Some songs have what atomic scientists might call a long half-life. Who’d have guessed Journey’s early 80s AOR hit Don’t Stop Believing would have had an unlikely revival in the early 2010s? Or that Don’t Stop Me Now, a middling late 70s hit would become one of Queen’s biggest songs long after the band’s heyday.
So it is with You’re The Voice. It’s recently been used in an unofficial campaign video for Kamala Harris. But it’s far from the fist time it’s been repurposed for political ends – it was prominent in the Yes campaign for the Australia Indigenous Referendum campaign last year, but even prior to that has been used in campaigns for Australian state and federal elections and rather more contentiously was sung by Aussie anti-lockdown protestors during the Covid years.
