{"id":21674,"date":"2014-07-11T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21674"},"modified":"2017-03-30T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:49:06","slug":"watch-hurray-for-the-riff-raff-perform-on-letterman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-07\/watch-hurray-for-the-riff-raff-perform-on-letterman-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hurray For The Riff Raff Perform on Letterman Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0-650x364.jpg\" alt=\"Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0\" width=\"635\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0-650x364.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0-450x252.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hurray-For-The-Riff-Raff-The-Body-Electric-Live-On-Letterman-750x0.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we were away, one of our favorite finds of 2014, <strong>Hurray For The Riff Raff<\/strong>, performed <em><strong>The Body Electric<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>on the <strong>Letterman Show<\/strong>. \u00a0 As mentioned before we left, the song (from their spellbinding <em><strong>Small Town Heroes <\/strong><\/em>album) is leader <strong>Alynda Lee Segarra\u2019s<\/strong> rending response to the murder ballad.\u00a0 In the album\u2019s notes, the song is dedicated to the Indian woman gang-raped in 2012, <strong>Damini<\/strong>, making a recent link between violence and women, and the murder ballads\u2019 crimes-of-passion themes.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 <del>If you like what you see, you can catch a repeat of the episode on Letterman tonight<\/del>. Watch the official lyric video for the song below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_KvXteZkByE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Body Electric&quot; Lyric Video featuring Marissa Alexander\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEIBQ--GHvQ?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were away, one of our favorite finds of 2014, Hurray For The Riff Raff, performed The Body Electric\u00a0on the Letterman Show. \u00a0 As mentioned before we left, the song (from their spellbinding Small Town Heroes album) is leader Alynda Lee Segarra\u2019s rending response to the murder ballad.\u00a0 In the album\u2019s notes, the song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27064,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions\/27064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}