20 Greatest Songs That Said F*** You To Authority

5. Mississippi Goddamm - Nina Simone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBiAtwQZnHs This 1964 protest tune by the hugely talented, wonderfully sassy Nina Simone was banned in several southern states in the US. A pivotal song in Simone's career, it certainly complicated her relationship with the white establishment while simultaneously securing her place as an ally of the civil rights movement. The song is introduced by Simone as a 'show tune', perhaps to get her audience to temporarily drop their guard. However, after a brief opening where the song does indeed sound like a show tune, Simone begins to vent her frustrations at the white establishment, citing Tennessee and Alabama - two southern states that would be (and had been) major battlegrounds in the fight for civil rights. Simone then turns her attention to Mississippi, a state which had earned a reputation as a place of cruelty and intolerance of African-Americans. Many activists were lawfully abused and tortured in the state, some even ending up dead. Goddamm, Nina made a good point.
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