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I don’t wanna fight / But I won’t apologize for doing what’s right [Lin on the Today Show and CBS This Morning]
Was that a tweet that you sent in the heat of the moment or do you still stand by that?
“The only reason that [tweet] made news is that most of the time my Twitter feed is full of dad jokes and videos of dogs and pictures of my son playing with trains. I really do my best to be the silver lining in the world, because the world is how it is.
It’s unprecedented language from me. But it’s unprecedented to have the President of the United States attack the victims of a natural disaster. I’ve never seen that before. So those were the only words I had to express my feelings on that. When have we ever seen that?
That was not an impulsive tweet. Those were the only words I had left, and I’m a guy who puts words together for a living. They’re all I had available to me to express my reaction to his attack on the people of Puerto Rico.”
The award-winning playwright said it was important that the song not only raise awareness, but have a life of its own.
“I also wanted to make it as catchy as any other song I’d write,” he said. “It’s for a good cause but I want it to spread on its own.”
Much of the new track’s lyrics are the names of the 78 towns in Puerto Rico. Miranda said he was inspired by the frantic calls on social media from those on the island who were hoping to hear something about the towns, cut off from communication, where loved ones were.
“What I saw on my Facebook feed – and I’m sure a lot of other Latinos feel the same way – was this roll call of towns. ‘Has anyone heard from Isabela? ‘Has anyone heard from ‘San Juan?’ ‘My grandmother is in Lares,’” Miranda said. “If I can manage to put all 78 towns into a lyric for this song and then use the song for fundraising relief, that’s something we can all get behind.”
CBS also posted a short video of journalist David Begnaud (whose coverage from Puerto Rico has been vital and praised by the Mirandas) talking to Lin about the song and the island.
“At minimum [Puerto Rico] needs the same response that Irma got, the same response that Harvey got in terms of federal aid, federal help. I have seen nothing but amazing giving and compassion on behalf of the American people and people all over the world. We need the governmental response to be commensurate with that.”
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I don’t wanna fight / But I won’t apologize for doing what’s right [Lin on the Today Show and CBS This Morning]
Was that a tweet that you sent in the heat of the moment or do you still stand by that?
“The only reason that [tweet] made news is that most of the time my Twitter feed is full of dad jokes and videos of dogs and pictures of my son playing with trains. I really do my best to be the silver lining in the world, because the world is how it is.
It’s unprecedented language from me. But it’s unprecedented to have the President of the United States attack the victims of a natural disaster. I’ve never seen that before. So those were the only words I had to express my feelings on that. When have we ever seen that?
That was not an impulsive tweet. Those were the only words I had left, and I’m a guy who puts words together for a living. They’re all I had available to me to express my reaction to his attack on the people of Puerto Rico.”
The award-winning playwright said it was important that the song not only raise awareness, but have a life of its own.
“I also wanted to make it as catchy as any other song I’d write,” he said. “It’s for a good cause but I want it to spread on its own.”
Much of the new track’s lyrics are the names of the 78 towns in Puerto Rico. Miranda said he was inspired by the frantic calls on social media from those on the island who were hoping to hear something about the towns, cut off from communication, where loved ones were.
“What I saw on my Facebook feed – and I’m sure a lot of other Latinos feel the same way – was this roll call of towns. ‘Has anyone heard from Isabela? ‘Has anyone heard from ‘San Juan?’ ‘My grandmother is in Lares,’” Miranda said. “If I can manage to put all 78 towns into a lyric for this song and then use the song for fundraising relief, that’s something we can all get behind.”
CBS also posted a short video of journalist David Begnaud (whose coverage from Puerto Rico has been vital and praised by the Mirandas) talking to Lin about the song and the island.
“At minimum [Puerto Rico] needs the same response that Irma got, the same response that Harvey got in terms of federal aid, federal help. I have seen nothing but amazing giving and compassion on behalf of the American people and people all over the world. We need the governmental response to be commensurate with that.”
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