Holly Henderson has release her first new music of 2020! Recorded with her band in the UK during quarantine – each member recorded their parts and sent them in for collaboration.
On the single, Holly said –
“I wrote History Repeats the week George Floyd was murdered. There was this bubbling tension rising, in the media, online, and among friends. It just seemed like the whole world was holding its breath because we all realised simultaneously after the Rodney King riots, we’re watching it happen all over again. Literally nothing had changed in nearly 30 years and people were just ready to blow.
I’d been thinking about my role in the time of a revolution – how I could be productive in my own way as a pale skinned artist. As a songwriter, I know my place is best served in commentary, storytelling and solidarity, hence History Repeats. Simplistically, it’s just about what I see, what I’m learning, what scares me, and why I still have hope. I can’t speak for anyone else, really, and I’m not trying to. But I’d like to think ‘we’re not coming very far in my lifetime after all’ is something a lot of us have thought about in the last few months and years.
Contributing to the conversation is something the whole band felt deeply about, even if we couldn’t physically protest, travel, even get in a studio together. The recording of the song very much mirrored that. I wrote the song, sent a rough demo out to everyone with some basic arrangements, and everyone wrote/recorded their own parts until it became something so much richer with our ideas combined together, and Luke’s production gave it a home and a feeling that is entirely ours.
On top of that, it was important that we payed this message and our intentions forward, so we decided on giving any money made to the AAPF #SayHerName campaign. The campaign raises awareness of the stories of Black women and girls who have endured racist police violence, and supports their families.”
All proceeds from the sale of the single will go to the AAPF #SayHerName campaign.