10 Bands Who Should Play President Donald Trump's Inauguration
2. Black Pimpin Jesus
Who They Are: Were they not from Johannesburg, this four-piece rock band might have encountered Marilyn Manson levels of controversy, which would’ve been undeserved because, name aside, BPJ are as inoffensive as they come. They play good time rock and roll, the kind you can imagine blasting from beach party speakers or being used in a car commercial.
Why They Should Play: Radiating optimism (Everything Is Okay) and pragmatism (Normal Is A Setting On A Washing Machine) in equal amounts, BPJ are the kind of band that a disunited America needs in 2017. Perhaps they could follow Rebecca Ferguson’s lead and agree to play on condition that they perform Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit.
A song about the lynching of African Americans, Strange Fruit was considered controversial in the early 20th Century, but Ferguson describes it as “a song that speaks to all the disregarded and downtrodden black people in the United States. A song that is a reminder of how love is the only thing that will conquer all the hatred in this world.”
TOP TRACKS: Everything Is Okay, Can’t Pretend