GOING TO PLAY INTO THE HATE
THIS PRESIDENT IS DISSEMINATING?
SO I TOOK THE VIDEO DOWN BECAUSE
I’M HUMAN.
BUT I HAVE REWORKED IT, AND
WE’RE GOING TO PUT UP A NEW
VIDEO BECAUSE NOBODY ESCAPES
THIS CLIMATE.
>> THAT’S RIGHT.
THAT’S RIGHT.
KURT BARDELLA.
YOU CAN TAKE THE NEXT QUESTION
TO CHERYL.
>> CHERYL, ANOTHER SONG THAT YOU
RECENTLY PUT OUT, A RERELEASE OF
SOMETHING YOU CUT ABOUT EIGHT
YEARS AGO, RIGHT ALONG WHEN
KAMALA HARRIS ACCEPTED THE VICE
PRESIDENT’S NOMINEE TO RUN WITH
JOE BIDEN.
YOU PUT OUT THIS SONG "WOMAN IN
THE WHITE HOUSE" WITH A
FANTASTIC VIDEO TO GO WITH IT.
TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT THAT SONG
MEANS TO YOU, WHY YOU DECIDED TO
RERELEASE IT NOW EIGHT YEARS
LATER, AND WHAT KIND OF
RECEPTION YOU’VE GOTTEN FROM IT.
>> INTERESTINGLY, WE’VE HAD MORE
OF A SCORCHING RESPONSE TO THAT
SONG THAN WE HAVE TO "IN THE
END."
WHY THAT IS, I DON’T REALLY
KNOW.
I THINK THE FACT THAT WE’RE
STILL CARRYING ON A CONVERSATION
ABOUT WHY WE DON’T HAVE A WOMAN
IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS SHOCKING
WHEN I GREW UP WITH MARGARET
THATCHER AND NAMES LIKE THAT
WERE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE
POLITICAL THEATER.
YOU KNOW, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE
THE MOST FORWARD THINKING
COUNTRY AND YET WE STILL HAVE
THIS IDEA OF WHAT A STRONG WOMAN
LOOKS LIKE AND WHEN A STRONG
WOMAN COMES TO THE FOREFRONT HOW
SHE IS LABELED AND HOW SHE’S
PERCEIVED.
AND, YES, THE SONG WAS WRITTEN
EIGHT YEARS AGO, AND LOOK WHERE
WE ARE.
WE’RE STILL IN THIS SAME
CONVERSATION.
AND I HOPE IN MY LIFETIME THAT
MY BOYS -- I MEAN, MY BOYS ASK
ME ALL THE TIME Y HAS THERE
NEVER BEEN A WOMAN IN THE WHITE
HOUSE, AND THEY’RE BOYS.
SO IT’S TIME.
IT REALLY IS.
WE HAVE WONDERFUL, STRONG WOMEN
WHO ARE CAPABLE OF LEADING THIS
COUNTRY.
AND I DON’T KNOW ANY OF WARS
THAT A WOMAN LED US INTO.
SO, BAM.
>> LEAVE IT RIGHT THERE.
>> CLAIRE McCASKILL, FORMER
SENATOR CLAIRE McCASKILL.
>> CLAIRE, HI.
>> IT’S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU.
>> NICE TO SEE YOU.
>> CHERYL IS MIZZOU MADE.
NOT ONLY DO WE SHARE A STATE BUT
ALSO SHARE A UNIVERSITY, AND WE
SHARE A SORORITY, AND SHE HAS
BEEN A TREMENDOUS HELP TO ME
THROUGHOUT MY CAREER.
AT TIMES WHEN I REALLY NEEDED A
BLAZING STAR, SHE ALWAYS SAID,
I’LL SHOW UP.
I’LL HELP.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE WOMAN
IN THE WHITE HOUSE, I THINK
PEOPLE -- WE JUST HAD A SEGMENT,
CHERYL, TALKING ABOUT CHILD
CARE.
AND I THINK PEOPLE FORGET THAT
WOMEN WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH
CHILD CARE, THEY ARE TOO BUSY.
THEY DON’T HAVE A LOBBYIST.
THEY ARE WAY TOO BUSY TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT WORK.
AND THOSE ARE THE ISSUES WHERE A
WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE CAN
REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND I
JUST LOVE THE VIDEO.
I WANT TO PUT IN A PLUG FOR A
DIFFERENT SONG, THOUGH.
I WANT TO PUT IN A PLUG FOR
"LONELY ALONE."
IT IS AN AMAZING SONG.
I WANT EVERYONE TO GO OUT AND
LISTEN TO CHERYL AND WILLIE
NELSON SING A VERY AMERICAN
BALLAD THAT IS IN SOME WAYS
HAUNTING BUT OVERALL BEAUTIFUL.
ESPECIALLY FOR THIS TIME WHEN SO
MANY PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY’RE
ALONE WITH THIS PANDEMIC.
AND I, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU SPEAK
TO MAKING MUSIC IN THIS PANDEMIC
AND THE CHALLENGES YOU FACE,
CHERYL, IN TERMS OF GETTING
THESE SONGS OUT TO THE PUBLIC?
>> YEAH, YOU KNOW, WELL, FIRST
AND FOREMOST, I’M REALLY LUCKY
BECAUSE I DO PLAY.
SO I’M ABLE TO DO THESE VIRTUAL
CONCERTS.
IN FACT, WE’RE GOING TO MAKE AN
ANNOUNCEMENT FRIDAY ABOUT DOING
A LIVE SHOW.
SO WE’LL ANNOUNCE WAYS TO BUY
TICKETS TO THAT.
BUT IT’S CHALLENGING.
FOR ME, I SAW BRAD PAISLEY ON
HERE LAST WEEK WITH YOU KURT AND
MIKA, AND OUR HEARTS ARE
BREAKING BECAUSE WE HAVE
PEOPLE -- I HAVE PEOPLE THAT
HAVE WORKED WITH ME FOR 28, 30
YEARS WHO ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT
NOW.
AND I LISTENED TO AN NPR THING
THE OTHER DAY ABOUT HOW ALL
THESE CLUBS THAT WE CUT OUR
TEETH ON, WE FIGURED OUT WHO WE
ARE, ARE CLOSING DOWN.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO THE
FUTURE OF MUSIC AND WE NEED
ARTISTS TO SPEAK TO WHAT’S
HAPPENING TO ALL OF US.
WE NEED ARTISTS TO GIVE VOICE TO
THE HUMAN CONDITION, WHICH IS
WHAT WE’VE ALWAYS COUNTED ON.
FOR ME, IT’S A GREAT TIME TO BE
ABLE TO WRITE ABOUT WHAT’S
HAPPENING AND NOT HAVE TO THINK,
OKAY, I’M GOING TO MAKE AN
ALBUM.
I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT A BODY OF
WORK BEFORE I PUT THESE SONGS
OUT.
I’M JUST PUTTING THEM OUT
VIRTUALLY AND PLAYING AND GIVING
PEOPLE A DIALOGUE AND GIVING
PEOPLE COMFORT THROUGH "LONELY
ALONE" THAT THEY’RE NOT ALONE OR
GIVING VOICE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE
FRUSTRAT WITH THE SYSTEM AND
HOW MUCH MONEY IS INVOLVED IN IT
AND HOW BROKEN IT IS.
AND ALSO WHAT A TREAT TO HAVE
WILLIE NELSON.
I MEAN, HE’S IN HAWAII, BUT TO
BE ABLE -- OR MAYBE IN AUSTIN,
BUT TO BE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO
HIM AND SAY, WILL YOU
PARTICIPATE WITH ME ON THIS AND
FOR ALL OF US TO GET TO SEE HIM
IN HIS WORLD IN HIS ILLUSTRIOUS
CAREER, TO BE A PART OF THIS
BEAUTIFUL SONG.
>> THE NEW SONG IS "IN THE END."
