{"id":30740,"date":"2024-10-30T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-drops-new-video-for-i-believe-as-part-of-their-we-are-hope-despite-the-times-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:02:30","slug":"r-e-m-drops-new-video-for-i-believe-as-part-of-their-we-are-hope-despite-the-times-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-drops-new-video-for-i-believe-as-part-of-their-we-are-hope-despite-the-times-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M. drops new video for &#8216;I Believe&#8217; as part of their We Are Hope Despite the Times campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-30\/M_REMWeAreHopeDespiteTheTimes_091724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>UMG Recordings\/Craft Recordings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> is hoping to bring a little optimism to the final days of the presidential election.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band just released a lyric video for their <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Lifes Rich Pageant<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0track \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ftacKGmn6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>I Believe<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d in conjunction with their ongoing We Are Hope Despite the Times campaign. The band released a compilation album of the same name back in September to urge folks to get involved in the political process.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The video features the song\u2019s lyrics written on a man\u2019s T-shirt, and the images are inspired by frontman <strong>Michael Stipe<\/strong>&#8216;s handmade designs from the Fables of the Reconstruction tour.\u00a0They&#8217;re also modeled after the politically themed T-shirts\u00a0Stipe wore\u00a0during <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VoXuba_uaNo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>the band&#8217;s acceptance speech<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0when\u00a0\u201cLosing My Religion\u201d\u00a0won Video of the Year at the 1991 MTV VMAs. Back then\u00a0the shirts called out causes that were important to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI believe the choices in this election could not be more stark or more important,\u201d Stipe shares. \u201cPlease vote and encourage everyone you know to do the same\u2014that is how we win in 2024 and I believe we can do it!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stipe has been very vocal about his support for Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> and <strong>Tim Walz<\/strong>\u2019s run for the White House, performing at Harris\/Walz rallies in Pittsburgh and Athens, Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ftacKGmn6Q\" title=\"R.E.M. - I Believe (Official Lyric Video) - VOTE 2024\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMG Recordings\/Craft Recordings R.E.M. is hoping to bring a little optimism to the final days of the presidential election.\u00a0 The band just released a lyric video for their Lifes Rich Pageant\u00a0track \u201cI Believe,\u201d in conjunction with their ongoing We Are Hope Despite the Times campaign. The band released a compilation<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/r-e-m-drops-new-video-for-i-believe-as-part-of-their-we-are-hope-despite-the-times-campaign\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}