In a combination blog post/guest editorial/song launch, Suzanne Vega has previewed her new song "Daddy Is White" via the New York Times. It's a rough but interesting demo, decidedly lo-fi, complete with reverbed vocals. It's plain, clean and neat.
She waxes on the notion of tribes (somebody's been reading Seth Godin's book "Tribes," I'll bet) and how it ties in to her identity, being 'raised in a half-Puerto Rican family' and learning that her birth-father was 'English-Scottish-Irish.'
"If your daddy is white,
You must be white too.
When you look into the mirror
what comes looking back at you?"
Interesting concept, in the dawning of our post-racism age.
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