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WATCH “AMERICAN DREAM (HOMETOWN HEROES & BEAUTY QUEENS)” VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/IeuzJv9Hu7Q?feature=shared
LISTEN TO “AMERICAN DREAM (HOMETOWN HEROES & BEAUTY QUEENS)” SONG:
https://orcd.co/americandreamhhbq
“LA native Mara Connor has sharpened her political sword on new single ‘American Dream,' cooking up a timely thriller that takes aim at those who prey on the vulnerable.”
- Will Schube, Flood Magazine
In her chillingly relevant new single, LA native Mara Connor condemns Donald Trump, “another billionaire who swears he’s for the proletariat,” highlighting the hypocrisy of Trump and how his followers have (once again) voted against their own interests. The song examines the so-called “American Dream” that many spend their lives chasing but never attain, in no small part due to the many voters who “placed their bets on the wrong team.”
Mara says “the history books will remember this dark moment when America chose a pathologically selfish, sexual predator and convicted felon over an accomplished woman of color to our nation’s highest office. For years ‘we the people’ have watched him spew his poisonous rhetoric, sow fear and bigotry in an already divided country, defy democracy, promise to strip us of our fundamental rights and healthcare, pillage our environment, subjugate women and oppress minorities, make the rich richer and the poor poorer…and now America invites him to return to the White House like a wounded victim asking its perpetrator to stick the knife in deeper. In times of great upheaval and moral decay, we need art and music more than ever.”
Mara produced the track with her friends Gregg White (of Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios) and Dillon Casey (Orville Peck) who both played on the song along with Mara and musician Chris Price (Ringo Starr), who went on tour with Mara in Japan in October.
Mara directed the song’s lyric video which was edited by Jacob Butler (La Lom) and shot by Justin Kohlberg. She sings in front of a retro microphone and red, white and blue banner, evoking nostalgic Americana and mid-century political rallies of days gone by.
This is, fittingly, a sadder, more subdued version of the song. Watch the video for the faster, more rocked out version of American Dream (also directed by Mara, released in October) here.
Mara Connor has already been lauded by Rolling Stone, Chicago Tribune, Consequence, American Songwriter and KCRW as a unique and exciting new voice in music. With only a few original songs and a handful of covers released thus far, this marks a new era of Connor’s music with more in the pipeline, including a forthcoming duet with Margo Price, due in 2025.
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