,” is personal and contemplative—and it’s the kind of inner work that inspires her activism in the world. Deeply influenced by her Quakerism, Newcomer’s music reflects an inclusivity and a call to “lean in toward the light” that offers an inspirational soundtrack for social justice movements.
In terms of music and the world, I keep coming back to music. There’ve been a lot of times in this history when the going got tough and I thought about walking away, never from music but maybe from the music business, and it always called me back because I see music as something really essential for human beings—music with message and music with meaning. I do think it changes the world. That’s why music is so dangerous sometimes.
The song, “The Point of Arrival,” is about sometimes how it takes a while to get to the place where you can start. And there’s a lot of work that happens. It’s kind of the work before the work, to get to the place where now you can start, and that doesn’t mean you’ve arrived at some end point. It means you’ve arrived at the place where you can step forward again in a new way.
I think right now we’re getting this overwhelming amount of information about the worst of human nature. From every screen. In such volume. There’s a thought that conflict sells, that salacious sells, that shocking sells. Focusing on the worst we can be is something we get so much of. Everywhere I go I meet people who default to kindness. I meet people who are working in all kinds of ways to reach across dividing lines.
I don’t think of hope as being for the faint of heart. Hope isn’t gossamer. Sometimes I think we think of hope in a Hallmark card kind of way. I don’t see hope like that at all. Hope is gritty. Hope is daily. It means getting up in the morning and trying again to make the world a better place, and then the next day we do it again, and then the next day you’re really disappointed, and then you still do it again.
I think we’re always living in the Beautiful Not Yet, but just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. I may not see the fruit from the trees I plant, but I’m planting them anyway. The new album is really contemplative and personal. Of course, in the feminist movement, we’ve always said the personal is political. How do you think about an album like this as something political?
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