Anonymous ID: 2c21dc May 4, 2022, 10:42 p.m. No.16212968   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3136 >>3146

>>16212962

>https://www.nme.com/news/music/van-morrison-appears-to-hit-out-at-northern-ireland-health-minister-on-new-single-dangerous-3216656

Van Morrison appears to address Northern Ireland health minister on new single ‘Dangerous’

Robin Swann is suing the musician over his past comments on COVID

>2nd May 2022

Van‘s new track ‘Dangerous’ appears to reference the musician’s ongoing feud with Robin Swann, the Northern Ireland Minister Of Health.

 

Last November, Swann filed a defamation lawsuit against Morrison over comments he had made regarding COVID-19 earlier in 2021.

 

During a pre-show dinner event in Belfast in June, Morrison branded Swann “very dangerous” in a response to Swann criticising him for his anti-lockdown stance in a 2020 op-ed, in which he said Morrison’s words “will give great comfort to the conspiracy theorists”.

 

On Friday (April 29) Morrison released ‘Dangerous’, the third single from his upcoming 43rd studio album ‘What’s It Gonna Take?’, which is due to arrive on May 20 via Exile Productions/Virgin.

 

The almost-eight-minute number includes the lines: “Somebody said I was dangerous/ I said something bad, it must have been good.” Later, Morrison tells this listener that he “was just looking for the evidence” and asks for “proof“.

 

The title of the single and the repeated use of “dangerous” could be interpreted as alluding to Morrison and Swann’s dispute, with the word being at the centre of the pair’s row. The artist’s quest for “proof“, meanwhile, is perhaps a nod to his previous controversial claims that scientists were “making up crooked facts” during the pandemic.

 

Per his official website, the forthcoming ‘What’s It Gonna Take?’ “features fifteen new Van Morrison compositions that collectively reflect the artist’s indefatigable drive to record and perform live in front of audiences.”

 

The album also includes the songs ‘Fighting Back Is The New Normal’, ‘Fodder For The Masses’, ‘Can’t Go On This Way’ and ‘Damage And Recovery’.

 

In response to Swann taking legal action last year, representatives for Morrison said their client “regrets that Mr Swann considered it necessary to issue proceedings” and that they were “disappointed by the publicity that surrounds the issue”.

 

Regarding a planned defence for the singer, they said: “Mr Morrison asserts within that defence that the words used by him related to a matter of public interest and constituted fair comment.”

 

van morrison free speech anti lockdown songs

Van Morrison. CREDIT: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images

Last summer saw Morrison end his legal challenge against the Northern Irish government over its ban on live music after COVID restrictions were dropped in the country.

 

Back in August 2020, the singer criticised the “pseudo-science” of socially distanced gigs and subsequently shared a series of anti-lockdown songs, including ‘No More Lockdown’ which saw him compare the government to “fascist bullies”.

 

Swann then said: “It’s actually a smear on all those involved in the public health response to a virus that has taken lives on a massive scale. His words will give great comfort to the conspiracy theorists – the tinfoil hat brigade who crusade against masks and vaccines and think this is all a huge global plot to remove freedoms.”

Anonymous ID: 2c21dc May 4, 2022, 11:14 p.m. No.16213061   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>16212954

>16213000

hai·ku

NOUN

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables,

in three lines of five, seven, and five,

traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

>teh moar ewe gno, kek…

Anonymous ID: 2c21dc May 4, 2022, 11:42 p.m. No.16213136   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3146

>>16212968

>https://www.nme.com/news/music/van-morrison-appears-to-hit-out-at-northern-ireland-health-minister-on-new-single-dangerous-3216656

>Van Morrison appears to address Northern Ireland health minister on new single ‘Dangerous’

>Robin Swann is suing the musician over his past comments on COVID

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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6UQTLg91GU

For Clarity

>132,992 views | Jun 14, 2021

Outlining the current Government hypocrisy

Anonymous ID: 2c21dc May 4, 2022, 11:44 p.m. No.16213146   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>16212968

>>16213136

>For Clarity

>Outlining the current Government hypocrisy

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC2HXH8g44U

For Clarity Part 2

>50,091 views | Jun 15, 2021

Outlining the current Government hypocrisy.

Anonymous ID: 2c21dc May 4, 2022, 11:53 p.m. No.16213175   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Metropolis (1927 film)

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBnMCAIuQg

Metropolis (1927) full movie 1080p

>238,056 views | Aug 31, 2020

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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_movie)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang,[5][6] it stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre.[7] Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks.[8]

 

Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master. The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart".

 

Metropolis met a mixed reception upon release. Critics found it pictorially beautiful and visually powerful—the film's art direction by Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht draws influence from Bauhaus, Cubist and Futurist design,[9] along with touches of the Gothic in the scenes in the catacombs, the cathedral and Rotwang's house[3]—and lauded its complex special effects, but accused its story of naiveté.[10] H. G. Wells described the film as "silly", and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls the film's story "trite" and its politics "ludicrously simplistic".[3] The film's alleged Communist message was also criticized.[11]

 

The film's extensive running time also came in for criticism, and Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, with a large portion of Lang's original footage removed. Many attempts have been made since the 1970s to restore the film. In 1984 Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder released a truncated version with a soundtrack by rock artists including Freddie Mercury, Loverboy and Adam Ant. In 2001 a new reconstruction of Metropolis was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2008 a damaged print of Lang's original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina. After a long restoration process that required additional materials provided by a print from New Zealand, the film was 95% restored and shown on large screens in Berlin and Frankfurt simultaneously on 12 February 2010.