Last week, Tom Morello shared "Stand Up." The song features Shea Diamond, Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds, and the Bloody Beatroots. Now, he released a video to go with the song.
The "Stand Up" music video includes a montage of footage from protests from the 1960s Civil Rights Movement to today's Black Lives Matter.
Rolling Stone quotes Morello as a saying that he grew up in the "tiny lily-white, archly conservative town of Libertyville, Illinois." He narrated that when he was a kid, "someone hung a noose" in his family's garage. He described the "occasional n-word calling." He then noted that on June 6, a Black Lives Matter rally and march commenced in this same town, drawing "over 1,000 people." He then said, "It seems that the times, they are a'changin'."
That was when he reached out to Dan, and "conjured a slamming track" with The Bloody Beetroots. "Dan had sent back a completed vocal," he narrated. Then, they got Shea Diamond, a Black transgender woman, and activist.
Morello will donate proceeds from the track to organizations fighting for racial justice: Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp, NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
Interscope Records and KIDinaKORNER would donate an amount equal to the artists' royalties from streams of the track for the next three years.
Watch Tom Morello's "Stand Up" video here.
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