Nina Simone’s Masterpiece

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[@ahsokaventriss3268]

Magnificent video. I grew up in Mississippi, and am currently back in MS. I love this state, and it makes me absolutely furious how it holds its people back. Nina Simone is amazing; Mississippi Goddamn is my favorite song by Nina.

[@jfu5222]

It's my favorite too.

[@Bow503]

Finally Nina Simone is getting a salute, though it's a shame we associate her with such dark topics. She was such a talented individual. She is not even comparable with other singer like Adele or Whitney idk. She is simply an enigma and a story book. She wears the emotions on her face. She has so much control over you and knows not to give you all of it. Maybe it's good that she gave a voice when it was so necessary. Maybe she was the spark in that dark times to show the way, teach the society. I'm white and I am so locked in her pain she is sharing and her songs make me feel like she understands pain very well. And I'm hurting a lot too. So I imagine there are people around the world who are living in cages and want to sing a song like she did: wish i knew how it feels to be free, or four women, or feelings, or Mr. Backlash, stars. Her live performances are a must watch

[@TylerRamos-h2o]

Adele and Whitney Houston are from a completely different era that’s why she isn’t brought up with them. Totally different kind of music made 40-50 years apart from each other.

[@Bow503]

@@TylerRamos-h2o no i get that completly. it's just she is not a usual artist. she is a personality like no other. she is living the art like no other. i just can't explain it. she is so good

[@bettinapedersen4363]

Thank you very much. I am 72, so I can remember those days. I always loved that song, and Nina.

[@tanglingheadphones]

Fantastic vid. Just a small note that Hind in Hind's Hall is pronounced with a short i, like in kiss or fill. I'm ashamed to say I'd never heard of Mississippi Goddamn before this vid, happy to learn about it.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

This song is visceral. As a white southerner growing up in the 1970s, we thought that equality was here. But by the 1980s, I knew we were beginning to back slide (Reagan's morning in America was definitely a white morning) and the Trump years have made me weep in frustration with its reinvigorated racism.

[@NinaGray-eq9on]

I'm trans and name myself after Nina, she is as close as I come to regarding anything as sacred. I have some years back made my own Nina compilation cds, as the commercial ones don't cover many of the best. I always included this song in the mix. I have made copies for friends and was always surprised by how many never realised how political she was. Nina is simply the greatest musician of the 20th century in my view. Glad to see videos like this. My fave Nina song is Wild is the Wind.

[@Youssef06_]

U ain’t no girl bro

[@bentleyangeldekao7768]

I feel similarly. “Wild is the wind” is also one of my favorite songs of all time, with its competition being other Nina Simone (such as the stars/ feeling medley or “you’ll never walk alone”. Nothing could communicate how deeply her music has affected me. I’m so glad to see other that people feel similarly.

[@quaranahmad7923]

I've noticed many of your videos about Black artists often have to do with racism, civil rights, or injustice. While covering this is noble, I would love to see you cover more Black art that covers our contemporary life, similar to how you cover European artists for their personal causes and agendas. It is important to showcase that Black art is not always conjoined to trauma.

[@dvsse40]

Woooooord

[@jfu5222]

This live version of Mississippi Goddamn is absolutely amazing, the look on Nina's face is every bit as powerful as the lyrics. "That's it!"

[@hamarabhai78]

Macklemore the uncle who you thought was cringe as a kid but is cool as fuck as you grow up

[@gentalrobots3988]

Kendrick Lamar lost that Grammy to Macklemore because in 2024 he thought drake was a bigger problem then genocide

[@damianitamarwayne1447]

@@gentalrobots3988 there's no genocide stop talking nonesense

[@polak56565]

he's cringe

[@mosquerajoseph7305]

​@@gentalrobots3988bro what

[@jortagena]

Thank you for helping me better understand such a powerful song. From Chile I congratulate you for showing us this transcendental "painting". True art transcends forms.

[@kidmohair8151]

being a child of the 1960s, I am struck by the parallels with Gaza/Palestine, the civil rights movement and criminal wars. the distinction that was made then, in the "hey hey *LBJ* how many kids did you kill today?" chant, needs to be made now too. it is not *Israelis* who are at the root of the ethnic cleansing that is going on, although, just like the conscripted US soldiers did in Viet-Nam, there are a large number of them who are doing the dirty work, *it is netanyahoo's régime*

[@rainghostly]

Thank you for making this video, all the thoughts you left me with and introducing me to a great song.

[@MightBeRasor]

Damn, Shawn. You hit hard with this one. Thank you.

[@Did.You.Forget]

The deepcuts of any artist is better than anything that really gets promoted.

[@naranara1690]

Sometimes you find an artist whose whole career is a deep cut. That's when you know you found some treasure.

[@rhondajohnson8310]

Thank you, thank you for this video. Means so much to me

[@LyallaTime]

Nina Simone has long been my favorite singer--her voice is amazing!

[@DrAnarchy69]

I can’t believe I never heard this song. I had to stop the video to listen to “Mississippi Goddam” in its entirety before proceeding further. Thank you for introducing this to me. The lines about how gradualism is too slow spoke to my revolutionary Anarchist and anti racist heart

[@amberly0317]

Always love learning from you!!

[@henryporter9910]

It's amazing to see how the arts had such an influence on the civil rights movement. The power behind so many songs evoking the people to revolt and societies to change is astonishing! Would there be any chance to review the impact of this struggle in songs like 'If I can Dream' by Elvis Presley? I'm just glad to see the world has changed from what it once was, and yet still more change has to be done!

[@mohammadjaber1541]

the role of art, be it paintings or music, is a lot more essential to politics than many people believe. thanks for helping these specific instances of that come to light, i wouldn't have known about either songs if it weren't for this video considering how repression is present in social media algorithms too, not just physical protests also, i love how your videos are expanding to cover more than just paintings, as it is just one form of art, you're doing an amazing job ❤

[@that_guy_named_Tom1217]

Love your content, love the growth to music aswell

[@artofescapism]

Mississippi Goddamn has always been my favorite Nina Simone song- it's so raw and emotional.

[@sergioalcantar3290]

You're a light. Thanks.

[@marianatheschizoid5912]

I really love these protest songs from the 60s and 70s because I feel like I relate to them in a way. I initially kinda struggled to get into Mississippi Goddamn because of its live recording but now I understand its intent better. It’s just one of those songs that you have to be there live to grasp its power.

[@NotThatDanBrown]

Love this one. It's regularly on my playlist. Very moving.

[@sapphic.flower]

So cool and refreshing to see you talk about other forms of art!

[@bouchralkhou5063]

so proud of u 😢❤

[@seanramsdell4117]

Glad I suggested this to the Recording Registry :)

[@azuraselenite]

Amazing video. Immediatyly gonna listen to the song.

[@oscarlaz2711]

I watched this video in my tent at my student encampment. I adore nina simone and her music and I wish people knew more. Please of you're reading this listen to "why?(the king of love is dead)" live at the Westbury music fair and what I genuinely belive is the most incredible song anyone had ever sang her version of "house of the rising sun" live at the village gate.

[@MiguelGómez-d6c]

Great video! I'm here to sincerely recommend an example from across the atlantic, from my country, Spain, hoping to give some universal view to te movement. A bit old, but irm recommend "L'estaca" from the catalan (spanish) singer Lluis Llach. It's a protest song facing a fascist dictatorship, who wasn't afraid to kill sistematicly. The song it's also attached to the regional national identity. I hope you like it!

[@refugeinthewind]

I was there. I remember where I was when my very young mind turned the corner, each death, each shock, each protest, each conflagration...this video made me cry AND lifted me up. Merci, merci beaucoup, mon petit frere...

[@thesmilingmercenary937]

If you’ll like another under appreciated protest song, and the one where she said what she really thought imo listen to Pirate Jenny.

[@SharonThoboisluvtolive]

Increasing my faith 🙏 🙌 ✨️ IN breath survival together in truth unfettered heals NOW!!!

[@sacrebleu2665]

love nina simone am so glad ur shedding light to her gem of a discography for a new generation. however i must point out hinds hall is pronounced HEENDS hall sorta like hind in "hinder". named after the palestinian 5 yo child that witnessed the murd3r of her family who were fleeing the bombing. her screams stilll echo my mind. she stayed in that vehicles next to the d3ad body of her family pleading for 3 hrs to be saved before losing connection. the aid workers that went to rescue her also lost contact and for 12 days there was no trace. then they found the child along with the rescuers sh0t to death by the IDF. SHOT and killed a CHILD. aimed a gun at a pleading child hiding in a vehicle with the intent to kill. not one shot. but riddled the vehicle with holes. with US-manufactured weapons and justifications.

[@mlijah2730]

I just listened to this for the first time! It really spurred me

[@jfm4708]

Alabama by Coltrane is also a response to some of the events mentioned in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXq9eXacdr2CmJIsi=r090jn_BdcpjsVmX

[@elizabethslayton3534]

How amazing, thank you

[@jano7228]

funkier than a mosquitos tweeter is Nina Simone’s best song

[@ПолуживойАпломб]

I never leave comments but i want to thank you for making this video. As a Ukrainian I can't enpathise enough how important voices in a form of art and support are. We need to scream about injusties or sing about injustie, because most of the worst times only the feeling that your pain is shared can keep you from breaking

[@nicolej615]

Thank you❤

[@johnpaulsylvester3727]

NGL, I thought this video was gonna be about “(Why?) The King of Love Is Dead.”

[@cht2162]

Bless you for this.

[@VIK_1903]

Get ready to get shadowbanned like his music video...

[@KelleyGreenEcstasy]

Nina is an unfortunate victim of the new internet. Her best concert videos use to be easy to find about 10 years ago. Now half of it is just buried under strange fruit and feelin good.

[@carlgranados7106]

She was so great

[@احمدعبدالله-ض6ط4ه]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@ainaaina4505]

Love this

[@kitengski4395]

NINA CRIED POWER!

[@THE9MUSE]

So much respect ❤

[@ZvilgantisKailis]

For me it is easy. No politics, no conspiracy. Just 2 minutes and 14 seconds of pure unrefined joy. Felix - Don't You Want Me (1992).

[@beitophfongfu]

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!

[@avivgol2942]

i'm sorry what is this thing called palestine?

[@hamarabhai78]

​@@avivgol2942 just go away

[@bouchralkhou5063]

@@avivgol2942 r u demented ?

[@camille-bettinaatkinson6412]

He even ends the New Zealand premiere performance with "That's It!" A tour de force. Boy does politics make for strange bedfellows....

[@Bow503]

I love a good protest song sung by her: mr. Backlash. Or Earth Song and They don't really care about us by Michael Jackson

[@boocchihitori4450]

GODDAMN

[@BeeWhistler]

I mean, the title has to be part of why it didn’t get circulated. That’s a pretty strong swear to some of us. Outside of that, it needs to be heard and I’m sorry she regretted the song, because you just didn’t hear people laying out the facts like that. There’s a point where a campaign of cruelty has gone on so long while people politic about intervening that you just want to hear someone shout things as they are. No more dancing lightly around it, just stop hurting people in the name of whatever stupid thing you think justifies the oppression and murder of regular human beings who only want to go on being human beings in peace and freedom. Why is that such a challenge?

[@_sistersbrothers]

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[@rickyn4104]

Homecoming better

[@tommymanuel8687]

I wonder what she'd think at the state everythings at now. 😂

[@Infinitesimal-ho7it]

Still too slow.

[@mariamali7380]

from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[@itaylevin4555]

So literally calling for genocide for jews is fine. Get informed. Learn what that means. Learn what intifada means. You are siding with a terrorist organization!

[@itaylevin4555]

So literally calling for genocide for jews is fine. Get informed. Learn what that means. Learn what intifada means. You are siding with a terrorist organization!

[@ShineMin-ig3cj]

from the river to the sea Palestine will be free

[@yoavgriver]

When Nina Simone sang Mississippi Goddamn, no part of it supported mass rape and terrorism; Macklemore's song does. Pretty big difference.

[@rashidapittman8513]

Macklemore’s song does not support rape nor terrorism. It a protest song against the zionest and extremely racist state of Israel who is literally causing genocide and the mass murder of the Palestine people.

[@alpotap]

Fantastic work! You went from covering great art to supporting our executioner's fan club. Nina sang about you yet you don't see it

[@damianitamarwayne1447]

comparing the situation of afro-americans and the way it shows through the art of Nina Simone's to the protests for hamas ? that is really insulting for the african american community

[@Eleanor_Rigby1966]

Was just about to comment that, totally agree

[@barakasher45]

Lol keep believing Israeli media then ...

[@barakasher45]

Both of side is oppressed by white colonizers ....

[@ethereal5963]

It takes a special kind of moron to not realise that the fight against injustice does not end at afro-americans.

[@rebelliocross519]

Genocide in Gaza? Get informed!

[@jfu5222]

What would you call it then? It's not a war, it is the inevitable consequence of colonial settlement, apartheid rule, and religious intolerance.

[@missilemedic]

What is it when 15,000+ children are killed by a foreign country's military?

[@antoinepetrov]

​@@jfu5222You mean the centuries-old religious intolerance and prosecution by Muslims of every other religion? Or you mean that it's a genocide against the "innocent people" who publicly execute gay people?

[@rebelliocross519]

@@jfu5222 You choose to believe Hamas? They tell sinds 7 october 30.000 people died. And that includes of natural causes and of Hamas hands as well! The IDF says 12000 of them are Hamas fighters. But when it was 100% civilians, 30.000 of the 2 million 'Palestinians' it would be not a genocide. It is nonsense. You're a fool! you're sheep following the other sheep, wake up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2G7YmSglKlsb8k Next to that it can not be apartheid when 20% of the people in Israel are muslims with normal rights. Apparently those 'Palestinians' are a different kind of people. Can it be that you can find that out in a history book? Maybe? And yes it is religious intolerance, but from the muslim-side. Yes read what islam teaches their followers. Read what kind of example mohamet gave to the muslims: TERRORISE the unbelievers. Exactly what those 'Palestinians' did and still keep on doing.

[@rebelliocross519]

@@jfu5222 You choose to believe Hamas? They tell sinds 7 october 30.000 people died. And that includes of natural causes and of Hamas hands as well! The IDF says 12000 of them are Hamas fighters. But when it was 100% civilians, 30.000 of the 2 million 'Palestinians' it would be not a genocide. It is nonsense. You're a fool! you're sheep following the other sheep, wake up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2G7YmSglKlsb8k Next to that it can not be apartheid when 20% of the people in Israel are muslims with normal rights. Apparently those 'Palestinians' are a different kind of people. Can it be that you can find that out in a history book? Maybe? And yes it is religious intolerance, but from the muslim-side. Yes read what islam teaches their followers. Read what kind of example mohamet gave to the muslims: TERRORISE the unbelievers. Exactly what those 'Palestinians' did and still keep on doing.

[@G1NG_54]

Ngl if it took Macklemore to make you love Nina Simone… might want to rethink some shi

[@krehnah7541]

why?

[@G1NG_54]

@@krehnah7541 u really want me to name a 100 reasons why you should know/love Nina that has nothing to do with macklecorn?

[@catherineyoung9645]

No shi!

[@slckrqn]

NGL but it's more than a little stuck up to judge how and why anyone comes to discover a piece of art.

[@G1NG_54]

sorry i find it lame af that it took a corny white dude for you to appreciate one of the greatest music artist of the civil rights era. also this comment was made before the title of the video changed....

[@_sistersbrothers]

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[@philsophkenny]

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