Many artists are reacting to the decision of the American Supreme Court to question the right to abortion.
The Glastonbury Festival in the southwest of England, one of the biggest music festivals in the world, was an important stage for many of them this weekend.
The most remarkable performance remaining, without a doubt, that of Kendrick Lamar on stage.
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Dressed in a white shirt and wide black pants, the American rapper, very religious, wore a diamond crown of thorns on his head, evoking that worn by Christ on his way of the cross.
For the title
United In Grief
, the native of Compton, California surrounded himself with about twenty dancers, half dressed like him, the others decked out in a sort of red cape, all in a staging that seemed to do the allegory of good and evil.
“May God protect the rights of women”
It was at the end of his song
Saviour
, taken from his last album
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
, finished a cappella, that, his face bathed in blood, he chanted several times with his deep voice and more and more forte: "Godspeed for women's rights, they judge you, they judge Christ", which can be translated as "May God protect the rights of women, they judge you, they judge Christ", before suddenly letting go of the microphone and then leave the scene.
The dancers then froze in a painting reminiscent
of Leonardo da Vinci's
Last Supper .
The public then cheered the artist for a long time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his album
Damn
in 2017.
This benefit came two days after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the precedent Roe v.
Wade, which guaranteed the right of American women to have abortions throughout the federal territory.
Other singers spoke on the subject during this event.
We can note Billie Eilish and Lorde, Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen, Phoebe Bridgers, Kacey Musgraves, or even Megan Thee Stallion.