Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Stream / Buy "TBT" - artsandcrafts.lnk.to/LaForce
Catch La Force On Tour - laforceband.com
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Director: Aaliyeh Afshar (instagram.com/aaaaliyeh/)
Camera Operators: Damien Priest & Max Taeuschel
Editor: Max Taeuschel
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La Force is Ariel Engle, vocalist and newest member of Broken Social Scene, whose acclaimed 2017 album Hug of Thunder is marked by her enchanting lead vocals on "Stay Happy" and "Gonna Get Better." The music of La Force is beautiful nocturnal pop, layering seductive melodies over restrained electronics, lead beautifully by Engle's undeniable voice. Shaped with Warren Spicer of Plants & Animals, and featuring members of Suuns, Patrick Watson, and Broken Social Scene.
Initially called Bangra Bouge. Based on a two-chord progression as most of my songs are. It’s all about the bounce. It’s a ‘leave me alone’ song. Feeling Disconnected from the overly ‘connected’ world and culture. Also about how we shape and create memory. Our memory is what becomes real to us about the past. If we Throw Back Thursday our lives than we can not only invent our present and future we can rewrite the past.
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LYRICS:
Looking back at you
Didn’t want to read the poster
See you at the post show
You can tell me what’s real
Everything you know
Disarming and sweet
Total ambition
My little pony
Getting into position
Didin’t want, didn’t hear what you said
Got caught late nights up in your head
Profile looking back and you
Which is the counterfeit
Which one is true
Din’t want to hear what you said
Oh I guess it’s that time again
We’re throwing back so let’s mark the occasion
Each minute of your life a sentimental decoration
Everyone, No one wants to be forgiven
You all
Everyone, No one wants to be forgotten
You all
Look at you now
Parading in your defect
If I touch your gown
I’ll be searching for a lose thread
High up in your self-made tower
You’re bright lights
Eating up the power
Didn’t want hear what you said
I’m not what he or she said
Keep me out of the feed out of the haters
No tearful inroads or sentimental favours
Me my more my memories
Never gonna forget
Stream / Buy "TBT" - artsandcrafts.lnk.to/LaForce
Catch La Force On Tour - laforceband.com
__________________________________________________________________
Director: Aaliyeh Afshar (instagram.com/aaaaliyeh/)
Camera Operators: Damien Priest & Max Taeuschel
Editor: Max Taeuschel
__________________________________________________________________
La Force is Ariel Engle, vocalist and newest member of Broken Social Scene, whose acclaimed 2017 album Hug of Thunder is marked by her enchanting lead vocals on "Stay Happy" and "Gonna Get Better." The music of La Force is beautiful nocturnal pop, layering seductive melodies over restrained electronics, lead beautifully by Engle's undeniable voice. Shaped with Warren Spicer of Plants & Animals, and featuring members of Suuns, Patrick Watson, and Broken Social Scene.
Initially called Bangra Bouge. Based on a two-chord progression as most of my songs are. It’s all about the bounce. It’s a ‘leave me alone’ song. Feeling Disconnected from the overly ‘connected’ world and culture. Also about how we shape and create memory. Our memory is what becomes real to us about the past. If we Throw Back Thursday our lives than we can not only invent our present and future we can rewrite the past.
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LYRICS:
Looking back at you
Didn’t want to read the poster
See you at the post show
You can tell me what’s real
Everything you know
Disarming and sweet
Total ambition
My little pony
Getting into position
Didin’t want, didn’t hear what you said
Got caught late nights up in your head
Profile looking back and you
Which is the counterfeit
Which one is true
Din’t want to hear what you said
Oh I guess it’s that time again
We’re throwing back so let’s mark the occasion
Each minute of your life a sentimental decoration
Everyone, No one wants to be forgiven
You all
Everyone, No one wants to be forgotten
You all
Look at you now
Parading in your defect
If I touch your gown
I’ll be searching for a lose thread
High up in your self-made tower
You’re bright lights
Eating up the power
Didn’t want hear what you said
I’m not what he or she said
Keep me out of the feed out of the haters
No tearful inroads or sentimental favours
Me my more my memories
Never gonna forget
![Gord Downie - The Secret Path [Official Film Trailer]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZGYnQx2R4nE/mqdefault.jpg "Gord Downie - The Secret Path [Official Film Trailer]
STATEMENT BY GORD DOWNIE
Ogoki Post, Ontario
September 9, 2016
Mike Downie introduced me to Chanie Wenjack; he gave me the story from Ian Adams’ Maclean’s magazine story dating back to February 6, 1967, “The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack.”
Chanie, misnamed Charlie by his teachers, was a young boy who died on October 22, 1966, walking the railroad tracks, trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to walk home. Chanie’s home was 400 miles away. He didn’t know that. He didn’t know where it was, nor how to find it, but, like so many kids - more than anyone will be able to imagine - he tried. I never knew Chanie, but I will always love him.
Chanie haunts me. His story is Canada’s story. This is about Canada. We are not the country we thought we were. History will be re-written. We are all accountable, but this begins in the late 1800s and goes to 1996. “White” Canada knew – on somebody’s purpose – nothing about this. We weren’t taught it in school; it was hardly ever mentioned.
All of those Governments, and all of those Churches, for all of those years, misused themselves. They hurt many children. They broke up many families. They erased entire communities. It will take seven generations to fix this. Seven. Seven is not arbitrary. This is far from over. Things up north have never been harder. Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.
I am trying in this small way to help spread what Murray Sinclair said, “This is not an aboriginal problem. This is a Canadian problem. Because at the same time that aboriginal people were being demeaned in the schools and their culture and language were being taken away from them and they were being told that they were inferior, they were pagans, that they were heathens and savages and that they were unworthy of being respected – that very same message was being given to the non-aboriginal children in the public schools as well… They need to know that history includes them.” (Murray Sinclair, Ottawa Citizen, May 24, 2015)
I have always wondered why, even as a kid, I never thought of Canada as a country – It’s not a popular thought; you keep it to yourself – I never wrote of it as so. The next hundred years are going to be painful as we come to know Chanie Wenjack and thousands like him – as we find out about ourselves, about all of us – but only when we do can we truly call ourselves, “Canada.”
http://secretpath.ca/")
