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One Media® presents "BM2BLMWTF?!" by Trash Juice (Jazz Fusion Psychedelic Rock Electronica Music Video)

"BM2BLMWTF?!"

Barney Miller theme, juxtaposed with Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun' alluding to Black Lives Matter and the present day police state...

With this music video, One Media® entered Trash Juice into the Steemit Beat Battle League Season 2 Round One ... the theme for this #beatbattle round being 'Greatest Movie or TV Theme Songs' ... Well, other than a few binge watches, Trash Juice hasn't habitually watched TV in ... well, much longer than anyone at One Media® would care to admit ...

One cool beat the Trash Juice project cared to reminisce upon was the theme from 'Barney Miller' ... Besides that, the theatrical production of that show had some rather noble themes, including celebrating diversity and reconciling differences between various ethnicity, genders, and sexual orientations, as well as painting a rather humanist portrait of characters whom could otherwise, and indeed often elsewhere had been, at best stoic, but often intimidating authoritarian figures.

Trash Juice recognized the namesake leading roll character has initials 'BM', and as Black History Month in the United States approached, one would consider what progress society has made since the airing of Barney Miller ... insert 'L' as if Barney's middle initial ... local police forces have become militarized, and 'inclusiveness' has expanded ... for those entering the disenfranchised class...

Hence the juxtaposition of Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun' into the Barney Miller theme. Jimi, himself a person of mixed African and Native American race, appealed to a large audience of mostly white young persons to whom his LIFE VERY MUCH MATTERED, and thus like the show Barney Miller, worked to reconcile differences in society. As one may interpret the metaphor Machine Gun as a reference to militarized police as 'the guns' for 'the machine' it seemed most appropriate to scroll the last paragraph of the famous Mario Savio speech , "Bodies upon the Gears", repeated here:

There is a time
when the operation
of the machine
becomes so odious,
makes you so sick
at heart, that you
can't take part;
you can't even
passively take part,
and you've got to put
your bodies upon the
gears and upon the
wheels, upon the
levers, upon all
the apparatus,
and you've got to
make it stop.
And you've got to
indicate to the
people who run it,
to the people who
own it, that unless
you're free,
the machine will
be prevented from
working at all!

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Happy listening!
Zig