Local muso, Johnny Rock, is pledging his support for marriage equality with his guitar. The music identity filmed himself covering The Beatles’ Real Love and published it on social media The campaign promotes marriage equality with the goal being to drown out the hate on social media. Rock encourages musicians to overpower the hate with videos of themselves performing love songs. Monday musicians will be dropping the videos under the hashtag #lovesongsforequality.
This all came about as Johnny Rock (Pretty City) got sick of seeing hate about the marriage equality survey and is now doing something about it. To kick things off Rock has grabbed his guitar and some close friends to record The Beatles’ classic Real Love. He hopes more musicians will follow his lead and film their own love songs, both orginals and covers alike. This simple mission can help those in the community feeling vunerable and brighten their day.
“I’ve have many friends who have become really upset about the negativity out there. I’ve had friends deactivate their social media accounts because it was all getting too much. You can support your mates with likes and hearts all you want but there’s a point where even the strongest people start to break down. So as a muso I thought I could do something else to not only support marriage equality but maybe ease some of the pain out there.” – Johnny Rock
If you’re a musician (and even if you’re not) why not spread the love on social media? Spreading love can only do good amongst the hate. #lovesongsforequality
Watch Johnny Rock’s Real Love cover below.
Video shot by Sabine Brix, keys and recording by Dan Webb.
