{"id":3346,"date":"2016-12-19T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2016-12-19T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:49:57","slug":"song-of-the-day-kohinoorgasm-azaadi-is-freedom-is-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2016\/12\/19\/song-of-the-day-kohinoorgasm-azaadi-is-freedom-is-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Of The Day: Kohinoorgasm- &#8220;Azaadi Is Freedom Is Fate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KOHINOORGASM - Azaadi Is Freedom Is Fate\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuZNAjvhK7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My friend from KALX Berkeley impulsively took a bus to Colorado Springs, surprising me on this stressful start to the fourth week. We&#8217;ve spent most of the day sitting on my couch showing each other songs we&#8217;ve been into lately. Aside from the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u7AuUNrmdlk\">&#8220;Caught In A Butt Sandwich&#8221; by The Mangfather Bob Katz<\/a>, the best song she showed me happened to be by a kickass multiracial artist named Kohinoorgasm.\u00a0Kohinoorgasm is a bay area artist that used to DJ at KALX, now working as a solo artist. She strives to empower people of color through her music. The music video of &#8220;Azaadi Is Freedom Is Fate&#8221; \u00a0has an evident motif of hair, which Kohinoorgasm notes as a &#8220;distinct issue for femmes of color.&#8221; The song itself is an exploration of the concept of freedom, Azaadi meaning freedom in multiple levels. As a multiracial woman who identifies strongly with my Indian culture, I find Kohinoorgasm to be an empowering presence in the DIY music scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend from KALX Berkeley impulsively took a bus to Colorado Springs, surprising me on this stressful start to the fourth week. We&#8217;ve spent most of the day sitting on my couch showing each other songs we&#8217;ve been into lately. Aside from the classic &#8220;Caught In A Butt Sandwich&#8221; by The Mangfather Bob Katz, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-RY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}