{"id":1042,"date":"2015-10-23T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?post_type=releases&#038;p=1042"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:05:31","slug":"tooji-strijdt-tegen-homofoob-geweld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/uncategorized\/tooji-strijdt-tegen-homofoob-geweld\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooji fights against homophobic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">* Automatically translated *<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">After his controversial single <em>Father<\/em> brings singer Tooji now again a song in which he marketed a theme: homophobic violence and bullying.<\/p>\n<p>It was a while <strong><em>Say Yeah<\/em><\/strong>or unclear, the successor of <em><strong>Father<\/strong><\/em>, would come true. The Norwegian did a job on his <em>fan base<\/em> to contribute to the funding of the new single and clip. Tooji started a campaign through <strong><em>crowdfunding<\/em><\/strong>. The previous single caused quite a fuss in Norway and elsewhere. The singer came out of the closet and had a video clip in steamy gay sex with a priest &#8230; in a church. By this hoopla he lost even his job as presenter of the Norwegian <em>Junior Melodi Grand Prix.<\/em> Of course also a lot of support and praise Tooji got for his fight against discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Also the clip of <em>Say Yeah<\/em> shows a thought-provoking story. Loitering bullying a young gay and <strong>kill<\/strong> him after a fierce fight. The gang leader flight. At the end of the clip shows the leader himself to be homosexual. Next quote at put the clip: &#8216; tooji<em>All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people. &#8216;<\/em> Only those who are 18 years of age or older is the clip via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AxcKL799XVg\">Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the song or buy through <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/be\/album\/say-yeah-single\/id1048368441\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.spotify.com\/album\/3EyzsgzURnah6qS4vkBPeR?play=true&#038;utm_source=open.spotify.com&#038;utm_medium=open\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his controversial single &#8216; Father &#8216; brings singer Tooji now again a song in which he marketed a theme: homophobic violence and bullying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[499,566,649,647,648,39,650,40,646],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-father","tag-gay","tag-homo","tag-noorwegen","tag-norway","tag-release","tag-say-yeah","tag-single","tag-tooji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}