Tech elites who are looking for more than extra zeros in their bank statements are finding it in an unlikely place: so-called songversations, emotion-heavy gatherings that combine philosophical rap sessions with improvised music, run by a ukulele-strumming songstress who describes herself as a “heartist.”
“People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,”
The effect is vaguely akin to Joni Mitchell performing freestyle rap at Davos.
As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.]As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.
“It’s Burning Man in Chelsea,” one observer said.]“It’s Burning Man in Chelsea,” one observer said.
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The effect is vaguely akin to Joni Mitchell performing freestyle rap at Davos.Quoteukulele-strumming
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“People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,”
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As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.way to not be inclusive of those who do self-harm CHARLES
When his monologue wound down, Ms. Magic rose and began a Norah Jones-style ballad, picking up phrases from Mr. Eisenstein’s talk. “If we believed,” she sang in a soulful jazz scat, “that me, that me, that me and the river were the same, would it change my ways?”
Despite her wood-nymph aura, or maybe because of it, Ms. Magic has found herself in some button-down circles. In 2016, she performed at the Women Economic Forum in New Delhi and at a star-studded birthday party of her friend Ken Howery, a founder of PayPal, on Necker Island.
“I don’t know if you’d call this a breakthrough,” she said, “but I got Peter Thiel to sing along and Elon Musk to smile.”
As Ms. Magic likes to say, “We don’t sing to be good, we sing to be free.”
Andrew Hewitt, the creator of GameChangers 500, which ranks the world’s top “for-benefit” businesses, said he has “witnessed some of the headiest Silicon Valley titans be deeply touched through these experiences.”
“For people who live most of the time in their head,” Mr. Hewitt said, “this feels like magic.”
Ms. Magic is now extending her song beyond Silicon Valley, with a 10-city tour (a mix of private salons and public events, starting at $35) stretching from the summer solstice to the fall equinox.
“One of the reasons why I do what I do, and why I am, honestly, on this planet, is to show up with such a level of vulnerability and sincerity and authenticity, that it almost gives people permission to let it go for a little while,” she said.
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More like, White women and the men who put up with the bullshit because they want to get laid.
Do you guys just hate other people? Let people be themselves.
Do you guys just hate other people? Let people be themselves.You can be yourself, until yourself picks up a ukelele. Then I’ll hate you.
Do you guys just hate other people? Let people be themselves.Of course I hate other people. Why else would I make this thread. Fuck you.
Ukuleles are good fuck you
Of course I hate other people. Why else would I make this thread. Fuck you.