Grimes has revealed in a new interview that one of her songs, ‘California’, was written while she was “cosplaying” as Taylor Swift.While speaking to K-pop girl group aespa for Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians series, Grimes and the group exchanged their thoughts on technology and AI in music and more. aespa’s Giselle asked Grimes how she came up with the sounds of her 2015 songs ‘California’ and ‘Easily’, adding that she loves both tracks.“‘California,’ I think I was just doing Taylor Swift cosplay, but it’s also vaguely about how the media is obsessed with portraying you as this troubled soul or something,” Grimes said in response to Giselle’s question. “I don’t know if you guys get that the same way in your media.”Elsewhere in the interview, Grimes was asked by aespa member Ningning if she was preparing for a new album.
Black Cat bar in Silver Lake is California historic landmark
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Shortly after midnight on Jan. 1, 1967, as balloons dropped from the ceiling to mark the New Year at the Black Cat, undercover Los Angeles police officers, who were waiting for the right moment to pounce.
Moments later, they did, ripping holiday decorations from the wall, beat and arrested 14 people at the popular Silver Lake gay bar. Six people were booked and eventually charged with lewd conduct because they were kissing.
Six weeks later, on Feb. 11, hundreds of demonstrators picketed in front of the Black Cat and demanded the Los Angeles Police Department stop attacking and arresting gay people. Protestors carried signs that read “End Illegal Entrapment,” “Peace in Silver Lake” and “Police Lawlessness Must Be Stopped.”
While the Black Cat protest didn’t change Los Angeles police policy toward the gay community, it was one of the first public demonstrations by the gay community against police brutality. It predates the Stonewall Rebellion in New York and is one of the earliest protests for gay rights in Southern California.
Demonstrators protest outside The Black Cat bar in Silver Lake on Feb. 11, 1967, approximately six weeks after Los Angeles police officers conducted a violent raid at the venue on Jan. 31, 1966. Photo: ONE Archives at USC Libraries.
The landmark Black Cat demonstration — along with numerous others in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and across the country in the mid-1960s — helped launch the gay civil rights movement.
The Black Cat was recognized last week as the first California historical landmark that honors LGBTQ+ history.
It’s designated California Historical Landmark #1063.
“It’s an honor that we still remember what has happened because if we don’t remember, it can revert back to the way it was,”
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