Help me find video of female musician from U.S. - she donated usual costs to charities

[IndyOp]

around the world instead of making a fancy video...

Okay, long ago someone posted a video by a female singer/songwriter who created a "rough" music video -- with just her singing -- instead of creating a typical music video that would have cost 10,000's of dollars and she donated the money to charities around the world and included a list of donations and photos in her video.

Anybody recall who this was? I've thought a lot about it and would really like to find it.

Thanks!

[stellanoir]

1. Sarah McLachlan's

"World On Fire"

Hold on I'll dig for a link.

on edit- http://www.worldonfire.ca/

OMG- I never spell her name properly

[SteppingRazor]

2. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzoNInZ2ClQ

[IndyOp]

3. Thank You! I show videos before my classes start and

I try to mix in videos with meaning with popular videos - and I love this one!

Thank You!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[SteppingRazor]

5. No prob! Stellanoir's just-posted link is the official one, though.

I just thought she might have some trouble finding it with that crazy spelling of McLachlan. :silly:

[stellanoir]

7. LOL I always mess up the spelling of her name for some weird reason

and I fixed it.

The spelling didn't effect my search because I remembered it was posted on this bookmarked thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1300118

which has some of the most powerful writing I've seen in years.

[SteppingRazor]

11. Thanks for that link!

The tone of Ensler's piece is oddly reminiscent of the Melissa Etheridge song "I Need to Wake Up." Who knows? Etheridge might even have drawn inspiration from the Ensler piece, written it as a response to, or something.

Anyway, it's not to my specific tastes, but I certainly agree, powerful words there. :thumbsup:

[stellanoir]

13. You are very welcome

But your comment about your specific tastes made me curious.

Can you sight an example of those tastes ?

Just wondering.

[SteppingRazor]

14. Oh, it's nothing really.

The whole post-feminist, Gaia-preaching-to-the-ignorant-masses thing often irks me. Which is not to take away from a well-written song, or a well-written essay. It's just not to my tastes. My own writing admittedly draws on throwback, overly masculine sources (Hemingway, Kerouac, that guy in my avatar picture, etc.), so I suppose it's only natural that I'd find writing like that of Ensler and Etheridge in this case to be a bit, well, preachy for lack of a better word.

[stellanoir]

15. Okay thanks

now I understand better what you meant.

I never saw Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" but read a sampling of reviews. The thing that came through that "Dear America" piece was that she had just come off a conference in Turkey where she learned of what was really going on in Iraq and it just was so strikingly heartfelt.

I just tried to find a link for Etheridge's performance at Live Earth just to see if we're thinking of the same song. It doesn't seem to be available on their site any longer, probably because they're selling DVD's of the event now or something.

My tastes are fairly eclectic. I'm really all over the map and I know what your saying in terms of post-feminist preachy stuff. Some of us over compensate from time to time. In truth, I'm really more deeply concerned about post-humanist preachy stuff at this point. Yikes.

I try my best to keep my stuff as playful as possible when I can but don't always succeed in doing so.

Have you seen this one as yet ?

http://www.sedonadigitalarts.com/html/video_previews.html

It's very cool IMHO.

best.

[SteppingRazor]

16. Never seen that. Very cool!

:thumbsup:

[IndyOp]

8. Good deal - Thanks again! (n/t)

[IndyOp]

4. Thank You! I show videos before my classes start and

I try to mix in videos with meaning with popular videos - and I love this one!

Another DUer posted the YouTube link below, so you don't have to dig! :D

Thank You!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[IndyOp]

6. Great - Now I can see the list of donation recipients. Thank you!

I have the hardest time spelling Scottish names, too.

:hi:

[stellanoir]

9. My ethnicity is overwhelmingly Scottish to boot.

Yikes

[metis]

10. Sarah McLaughlin

I think she is Canadian.

[stellanoir]

12. I think so too.

on edit- Yup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_mclachlan she is.

[Beelzebud]

17. What a fantastic video!

Tears are streaming down my face, but I'm glad I watched it.

What a beautiful artist.

[stellanoir]

18. Yeah such acute disparity exists in this world.

Sarah's effort was masterful in demonstrating that sorry fact.

Having lived in LA years ago the excessive production costs were absolutely mind boggling.

A dear friend worked on a detergent commercial and the producers had flown in a "dirt specialist" from Texas who was paid over a grand an hour and given a hefty per diem.

I wondered how one possibly arrived at a place of being the arbiter and absolute authority of what truly qualified as true dirt.

If you want to see another powerful video, see the link on post #15 and you may smile instead of cry.

best

[stellanoir]

19. kickin'

'cause I feel we need more of these sort of efforts in the new year.

We can no longer rely on our governments alone IMHO.