Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)”

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Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares a lyric video for “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive),” from their 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive. A memory box presented in the form of a sweeping song, Alynda Segarra revisits formative moments and childhood trips with family, as well as the community, grief, and passion they discovered when they decided to leave it all behind and never stop running. Peeing in the bushes while they wait to hop a freight train, lighting campfires on superfund sites, making moonlit love on an island of trash, shoplifting for food, and playing music with a barrel of freaks – their itinerant adventures serve as a reminder that there are always other ways to live, underlined by an urgent demand: “TEST YOUR DRUGS, REMEMBER NARCAN. There’s a war on the people, what don’t you understand?” Video directed and edited by Jeff Perlman.

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    Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)”

    Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares a lyric video for “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive),” from their 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive. A memory box presented in the form of a sweeping song, Alynda Segarra revisits formative moments and childhood trips with family, as well as the community, grief, and passion they discovered when they decided to leave it all behind and never stop running. Peeing in the bushes while they wait to hop a freight train, lighting campfires on superfund sites, making moonlit love on an island of trash, shoplifting for food, and playing music with a barrel of freaks – their itinerant adventures serve as a reminder that there are always other ways to live, underlined by an urgent demand: “TEST YOUR DRUGS, REMEMBER NARCAN. There’s a war on the people, what don’t you understand?” Video directed and edited by Jeff Perlman.