Tituss Burgess Blasts Trump in Bubbling New Political Anthem “45”
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Tituss Burgess is taking a stand against No. 45 himself, Donald Trump, in a new bubbling political anthem against hopelessness and an accompanying music video.
The new track, simply titled “45,” is the first single off Burgess’ EP Saint Tituss, which is set for a July 26 release.
Burgess co-wrote the single with Daniel J. Watts, who’s also featured on the track.
The song “45” comes out of the hopelessness the Emmy-nominated Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star has continued to see since Trump took office.
“Everywhere I look, people are losing hope,” he said in a statement. “We are letting this man in the highest office of our country dictate our lives when he works for us. We’ve gotten used to his shenanigans. This is not normal.”
So his new song, he says, is a wake-up call for the hopeless and marginalized to realize that they are the hope to change the world.
The video kicks off with a tuxedoed man tickling the ivories at a grand piano before cutting to a server swiveling us into a room full of men and women in suits, and with Trump-esque blue eyes painted over their closed eyelids.
What stand out, though, are the two men—Burgess himself and Watts—who are tied to pillars by their wrists.
The server pours glasses of red wine (Pinot noir, we presume?), and the suits raise their glasses in the air before the screen turns black and the number “45” is scrawled across it in white.
The song picks up with a burst of electric guitar as the suits begin to dance with gloved hands in the air, as if they’re being controlled by a puppet master. We see Burgess’ face staring back at us as he’s strait-jacketed in a barren, white-walled, prison-like room.
But his words are more uplifting than his surroundings.
