{"id":1217,"date":"2014-08-15T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowsuburbandeath.com\/2014\/08\/15\/funksoul-friday-tune-fight-the-power\/"},"modified":"2014-08-15T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T18:57:19","slug":"funksoul-friday-tune-fight-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Funk\/Soul Friday tune:  Fight The Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Isley Brothers - Fight The Power (Part 1 &amp; 2) (1975)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wO2ebiuV3hU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before Public Enemy yelled &#8220;Fight The Power&#8221; from hot New York streets, the Isley Brothers stepped aside from their run of romantic tunes to address some true street anthem.\u00a0 We used to shout this out or scrawl out the words on our Pee Chee folders in our post-Nixon anger, finding as much identity in this song as we did in our love blaxploitation heroes and Bruce Lee.\u00a0 We now channeled our youthful reserve to fighting the power of a whitewashed existence.<\/p>\n<p>Even if our resolve eroded, &#8220;Fight The Power&#8221; is loyal to its bass driving core.\u00a0 This is the Isley Brothers at its best, after an already long career churning out hit after hit.\u00a0 The longer their career, the bolder their music, like so many other soul artists of their generation.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Public Enemy yelled &#8220;Fight The Power&#8221; from hot New York streets, the Isley Brothers stepped aside from their run of romantic tunes to address&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=1217\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funk\/Soul Friday tune:  Fight The Power<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,33],"tags":[146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}